{"id":627,"date":"2008-05-25T21:55:57","date_gmt":"2008-05-26T04:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=627"},"modified":"2008-05-26T22:16:48","modified_gmt":"2008-05-27T05:16:48","slug":"a101-lens-mechanism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=627","title":{"rendered":"#a101 :: Lens mechanism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/0525081.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-629\" title=\"ENLARGE\" src=\"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/0525081-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"ENLARGE\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"3\" srcset=\"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/0525081-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/0525081-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/0525081.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Clockwork is a wonderful thing to begin with. Couple it with optics and it carries the promise of alchemy.<\/p>\n<p>I once spent hours poring over used-gear cases at camera shops, <a href=\"http:\/\/viagrabuyonline.net\" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:#676c6c\">try<\/a>  camera shows, flea markets, staring at oblong packages of brushed aluminum and black leatherette.<\/p>\n<p>I was a photo geek &#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nI could never afford anything too heavy, and always bought things I needed &#8211; lens hood, a new wide-angle lens. But handling heavy or obscure instruments, however unrequited by purchase, always repaid me with a frisson of enjoyment almost approaching the sexual.<\/p>\n<p>The timer mechanism is the only thing still working on this machine &#8211; the extracted heart of a cheap off-brand compact 35mm from Germany or some eastern-bloc country. I long ago disassembled and discarded the less-compelling remains of its corpse.<\/p>\n<p>You pull down the red-dot tab of rifled aluminum to wind up the timer, then pull the trigger arm to trip the clockwork&#8217;s 5-second pulse-and-click. <i>Tsssszzip. <b>Tick<\/b>pzzzzzzzzzzz *click*.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a happy sound, the sigh of anticipation and the sudden snatching of light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clockwork is a wonderful thing to begin with. Couple it with optics and it carries the promise of alchemy. I once spent hours poring over used-gear cases at camera shops, try camera shows, flea markets, staring at oblong packages of brushed aluminum and black leatherette. I was a photo geek &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fetish","category-jetsam","category-part"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}