{"id":917,"date":"2009-02-04T08:54:24","date_gmt":"2009-02-04T15:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2009\/02\/04\/the-curse-of-black\/"},"modified":"2009-02-04T08:54:50","modified_gmt":"2009-02-04T15:54:50","slug":"the-curse-of-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2009\/02\/04\/the-curse-of-black\/","title":{"rendered":"The curse of black"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>I never could fathom this one<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>When I was a kid, cameras and stereo gear came in chrome.  The engravings were in black and everything could be made out from a distance.  Especially useful when trying to make out the settings on your amplifier or what have you.<\/p>\n<p>Then, some time in the 1970s, black was declared cool (that seems to be a renewed trend now, with as little substance as last time) and the sad result for users was that their coolness was accompanied by a general inability to tell what anything was set to without a lot of squinting and eyeglasses on the head.<\/p>\n<p>In their mass market models, some manufacturers bucked the trend and you see all sorts of jolly colors in digital point-and-shoots today and I, for one, love the trend.  But there&#8217;s little color available in the better gear, a recent exception being the <a href=http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2008\/11\/29\/micro-four-thirds\/ target=_blank>Panasonic G1<\/a> which comes in a couple of jolly colors. Now Pentax has joined the movement:<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/K2000white.jpg\" width=\"546\" height=\"486\"\/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always liked saddle leather brown.  Maybe Canon could be persuaded to do a custom 5D Mark II?  Nah!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I never could fathom this one. When I was a kid, cameras and stereo gear came in chrome. The engravings were in black and everything could be made out from a distance. Especially useful when trying to make out the settings on your amplifier or what have you. Then, some time in the 1970s, black &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2009\/02\/04\/the-curse-of-black\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The curse of black<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cameras"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917","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=917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}