{"id":30357,"date":"2024-12-24T01:03:55","date_gmt":"2024-12-24T05:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=30357"},"modified":"2024-12-22T01:05:41","modified_gmt":"2024-12-22T05:05:41","slug":"revisiting-an-italian-viewer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/revisiting-an-italian-viewer\/","title":{"rendered":"revisiting an Italian viewer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_30358\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/GeorgieViewer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30358\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30358\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/GeorgieViewersm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-30358\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An Italian 20x and 40x viewer for a focussing slide<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. The <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/al-whos-little-italian-buddy\/\">summer of 2019<\/a>, I did a post on an Italian knock-off of a focussing slide viewer. The Al Who [L WHOO] mentioned in the above link was the code name for a Leitz 30x magnifier designed for the focusing slide.<\/p>\n<p>As noted about five years ago, the San Giorgio company in Genoa made a short lived Leica copy and accessories. Time and the short period of marketing these products make them very scarce today.<\/p>\n<p>Looking at the viewer, the construction quality is very much Leitz-like and a tribute to the famous maker. The Italian camera and accessories were all post-war, sold for those few years before the Famous M-series of bayonet mount Leicas took over from the original screw-mount gear. This change likely contributed to the demise of San Giorgio copies &#8211; that and the snobbery for German made Leicas.<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted, that such high power magnifiers focussed on the arial view. The \u00a0focussing slides had a clear glass spot in the centre of the ground glass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. The summer of 2019, I did a post on an Italian knock-off of a focussing slide viewer. The Al Who [L WHOO] mentioned in the above link was the code name for a Leitz 30x magnifier designed for the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/revisiting-an-italian-viewer\/\">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":[398,1128,616],"class_list":["post-30357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-camera","tag-close-up","tag-viewer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30357","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=30357"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30361,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30357\/revisions\/30361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}