{"id":9779,"date":"2017-10-13T08:54:18","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T12:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=9779"},"modified":"2017-10-14T15:19:09","modified_gmt":"2017-10-14T19:19:09","slug":"otta-da-ooze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/otta-da-ooze\/","title":{"rendered":"Outta da ooze"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9781\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/OOZAB.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9781\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9781\" src=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/OOZAB-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"149\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9781\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">OOZAB Sliding Focusing Stage or Focoslide c 1955 shown upside down.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. Willard Morgan&#8217;s nifty Sliding Focusing Stage must have been selling well because in 1938 Leitz Wetzlar began to make and market the accessory which by this time had a spring-loaded clamping bar to hold the camera both in the NYC and in the Wetzlar versions.<\/p>\n<p>The Wetzlar stamped accessory was given a new code as well &#8211; OOZAB. The OOZAB and the NYC version were both made and sold through 1951 when the NYC accessory was dropped. The OOZAB was modified at that time to an H shaped clamping bar to clear the flash socket of the IIIf.<\/p>\n<p>I picked up my c1955 example from Dave DeShon in September 1978. This version of the Focoslide which used the camera lenses was made through 1957.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. Willard Morgan&#8217;s nifty Sliding Focusing Stage must have been selling well because in 1938 Leitz Wetzlar began to make and market the accessory which by this time had a spring-loaded clamping bar to hold the camera both in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/otta-da-ooze\/\">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":[738,1134,63,327,1477,1303],"class_list":["post-9779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camera","tag-accessory","tag-focoslide","tag-leitz","tag-nyc","tag-oozab","tag-wetzlar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9779","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=9779"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9821,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9779\/revisions\/9821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}