{"id":8639,"date":"2017-06-01T08:13:14","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T12:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=8639"},"modified":"2017-05-31T14:31:53","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T18:31:53","slug":"that-film-plane-thing-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/that-film-plane-thing-again\/","title":{"rendered":"That Film Plane Thing Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8633\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/curved-sensor.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8633\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8633\" src=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/curved-sensor-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"125\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8633\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Curved Digital Sensor<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. Well over a half century ago a young Latvian designed the amazing <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Minox\">Minox<\/a> spy camera. For a time, some\u00a0models used a novel idea to add to the lens correction &#8211; the film plane was slightly curved along its longer side. A similar approach was taken with the Minox enlarger. Camera and enlarger were both used wide open (no aperture). I had the enlarger and two versions of the tiny camera with the curved film plane &#8211; the Model IIIs and the Model B.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, Russ Forfar dropped me a note say that<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\"> Science Daily<\/a> in its Science News section on May 30th described how scientists had created a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2017\/05\/170530115043.htm\">curved digital sensor<\/a>. The curve allows a sharper lens when used wide open giving better resolution under low light situations. Shades of that old Minox spy camera! (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.minox.com\/index.php?L=2\">Minox<\/a>\u00a0is still around today.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. Well over a half century ago a young Latvian designed the amazing Minox spy camera. For a time, some\u00a0models used a novel idea to add to the lens correction &#8211; the film plane was slightly curved along its longer &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/that-film-plane-thing-again\/\">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":[105,282,1178,414],"class_list":["post-8639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camera","tag-digital","tag-minox","tag-science-daily","tag-sensor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8639","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=8639"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8646,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8639\/revisions\/8646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}