{"id":27153,"date":"2023-10-27T01:03:25","date_gmt":"2023-10-27T05:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=27153"},"modified":"2023-10-24T23:40:04","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T03:40:04","slug":"a-darkening-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/a-darkening-day\/","title":{"rendered":"a darkening day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_27154\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/solar1912.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27154\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27154\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/solar1912-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"154\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-27154\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">watching and capturing the 1912 total solar eclipse in Lisbon<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. Today, we are rather blas\u00e9 about solar eclipses. but how were they handled over a century ago? A dark shield was still needed to protect eyes, but the cameras as shown here were far different. This scene of a pending total eclipse of the sun was taken back in 1912 in Lisbon.<\/p>\n<p>You can see bright shadows so the eclipse has not yet happened. The most interesting fellow is the one with the huge field camera extended for a long focus lens, and firmly steadied with a tripod, a little &#8216;table&#8217; on top of the tripod and two weights as anchors on the floor to keep the legs from slipping.<\/p>\n<p>The two folk at left appear to be using a dark filter glass while one of the two at right makes notes and the other peers into some kind of device. The photo is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/HistoryOfPhotography1826\">here on Facebook<\/a> (make sure you are member, or join up for free) and was <a href=\"https:\/\/restosdecoleccao.blogspot.com\/2014\/11\/eclipse-do-sol-em-1912.html?fbclid=IwAR1bDxQj1esHFSMTCO4bJoU-a9-HMUEq_HDreQRqOlesWFBy_9SYxtnDd7Y\">copied from this site<\/a>. English translation of the Portuguese is offered.<\/p>\n<p>A thank you is in order for my good friend George Dunbar for finding this interesting site\/photo and sharing it with us. NB. There are a few Facebook &#8216;channels&#8217; devoted to the history of photography including our own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. Today, we are rather blas\u00e9 about solar eclipses. but how were they handled over a century ago? A dark shield was still needed to protect eyes, but the cameras as shown here were far different. This scene of a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/a-darkening-day\/\">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":[4464,1009,4463,613,3887,804],"class_list":["post-27153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-eclipse","tag-field-camera","tag-lisbon","tag-photo","tag-sun","tag-tripod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27153","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=27153"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27158,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27153\/revisions\/27158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}