{"id":30344,"date":"2024-12-22T01:03:27","date_gmt":"2024-12-22T05:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=30344"},"modified":"2024-12-21T02:56:52","modified_gmt":"2024-12-21T06:56:52","slug":"frame-subject-from-afar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/frame-subject-from-afar\/","title":{"rendered":"frame subjects from afar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_30347\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/SFTOO.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30347\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30347\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/SFTOO-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-30347\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leitz SFTOO sports finder with distance adjustment for 20cm lens<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. \u00a0 In early 1981, at one of our fairs, I bought an odd looking viewfinder from a Mr Hyman. Actually, he had a box of Leica stuff that I picked up. Most items were for use with \u00a0Telyt 20cm lens (not included).<\/p>\n<p>There were a few copies of each item. The 200 mm viewfinder (SFTOO) is an enclosed black frame sports finder with a distance adjustment from 10 feet to infinity.<\/p>\n<p>First made in 1938, the viewfinder survived WW2 and was marketed to around 1968. The examples I have are like new and likely post war (accessory foot and distance ring are both satin chrome).<\/p>\n<p>Drop by one of our events &#8211; you may even find such a viewfinder for a Leica or other 35mm camera!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Toronto. \u00a0 In early 1981, at one of our fairs, I bought an odd looking viewfinder from a Mr Hyman. Actually, he had a box of Leica stuff that I picked up. Most items were for use with \u00a0Telyt &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/frame-subject-from-afar\/\">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":[398,401,4681,2163],"class_list":["post-30344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-camera","tag-lens","tag-telyt-200mm","tag-viewfinder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30344","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=30344"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30348,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30344\/revisions\/30348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}