{"id":9026,"date":"2017-07-14T08:05:08","date_gmt":"2017-07-14T12:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=9026"},"modified":"2017-07-13T23:26:32","modified_gmt":"2017-07-14T03:26:32","slug":"have-you-ever-seen-a-portrama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/have-you-ever-seen-a-portrama\/","title":{"rendered":"Have you ever seen a Portrama?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9028\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Portrama.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9028\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9028\" src=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Portrama-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"197\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9028\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Portrama Polaroid camera sold in Germany.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. \u00a0Have you ever heard about or seen a strange \u00a0Polaroid camera called the Portrama? I had a call the other day from John Linsky, one PHSC&#8217;s founders. John found this odd looking camera at our trunk sale last Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>After a lot of unproductive Google searches, John found the site <a href=\"https:\/\/www.catawiki.com\/catalog\/photo-and-video-cameras\/manufacturers-brands\/polaroid\/1963427-zz-oem-portrama-happyphoto\">CATAWIKI<\/a> which lists items for auction. The site listed the owner as AARTS POLAROID which is the user name chosen by Aart Schippers of Driethe Netherlands.<\/p>\n<p>You can see more photos of this camera <a href=\"https:\/\/auction.catawiki.com\/kavels\/6418325-polaroid-portrama-happy-card-camera-collector-s-item\">here<\/a>. It is also called a Happy Card camera. If you insert four 35mm slides in the camera using its special tray. Perhaps they appear on your portrait.<\/p>\n<p>One site said it uses Polaroid Spectra 339 film (ISO 600, 3-5\/8 inches by 2-7\/8 inches). \u00a0Another site claims it uses 1200 film &#8211; same speed and measurements as 339 film. Neither film (339 or 1200) is available today&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. \u00a0Have you ever heard about or seen a strange \u00a0Polaroid camera called the Portrama? I had a call the other day from John Linsky, one PHSC&#8217;s founders. John found this odd looking camera at our trunk sale last Sunday. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/have-you-ever-seen-a-portrama\/\">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":[1270,301],"class_list":["post-9026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camera","tag-instant-camera","tag-polaroid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9026","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=9026"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9032,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9026\/revisions\/9032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}