{"id":31469,"date":"2025-05-14T01:03:55","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T05:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=31469"},"modified":"2025-05-11T23:48:47","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T03:48:47","slug":"this-is-a-strange-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/this-is-a-strange-one\/","title":{"rendered":"this is a strange one &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_31470\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/strange.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31470\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31470\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/strange-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"158\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-31470\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">a strange Victorian camera (?) up for auction in the UK<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. My friend and associate at the PHSC, Les Jones (sports photographer and author) sent me an email the other day, saying, some one was auctioning off , &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-saleroom.com\/en-gb\/auction-catalogues\/eastbourne-auction-rooms\/catalogue-id-srea10130\/lot-6442557b-d03b-4acb-b482-b2d800fd8567?utm_source=auction-alert&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=auction-alert&amp;utm_content=lot-view-link&amp;queryId=cdfb1082a88b60f8f7e030e6d263efef\">A VICTORIAN MAHOGANY FLOOR STANDING STUDIO CAMERA WITH A HINGED BULLSEYE LENS 22CM IN DIAMETER<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>Shown at left is just one view of this unusual camera (perhaps it is a projector, or an enlarger). The auction takes place live later this month. Click on the link above for details &#8211; who knows, the gadget may fit your collection. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>NB. The title of this post is a riff on a 1960s song called, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_OM3fszkD7w\">You are a Strange one<\/a>&#8220;, Sung here by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marianne_Faithfull\">Marianne Faithful<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. My friend and associate at the PHSC, Les Jones (sports photographer and author) sent me an email the other day, saying, some one was auctioning off , &#8220;A VICTORIAN MAHOGANY FLOOR STANDING STUDIO CAMERA WITH A HINGED BULLSEYE LENS &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/this-is-a-strange-one\/\">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":[399,398,1450,348],"class_list":["post-31469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-auction","tag-camera","tag-projector","tag-studio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31469","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=31469"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31473,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31469\/revisions\/31473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}