{"id":27991,"date":"2014-07-02T07:46:42","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T14:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/?p=27991"},"modified":"2014-07-02T07:46:42","modified_gmt":"2014-07-02T14:46:42","slug":"theres-one-born-every-minute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2014\/07\/02\/theres-one-born-every-minute\/","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s one born every minute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>A fool and his money &#8230;.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><center><a href=http:\/\/microsites.lomography.com\/petzval-lens\/ target=_blank><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/Petzval.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"545\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<i>Click the image for Lomography&#8217;s site and hang on to your wallet.<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Lomography specializes in selling plastic crap cameras to <del>photographers<\/del> idiots who desire to take crap pictures. It&#8217;s a winning combination, one must admit.  The two are made for one another, proving yet again that not only is a fool and his money easily parted, but also that there are lots of fools.<\/p>\n<p>Now the &#8216;anything to be different&#8217; crowd who need technology, even if distinctly retro, to excuse their total lack of creativity and imagination can blow $600 on a lens first designed in 1840.  This comes complete with the most ghastly rendering of OOF areas, dizzyingly bad, and with a set of drop in aperture stops because, let&#8217;s face it, for that sum of money who could possibly expect an adjustable iris diaphragm.  (&#8220;Hang on love, gotta stop down.  Dang, just dropped the stop in the cow patty.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>Of course, if you dare use this on your digital Canon or Nikon, the self-combust device kicks in and your prized DSLR melts.  You understand this is intended for film users only?  But of course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fool and his money &#8230;. Click the image for Lomography&#8217;s site and hang on to your wallet. Lomography specializes in selling plastic crap cameras to photographers idiots who desire to take crap pictures. It&#8217;s a winning combination, one must admit. The two are made for one another, proving yet again that not only is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2014\/07\/02\/theres-one-born-every-minute\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">There&#8217;s one born every minute<\/span> <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":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lenses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27992,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27991\/revisions\/27992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}