{"id":7212,"date":"2016-12-27T10:04:08","date_gmt":"2016-12-27T14:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=7212"},"modified":"2016-12-27T22:13:05","modified_gmt":"2016-12-28T02:13:05","slug":"folders-are-fun-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/folders-are-fun-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Folders are fun too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Kodak-Six-20-folder.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7213\" src=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Kodak-Six-20-folder-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>Toronto<\/strong>. Yesterday, boxing day, I mentioned the box camera. How about the ubiquitous folder popularized by Kodak? The box camera user could upgrade his camera and skills by investing in a folder. These compact cameras used a bellows to set the distance from film to lens allowing even closer photos to be taken, while a better quality shutter and lens increased the range of speeds and f\/stops.<\/p>\n<p>Like its earlier siblings, a folder size was chosen to match the desired print size. It was popular in the days when contact prints were common and enlarged prints rare &#8211; enlargements came with the minicam craze of the 1930s.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->My father used a box camera when he went out west as a youth to help harvest. When he married, he invested in this\u00a0Kodak Junior Six-20 and used it for many years taking pictures of his family and surroundings.<\/p>\n<p>Folders even went to the first world war. The sturdy little black enamelled Kodak using 127 film would close and tuck neatly in a shirt pocket, well protected and safely out of sight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. Yesterday, boxing day, I mentioned the box camera. How about the ubiquitous folder popularized by Kodak? The box camera user could upgrade his camera and skills by investing in a folder. These compact cameras used a bellows to set &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/folders-are-fun-too\/\">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":[822,21,823],"class_list":["post-7212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camera","tag-folder","tag-kodak","tag-six-20"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7212","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=7212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7215,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7212\/revisions\/7215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}