{"id":33694,"date":"2026-03-17T01:03:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T05:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=33694"},"modified":"2026-03-11T23:53:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T03:53:39","slug":"top-o-the-mornin-to-ya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/top-o-the-mornin-to-ya\/","title":{"rendered":"top ‘o the mornin’ to ya"},"content":{"rendered":"
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an old brass lens – part of a swap across the Atlantic<\/p><\/div>\n

Toronto<\/strong>. As we near St Pattie’s day, this is a suitable post. It is based on a follow up article titled “A SECOND LOOK …”. Editor Lansdale expands on photographer John Turner reporting a lens swap between Dr Mike Robinson and Se\u00e1n MacKenna of London, England.<\/p>\n

This swap returned to Toronto a lens used by Irishman John Turner when he emigrated to the big smoke to create studio portraits. The lens has an added signature, “J.G. Turner, Toronto, March 17, 1859<\/i>.”<\/p>\n

Mike, Mr Graham Garrett and Se\u00e1n did further research on Turner and the lens.<\/p>\n

Editor Lansdale begins his report, “For a further development\u00a0of the Turner story we turn to [Dr] Mike Robinson of Century\u00a0Darkroom<\/a> in Toronto. He lectures on the daguerreian and ambrotype processes at Ryerson University [now TMU] as well as the George Eastman House in Rochester.<\/p>\n

“Se\u00e1n MacKenna of London, England read about\u00a0Mike making daguerreotypes\u00a0in Toronto so e-mailed him\u00a0hoping to gain information\u00a0about an early Toronto image\u00a0maker.” …<\/p>\n

Members read all of this brief article in the issue 26-5 pdf on the free members-only DVD\/thumb drive and discovered the roles played by the trio of researchers. You can easily join by following ‘Membership’ above and at right. Address any questions to member@phsc.ca<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Toronto. As we near St Pattie’s day, this is a suitable post. It is based on a follow up article titled “A SECOND LOOK …”. Editor Lansdale expands on photographer John Turner reporting a lens swap between Dr Mike Robinson … Continue reading →<\/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":[2017,403,401,605],"class_list":["post-33694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-article","tag-journal","tag-lens","tag-membership"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33694","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=33694"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33698,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33694\/revisions\/33698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}