{"id":34557,"date":"2026-07-16T01:03:52","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T05:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=34557"},"modified":"2026-07-14T20:21:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T00:21:34","slug":"full-spectrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/full-spectrum\/","title":{"rendered":"full spectrum"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_34560\" style=\"width: 204px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/old-folder.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34560\" class=\"size-full wp-image-34560\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/old-folde-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-34560\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">an old folder<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. From its invention in 1839 until dry plates hit the market, photography was for specialists only &#8211; people with the skill and art necessary for the taking of a good &#8216;likeness&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>When dry plates hit the market, followed about a decade later by roll film, all this changed and photographs could be taken by an amateur and processed and printed later by a professional.<\/p>\n<p>By the mid following century, kids could be given a cheap box camera, budding amateurs a folder, and the high end professional could use a camera with increased complexity and flexibility.<\/p>\n<p>Late last century the digital era hit and by this century every smartphone had a sophisticated camera built in, giving full colour instantaneously, with the ability to save and send the image anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. From its invention in 1839 until dry plates hit the market, photography was for specialists only &#8211; people with the skill and art necessary for the taking of a good &#8216;likeness&#8217;. When dry plates hit the market, followed about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/full-spectrum\/\">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":[34],"class_list":["post-34557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-cameras"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34557","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=34557"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34563,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34557\/revisions\/34563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}