{"id":28378,"date":"2024-04-03T01:03:13","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T05:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=28378"},"modified":"2024-04-01T01:29:12","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T05:29:12","slug":"the-camera-that-wasnt-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/the-camera-that-wasnt-there\/","title":{"rendered":"the camera that wasn’t there"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Stirn camera courtesy of Brian Coe’s CAMERAS by Crown Publishers, 1978<\/p><\/div>\n

Toronto<\/strong>. The production and sale of dry plates brought with it a different kind of camera, \u00a0one that could be handheld (by steady hands) or even worn rather than requiring a special support like a tripod.<\/p>\n

These cameras, especially those that did not look like a camera<\/a>, were known as detective cameras<\/a>. The original idea centred around the turn of the previous century say 1880 to 1920. Illustrated at left is a sketch from the delightful Brian Coe book simply titled CAMERAS<\/a> and dated 1978.<\/p>\n

During WW2, subminiature cameras like the chewing gum package size Minox renewed interest – in what was then called spy cameras.<\/p>\n

Today every smartphone has an even tinier built-in camera, and houses galore are protected by so called ‘security cameras’ (and door bell cameras) that can seem invisible unless you know were and what to look for.<\/p>\n

NB: This post title is a riff on a movie I saw decades ago called, “The Man Who Never Was<\/a>“. In particular post title is based on a poem in the film’s preamble: Antigonish<\/a>\u00a0[anti gone ish].<\/p>\n

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Toronto. The production and sale of dry plates brought with it a different kind of camera, \u00a0one that could be handheld (by steady hands) or even worn rather than requiring a special support like a tripod. These cameras, especially those … Continue reading →<\/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":[34,4424,105,14,1952,2334],"class_list":["post-28378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-cameras","tag-detective","tag-digital","tag-film","tag-security","tag-spy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28378","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=28378"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28382,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28378\/revisions\/28382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}