{"id":33047,"date":"2025-12-28T01:03:30","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T05:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=33047"},"modified":"2025-12-25T00:00:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T04:00:53","slug":"ghost-of-fairs-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/ghost-of-fairs-past\/","title":{"rendered":"ghost of fairs past &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_33048\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/fair.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33048\" class=\"size-full wp-image-33048\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/fair-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"121\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-33048\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blair Detective Camera offered by Walter Shean<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. &#8230; with apologies to Dickens and his short story, &#8220;A Christmas Carol&#8221;. Our spring 2000 fair offered fodder for a photo essay in issue 26-2 of our journal. The camera at right is just one of the items offered that year.<\/p>\n<p>Editor Lansdale describes it thusly: &#8220;Walter Shean displayed (at left) the 4&#215;5 Blair Detective Camera\u00a0with the front panel lowered to reveal the lens, reflex finders, and\u00a0the open door at back for loading film holders. For asking price of\u00a0$975 you also get a ground glass, two holders and the original\u00a0instruction sheet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Members read and saw the photos from the article &#8220;Finds and Features at the <span class=\"s1\">Spring Sale &#8230;&#8221; in the issue 26-2 pdf file on the free members-only DVD\/memory stick. See above\/at right to join. Email questions to <a href=\"mailto:member@phsc.ca\">member@phsc.ca<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>We are setting up our 2026 PHSC Events &#8211; first up is the auction on January 25, 2026. Details will be posted here a few weeks beforehand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. &#8230; with apologies to Dickens and his short story, &#8220;A Christmas Carol&#8221;. Our spring 2000 fair offered fodder for a photo essay in issue 26-2 of our journal. The camera at right is just one of the items offered &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/ghost-of-fairs-past\/\">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":[2017,34,675,279],"class_list":["post-33047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-article","tag-cameras","tag-events","tag-lenses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33047","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=33047"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33051,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33047\/revisions\/33051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}