{"id":27629,"date":"2023-12-26T01:03:36","date_gmt":"2023-12-26T05:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=27629"},"modified":"2023-12-27T01:44:21","modified_gmt":"2023-12-27T05:44:21","slug":"boxer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/boxer\/","title":{"rendered":"boxer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_27630\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/boxer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27630\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27630\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/boxer-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/boxer-sm.jpg 225w, https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/boxer-sm-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-27630\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">box camera in a lot from a recent auction<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. And here we are once again at an official boxing day! To commemorate this event, at left is an old film box camera from a recent auction lot.<\/p>\n<p>Box cameras are the basic camera design: a fixed focus lens with a stop fast (small) enough to give \u00a0fixed focus from a few feet to infinity (or using a couple of waterhouse stops to vary the aperture size) ; a sensitive media; a rigid means to correctly separate the media and lens; and a way to point\/frame the shot.<\/p>\n<p>A slow shutter speed(s) and daylight make sure the exposure is enough to give a decent negative. Steady hands and\/or tripods were a great help in the days before optical stability mechanisms and fast media.<\/p>\n<p>More elaborate camera designs allowed adjustments for aperture, speed, and focus as well as a means to view\/frame the subject, measure distance to the subject and possibly collapse the camera or lens for carrying and storage. Or even focal length. Piece of cake!<\/p>\n<p>Of course those who grew up in this digital era and its smartphones don&#8217;t see any need for collapsing means, light gauging, etc, etc. Just press and send &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Now off to the store for traditional boxing day bargains!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. And here we are once again at an official boxing day! To commemorate this event, at left is an old film box camera from a recent auction lot. Box cameras are the basic camera design: a fixed focus lens &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/boxer\/\">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":[398,1261,105,14,534],"class_list":["post-27629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-camera","tag-design","tag-digital","tag-film","tag-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27629","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=27629"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27668,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27629\/revisions\/27668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}