{"id":24393,"date":"2022-11-01T01:03:45","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T05:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=24393"},"modified":"2022-10-31T23:42:28","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T03:42:28","slug":"first-step-to-a-finer-picture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/first-step-to-a-finer-picture\/","title":{"rendered":"first step to a finer picture &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_24394\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Kodak-films-Popular-Mechanics-May-1946.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24394\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24394\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Kodak-films-Popular-Mechanics-May-1946-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"122\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24394\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">a Kodak ad from the May, 1946 Popular Mechanics magazine<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. And you thought it was the photographer and his skill (or according to some naive people, the camera). But the FILM? Or the maker of the FILM? REALLY?<\/p>\n<p>In a May, 1946 ad, Kodak assured all the wanna-be photographers that indeed it was not only the RIGHT film, but the RIGHT KODAK film that made all the difference! Sadly for Kodak but happily for the rest of us, it was the photographer and his skill set that made the difference, be he professional or a talented amateur!<\/p>\n<p>A big thank you for our good friend, George Dunbar, who bravely shared this link from the days when Kodak was the mighty king of photography! Today, we have tons of smartphones, each with its own digital camera taking 1,000s of images with neither film nor discrete camera. Most of these images are taken by people who vaguely, if \u00a0at all, recall the impact of the once mighty Kodak organization on photography.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. And you thought it was the photographer and his skill (or according to some naive people, the camera). But the FILM? Or the maker of the FILM? REALLY? In a May, 1946 ad, Kodak assured all the wanna-be photographers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/first-step-to-a-finer-picture\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1944],"tags":[973,398,14,21],"class_list":["post-24393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-advertisement","tag-camera","tag-film","tag-kodak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24393"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24397,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24393\/revisions\/24397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}