{"id":34012,"date":"2026-04-24T01:03:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T05:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=34012"},"modified":"2026-04-19T20:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T00:27:09","slug":"wow-thats-wide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wow-thats-wide\/","title":{"rendered":"Wow! that&#8217;s wide"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_34013\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Panon-lot-12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34013\" class=\"size-full wp-image-34013\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Panon-Lot-12-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"131\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-34013\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">lot 12 at our May 3 auction &#8211; a c1952 Panon camera with case<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. Over the years, various cameras were offered with a moveable septum and lens that (or some times the entire camera) rotated to create extreme wide angle shots.<\/p>\n<p>Around 1952 the <a href=\"https:\/\/camera-wiki.org\/wiki\/Panon\">PANON<\/a> camera came out of Japan to create extreme wide angle scenes (140 degrees) on 120 film via a rotating lens.<\/p>\n<p>Lot 12 in our <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/may-3-2026-spring-auction\/\">May 3rd Estate auction<\/a> is just such a camera with a case. The model number may be newer than 1952 but is not visible with the case.<\/p>\n<p>Come out and enjoy your Sunday afternoon while you browse the offerings and bid to add to your collection\/user gear. Free parking, free admission, friendly folk. The details and poster plus lot photos and list will be pinned to the top of \u00a0this site until the auction day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. Over the years, various cameras were offered with a moveable septum and lens that (or some times the entire camera) rotated to create extreme wide angle shots. Around 1952 the PANON camera came out of Japan to create extreme &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wow-thats-wide\/\">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":[27],"tags":[500,34,279],"class_list":["post-34012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auction","tag-accessories","tag-cameras","tag-lenses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34012","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=34012"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34016,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34012\/revisions\/34016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}