{"id":7142,"date":"2016-12-20T10:23:18","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T14:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=7142"},"modified":"2016-12-18T20:18:57","modified_gmt":"2016-12-19T00:18:57","slug":"steady-as-you-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/steady-as-you-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Steady as you go&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7144\" style=\"width: 159px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/TOOUG-Leitz-Table-Tripod-c1950.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7144\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7144\" src=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/TOOUG-Leitz-Table-Tripod-c1950-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"149\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7144\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leitz Table Tripod TOOUG c1950<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. Leitz sold many tripod adaptors and steadying gadgets before the war. The first table top tripod complete with a ball and socket head came out in 1949. The early models were code named TOOUG and had a black crackle enamel finish. Later models had a smooth grey finish and came without a ball and socket head of which different models were offered.<\/p>\n<p>The tiny tripod and a head were terrific for steadying the camera. I used a large ball and socket head on a newer model tripod to steady my M4 to my chest. I also used it on sofa backs, fences, trees, etc not just tables.<\/p>\n<p>A wonderful and versatile little gadget in the days when ISO 400 was considered super fast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. Leitz sold many tripod adaptors and steadying gadgets before the war. The first table top tripod complete with a ball and socket head came out in 1949. The early models were code named TOOUG and had a black crackle &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/steady-as-you-go\/\">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":[24],"tags":[63,803,805,804],"class_list":["post-7142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camera","tag-leitz","tag-table","tag-tooug","tag-tripod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7142","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=7142"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7147,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7142\/revisions\/7147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}