{"id":30318,"date":"2024-12-19T01:03:17","date_gmt":"2024-12-19T05:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=30318"},"modified":"2024-12-19T13:49:04","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T17:49:04","slug":"come-here-you-little-rascal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/come-here-you-little-rascal\/","title":{"rendered":"come here, you little rascal &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_30319\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/RASAL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30319\" class=\"wp-image-30319 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/RASAL-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-30319\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">1930s sports finder RASAL (RASUK with RAMET frame for 10.5 and 13.5 cm lenses)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. \u00a0&#8230; I pictured my mother saying as I ran out of the kitchen. When I was born, the movie short &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Our_Gang\">Our Gang<\/a>&#8216; or &#8216;the little Rascals&#8217; was popular in movie houses.<\/p>\n<p>Leitz began marketing the Leica mid 1924. The tiny camera became very popular quickly and various lenses and accessories were made and marketed.<\/p>\n<p>To simplify ordering, especially for off shore agents, Leitz developed a code word for each product allowing economy and some consistency in the order process via telegraph. For example, the sports viewfinder shown here was a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ebay.ca\/itm\/284036858683\">RASAL<\/a> which combined the viewfinder (RASUK) and a separate &#8216;screen&#8217; for 10.5 cm and 13.5 cm lenses (RAMET). The viewfinder and mask were first made in black enamel and later chrome (-CHROM added to end of code). Availability started in 1933 and ran into WW2.<\/p>\n<p>The eye piece could be moved up\/down for subject distance while the front screen could be rotated 180 degrees for different lenses. I found my copy in like-new condition with the original red box in June, 1980.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. \u00a0&#8230; I pictured my mother saying as I ran out of the kitchen. When I was born, the movie short &#8216;Our Gang&#8216; or &#8216;the little Rascals&#8217; was popular in movie houses. Leitz began marketing the Leica mid 1924. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/come-here-you-little-rascal\/\">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":[738,398,61,63,2163],"class_list":["post-30318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-accessory","tag-camera","tag-leica","tag-leitz","tag-viewfinder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30318","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=30318"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30336,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30318\/revisions\/30336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}