{"id":24453,"date":"2022-11-09T01:03:02","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T05:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=24453"},"modified":"2022-11-08T23:21:34","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T03:21:34","slug":"shooting-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/shooting-star\/","title":{"rendered":"shooting star"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_24454\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/The-Meteor-Popular-Mechanics-May-1947.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24454\" class=\"wp-image-24454 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/The-Meteor-Popular-Mechanics-May-1947-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24454\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ad for the Meteor camera &#8211; a $15 wonder according to its maker, Universal Camera Corporation<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. This May, 1947 ad from Popular Mechanics touted the <a href=\"http:\/\/camera-wiki.org\/wiki\/Universal_Meteor\">Meteor<\/a> &#8211; a cheap 620 camera designed like a 35mm camera &#8211; as ideal for &#8220;photo-eager folk who want to start on\u00a0the streamlined path to a great photo-future&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The maker goes to great lengths to list the &#8216;professional features&#8217; of this camera &#8211; and its low price! Aside from Kodak&#8217;s high end models, US camera makers mostly went for the low hanging fruit &#8211; and a good bottom line over design or quality.<\/p>\n<p>The Meteor hung around briefly but McKeown&#8217;s 11th (2001-2) shows a clean camera was worth 5 to 15 dollars to collectors before the digital era trashed prices on most cameras. We owe a big thanks to my good friend George Dunbar for sourcing and sharing this post war bit of photo history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. This May, 1947 ad from Popular Mechanics touted the Meteor &#8211; a cheap 620 camera designed like a 35mm camera &#8211; as ideal for &#8220;photo-eager folk who want to start on\u00a0the streamlined path to a great photo-future&#8221;. The maker &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/shooting-star\/\">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":[4226,972,973,398,14,327,4033],"class_list":["post-24453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-4226","tag-ad","tag-advertisement","tag-camera","tag-film","tag-nyc","tag-universal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24453","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=24453"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24460,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24453\/revisions\/24460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}