{"id":31339,"date":"2025-04-29T01:03:53","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T05:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=31339"},"modified":"2025-04-28T00:02:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T04:02:24","slug":"not-up-in-smoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/not-up-in-smoke\/","title":{"rendered":"not up in smoke"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_31340\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Leitz-chimney.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31340\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31340\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Leitz-chimney-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"141\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-31340\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left 5x magnification LVFOO. Right 5x magnification OTVXO<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. Leitz came up with a mirror box housing that converted its famous Leica rangefinder to an SLR for close-ups and telephoto shots. The first version (Visoflex I) came with the 5x vertical magnifier (LVFOO). A 45 degree 4x magnifier for eye level use was also offered (PEGOO).<\/p>\n<p>A second much slimmer version, the Visoflex II (and later a more refined Visoflex III) came with a right angle 4x magnifier. A separate 5x vertical magnifier (&#8216;chimney&#8217;) was also offered (OTVXO). Other high end camera and accessory makers offered similar mirror boxes, \u00a0bellows, and &#8216;chimneys&#8217;; some for the Leica and some for their own cameras.<\/p>\n<p>Visit our 2025 events and see what items add to your collection! All events are listed under &#8216;PHSC EVENTS&#8217; at right. Up next is our spring auction on May 4th. Any questions can be answered by Clint at <a href=\"mailto:fair@phsc.ca\">fair@phsc.ca<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Note: The title of this post is a riff on the Cheech and Chong 1978 movie (a send up on the weed generation) &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Up_in_Smoke\">Up in Smoke<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. Leitz came up with a mirror box housing that converted its famous Leica rangefinder to an SLR for close-ups and telephoto shots. The first version (Visoflex I) came with the 5x vertical magnifier (LVFOO). A 45 degree 4x magnifier &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/not-up-in-smoke\/\">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":[4725,61,63,1491,4726],"class_list":["post-31339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-chimney-magnifier","tag-leica","tag-leitz","tag-lvfoo","tag-otvxo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31339","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=31339"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31343,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31339\/revisions\/31343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}