{"id":28730,"date":"2024-05-19T01:03:32","date_gmt":"2024-05-19T05:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=28730"},"modified":"2024-05-18T01:10:10","modified_gmt":"2024-05-18T05:10:10","slug":"and-a-sida-camera-with-that-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/and-a-sida-camera-with-that-please\/","title":{"rendered":"and a sida camera with that, please"},"content":{"rendered":"
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the tiny SIDA minicam from the late 1930s<\/p><\/div>\n

Toronto<\/strong>. \u00a0In the late 1930s, the ‘minicam’ revolution was well under way. The craze centred on cameras using 35mm ‘movie film’ or similar \u00a0sized paper backed roll film. An enlarger was a ‘must’ for even pocket sized prints.<\/p>\n

A small German company got into the act with its Sida line<\/a>. Basically a tiny box camera, the Sida produced one inch square frames (bigger than half frame but smaller than a Leica image). The earliest versions were made in Germany with a metal casting. Later models were plastic in various colours, made in various countries. The \u00a0camera arrived on the eve of WW2 which perhaps sparked the manufacture in other European countries.<\/p>\n

The camera took 8 exposures on a custom roll of film. It used an f\/8 35mm meniscus lens and a primitive T (time) and I (instantaneous of unknown speed) shutter.<\/p>\n

One of our late members acquired an early metal German-made model. \u00a0You can read the background of this particular camera in our journal, Photographic Canadiana<\/em>, issue 30-2 which is on the DVD disk given to all members (the lens is mis-stated as f\/1.8 since the lens marking is 1:8 for f\/8). \u00a0Join today (see right hand side-bar) and read about this tiny marvel back in the day when film was king.<\/p>\n

Pop down to our spring fair on the 26th of May<\/a> – you may even spot one – or another goodie – for your collection!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Toronto. \u00a0In the late 1930s, the ‘minicam’ revolution was well under way. The craze centred on cameras using 35mm ‘movie film’ or similar \u00a0sized paper backed roll film. An enlarger was a ‘must’ for even pocket sized prints. A small … 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":[816,398,400,4601],"class_list":["post-28730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-box-camera","tag-camera","tag-fair","tag-miniature-camera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28730","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=28730"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28734,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28730\/revisions\/28734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}