{"id":124871,"date":"2019-11-14T21:50:07","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T02:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=124871"},"modified":"2019-11-14T21:50:13","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T02:50:13","slug":"club-donates-cameras-to-historical-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2019\/11\/14\/club-donates-cameras-to-historical-society\/","title":{"rendered":"Club donates cameras to Historical Society"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On Sunday, November 3, the Van Wert County Historical Museum gained three additional film cameras for its photography exhibit.&nbsp;The cameras came from the Van Wert Photography Club\u2019s collection.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Museum Trustee Larry Webb selected a Peerless sliding box camera produced from 1887-94 by the Rochester Optical Company in Rochester, New York; an Argus C3 rangefinder camera produced from 1933-66 in Ann Arbor, Michigan; and a Mamiya C3 Professional twin-lens reflex medium-format camera made from 1962-65 in Japan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"545\" height=\"265\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Camera-Club-photo-11-13-19.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-124872\"\/><figcaption><strong>Historical Society Trustee Larry Webb (center), with Camera Club representatives Larry Dickerhoff (left), and Rex Dolby, hold the new museum acquisitions.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Peerless is a front-focusing view camera with a 4 x 5 brass lens.&nbsp;The back is 4 x 5 and is non-reversing with a single swing.&nbsp;The body is made of mahogany and cherry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Argus (nicknamed \u201cthe brick\u201d because of its appearance and durability) was \u201cthe most commercially significant 35mm camera produced in this country selling over 2 million cameras during a 25-30 year period,\u201d according to Henry Gambino.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The museum\u2019s Mamiya is based on the Mamiyaflex series built from 1949-1956.&nbsp;The C series began in 1956 and upgrades continued till 1994.&nbsp;Initially, the camera was intended for professional photographers, but was later modified for the amateur market as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Camera Club\u2019s remaining film cameras will first be&nbsp;offered free of charge to historical groups, civic groups, schools and programs like 4-H in Van Wert County and then to similar groups outside our county.&nbsp;Contact Rex Dolby at 567.259.8951 to schedule an appointment.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, November 3, the Van Wert County Historical Museum gained three additional film cameras for its photography exhibit.&nbsp;The cameras came from the Van Wert Photography Club\u2019s collection.&nbsp; Museum Trustee Larry Webb selected a Peerless sliding box camera produced from 1887-94 by the Rochester Optical Company in Rochester, New York; an Argus C3 rangefinder camera [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cameraclub"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-31 06:16:01","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}