{"id":26296,"date":"2023-07-07T01:03:26","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T05:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=26296"},"modified":"2023-07-06T01:20:31","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T05:20:31","slug":"clarifying-a-radical-new-process-and-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/clarifying-a-radical-new-process-and-camera\/","title":{"rendered":"clarifying a radical new process and camera"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_26297\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/9x8-Polaroid-Popular-Mechanics-Dec.-1953.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26297\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26297\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/9x8-Polaroid-Popular-Mechanics-Dec.-1953-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"119\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-26297\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A working model of the Polaroid 95 camera using 9&#215;8 film (Dec 1953)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. Many of us recall the iconic <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Instant_camera\">Polaroid Land camera of 1948<\/a> and its amazing &#8216;picture-in-a-minute&#8217; black and white in-camera printing process. The basic idea dates back to pre-war Europe (1939). \u00a0Successful retail marketing occurred with this \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/camera-wiki.org\/wiki\/Polaroid_Land_Model_95\">American-made Edwin \u00a0Land camera and film<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The late Bill Belier (past president of the PHSC) mentioned to me that Land&#8217;s camera was an instant sellout up here as well. Five years after the first cameras were made available, a scaled up model using the larger reconnaissance film was introduced for camera retailers to help them explain how the radically new process worked in practice.<\/p>\n<p>My thanks to George Dunbar who happened to see this brief article in the December, 1953 issue of Popular Mechanics and shared it with me.<\/p>\n<p>PS. Consider visiting our <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/remember-this-date-mate-july-16th-2023\/\">annual \u00a0Trunk Sale<\/a> (free) July 16th, 2023 &#8211; you may find an instant camera or other gem for your collection or use!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. Many of us recall the iconic Polaroid Land camera of 1948 and its amazing &#8216;picture-in-a-minute&#8217; black and white in-camera printing process. The basic idea dates back to pre-war Europe (1939). \u00a0Successful retail marketing occurred with this \u00a0American-made Edwin \u00a0Land &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/clarifying-a-radical-new-process-and-camera\/\">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":[398,1099,301,388],"class_list":["post-26296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-camera","tag-edwin-land","tag-polaroid","tag-trunk-sale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26296","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=26296"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26302,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26296\/revisions\/26302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}