{"id":30304,"date":"2024-12-18T01:03:30","date_gmt":"2024-12-18T05:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=30304"},"modified":"2024-12-17T00:50:36","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T04:50:36","slug":"take-a-gander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/take-a-gander\/","title":{"rendered":"take a gander"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_30307\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/gander.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30307\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30307\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/gander-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"173\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-30307\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">geese in lower left corner of c 1908 photo from glass plate<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. I grew up seeing photo prints made by indifferent folk from negatives exposed in cheap Kodaks. In the late 1950s, I bought a new Exakta and finally thought I could see good resolution in the tiny 1&#215;1.5 inch negatives.<\/p>\n<p>In the early 1970s, an interest in photographic history prompted me to buy Gernsheim&#8217;s wonderful opus on the &#8220;History of Photography&#8221;. Looking through the massive book, I was surprised and delighted at the fine resolution shown in the old processes, especially prints from large glass-plate negatives.<\/p>\n<p>A few years after I joined the PHSC, I picked up a few 4&#215;5 glass plates at one of our fairs from <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/landscapes-streetscapes-and-history\/\">Marlene Cook<\/a>. And sure enough when the plates were magnified, fine detail showed up! Those of you who collect photos, glass plates, etc should take a closer look at the details in the images you have (especially dags and plates). You may be pleasantly surprised!<\/p>\n<p>NB the link for Marlene is to a post I made about 1 1\/2 years ago. The enlarged portion of the plate is the same and clicking on the thumbnail shows the full pate and the enlarged portion magnified.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. I grew up seeing photo prints made by indifferent folk from negatives exposed in cheap Kodaks. In the late 1950s, I bought a new Exakta and finally thought I could see good resolution in the tiny 1&#215;1.5 inch negatives. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/take-a-gander\/\">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":[339,220,4680,316],"class_list":["post-30304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-photographs","tag-photos","tag-plates","tag-prints"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30304","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=30304"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30317,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30304\/revisions\/30317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}