{"id":26198,"date":"2023-06-21T01:03:46","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T05:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=26198"},"modified":"2023-06-19T15:43:07","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T19:43:07","slug":"the-why-and-wherefore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/the-why-and-wherefore\/","title":{"rendered":"the why and wherefore"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_26199\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/M3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26199\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26199\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/M3-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"153\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-26199\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">M3 courtesy of Ken Rockwell &#8211; please visit his web site<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. Hands down, Leitz had a winner on its hands when they launched the Leica M series with the flagship M3 model in 1954. \u00a0The M series covered the issues professionals had with the screw mount Leicas.<\/p>\n<p>Design of the new series began decades earlier before WW2. \u00a0 Prototypes like the Leica IV are in the Leitz museum. You can see more online at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kenrockwell.com\/leica\/m3.htm\">Ken Rockwell&#8217;s site<\/a> or read books like \u00a0Dennis Laney&#8217;s 1992 opus, &#8220;Leica Collectors Guide&#8221; published in England by Hove.<\/p>\n<p>Note, the title of this post is borrowed from Gilbert &amp; Sullivan&#8217;s operetta, HMS Pinafore. The song,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=j0yDej3tRRg\"> <em>Never mind the Why and Wherefore<\/em><\/a> is sung here by \u00a0the English National Opera.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. Hands down, Leitz had a winner on its hands when they launched the Leica M series with the flagship M3 model in 1954. \u00a0The M series covered the issues professionals had with the screw mount Leicas. Design of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/the-why-and-wherefore\/\">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":[61,63,4367,3726],"class_list":["post-26198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-leica","tag-leitz","tag-m-series","tag-rockwell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26198","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=26198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26201,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26198\/revisions\/26201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}