{"id":728,"date":"2020-10-24T10:20:54","date_gmt":"2020-10-24T17:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historic.camera\/?p=728"},"modified":"2020-10-24T10:20:54","modified_gmt":"2020-10-24T17:20:54","slug":"ricoh-500-experiences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historic.camera\/?p=728","title":{"rendered":"Ricoh 500 &#8211; Experiences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently acquired a Ricoh 500 triggermatic rangefinder camera and will be posting my experiences with it here soon. These seem to be well built cameras &#8211; mine is from 1958 or so and still functions properly.\u00a0 Fits nicely in the hand and has lever arms on the focus throw and a fast film winding lever that unfolds at the base.<\/p>\n<p>For now this post will be a holding page for the research I&#8217;m doing on it as well.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Ricoh 500 info at Camera-wiki.org\" href=\"http:\/\/camera-wiki.org\/wiki\/Ricoh_500\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">From the Camera-wiki.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historic.camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/6379110075_fbc2154836.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"6379110075_fbc2154836.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently acquired a Ricoh 500 triggermatic rangefinder camera and will be posting my experiences with it here soon. These seem to be well built cameras &#8211; mine is from 1958 or so and still functions properly.\u00a0 Fits nicely in the hand and has lever arms on the focus throw and a fast film winding lever that unfolds at the base. For now this post will be a holding page for the research I&#8217;m doing on it as well. From<a class=\"entry-more\" href=\"https:\/\/historic.camera\/?p=728\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[234],"tags":[297,340,106,338,337,339],"class_list":["post-728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical","tag-35mm","tag-340","tag-japanese","tag-older","tag-rangefinder","tag-ricoh"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/historic.camera\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/historic.camera\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/historic.camera\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historic.camera\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historic.camera\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/historic.camera\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":730,"href":"https:\/\/historic.camera\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions\/730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/historic.camera\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historic.camera\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historic.camera\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}