{"id":9464,"date":"2017-09-03T08:46:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-03T12:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=9464"},"modified":"2017-09-01T16:03:18","modified_gmt":"2017-09-01T20:03:18","slug":"the-graflex-i-nearly-bought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/the-graflex-i-nearly-bought\/","title":{"rendered":"The Graflex I nearly bought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Graflex-ad-Pop-Photo-February-1948.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9465\" src=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Graflex-ad-Pop-Photo-February-1948-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"163\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>Toronto<\/strong>. George Dunbar sent out a few more Graflex ads from the late 1940s. One ad struck a chord with me. \u00a0In 1960 my main camera was the <a href=\"http:\/\/camerapedia.wikia.com\/wiki\/Exakta_Varex_IIa\">Exakta VXIIa<\/a>. I was interested in getting a camera which made a larger negative, so I dropped into my local camera shop, Camera Craft in Barrie. Joe Waterer had a few cameras to show me. He was keen to offer me a 2-1\/4 x 3-1\/4 inch model B Graflex (like the one in the ad) as one option.<\/p>\n<p>I was put off the Graflex by its antique look and its\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/camerapedia.wikia.com\/wiki\/Graflex_reflex_models\">incredibly awkward shutter<\/a>. Its focal plane shutter had a long curtain with various widths of slots and various tension springs. A table on the side of the camera showed which slot and which spring to use for a given shutter speed from 1\/1o to 1\/1000 second.<\/p>\n<p>After looking over the camera I turned it down. Joe then showed me a Japanese knock off called a <a href=\"http:\/\/camerapedia.wikia.com\/wiki\/Rittreck_(6\u00d79)\">Rittreck IIa<\/a> in Canada. It had a modern shutter and came with both 6 x 9 cut film holders and a 120 roll film back. With care, I could use a 2 1\/4 square enlarger to print the centre of the rectangular negatives.<\/p>\n<p>I bought the Rittreck but only made a few photographs with it as the Exakta was far more convenient to use &#8211; \u00a0and looked more like a high end professional or advanced amateur camera to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. George Dunbar sent out a few more Graflex ads from the late 1940s. One ad struck a chord with me. \u00a0In 1960 my main camera was the Exakta VXIIa. I was interested in getting a camera which made a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/the-graflex-i-nearly-bought\/\">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":[835,263,1397],"class_list":["post-9464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camera","tag-exakta","tag-graflex","tag-rittreck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9464","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=9464"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9470,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9464\/revisions\/9470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}