{"id":9658,"date":"2017-09-27T08:58:38","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T12:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=9658"},"modified":"2017-09-25T13:46:34","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T17:46:34","slug":"give-me-a-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/give-me-a-ring\/","title":{"rendered":"give me a ring&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9659\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/VALAU-VALOO.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9659\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9659\" src=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/VALAU-VALOO-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"104\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9659\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pre war VALAU (left) and post-war VALOO (right)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. I mentioned in the previous post that Leitz made a special ring so the fiddly little aperture adjustment on the 5cm Elmar could be seen and moved by a ring that went around the accessory. This avoided the risk of poking a damp finger smack in the middle of the front lens element while trying to make an adjustment in the dark.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike on the camera, on the enlarger one had to open the lens fully to focus and then shut down the aperture a stop or two for the sharpest results. Leitz made two rings for the famous little Elmar &#8211; pre-war there was the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.photo.net\/discuss\/threads\/nickel-ring.479697\/\">VALAU<\/a>, a nickel plated gizmo that converted the aperture setting to a number.<\/p>\n<p>Post war, Leitz offered a more elegant and heavier ring called a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.photo.net\/discuss\/threads\/nickel-ring.479697\/\">VALOO<\/a> that adjusted the aperture but showed the actual aperture at the side of the lens. Beautiful! The deeper design was often used on the camera mounted lens as a sunshade when taking photos.<\/p>\n<p>Of course those with deeper pockets and less inclined to fiddle could buy a lens made especially for the enlargers of the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. I mentioned in the previous post that Leitz made a special ring so the fiddly little aperture adjustment on the 5cm Elmar could be seen and moved by a ring that went around the accessory. This avoided the risk &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/give-me-a-ring\/\">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":[40],"tags":[738,286,1188,63,1436,1437],"class_list":["post-9658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lens","tag-accessory","tag-darkroom","tag-elmar","tag-leitz","tag-valau","tag-valoo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9658","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=9658"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9673,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9658\/revisions\/9673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}