{"id":747,"date":"2020-11-04T10:27:08","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T18:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historic.camera\/?p=747"},"modified":"2020-11-04T10:27:08","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T18:27:08","slug":"all-lenses-are-sharp-but-modern-lenes-lack-flavor-hong-kong-camera-guardian-david-chan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historic.camera\/?p=747","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;all lenses are sharp&#8230; but modern lenes lack flavor&#8221;, Hong Kong camera guardian David Chan\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a camera store and collector that I&#8217;d love to meet someday!\u00a0 Short video worth watching even just for the camera &#8216;porn&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>He says something interesting to me (in the text translation anyhow) that &#8220;all lenses today are sharp&#8221;, but that modern lenses can lack flavor and can&#8217;t produce the unique texture that vintage lenses could.<\/p>\n<p>I think might be true.\u00a0 Many of the modern lenses are very well corrected, and perhaps some of the aberrations in older lenses are what provide the character.\u00a0 What do you think?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hong Kong camera guardian David Chan spent 60 years collecting vintage gear\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BXLxnc_8qw4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a camera store and collector that I&#8217;d love to meet someday!\u00a0 Short video worth watching even just for the camera &#8216;porn&#8217;. He says something interesting to me (in the text translation anyhow) that &#8220;all lenses today are sharp&#8221;, but that modern lenses can lack flavor and can&#8217;t produce the unique texture that vintage lenses could. I think might be true.\u00a0 Many of the modern lenses are very well corrected, and perhaps some of the aberrations in older lenses are<a class=\"entry-more\" href=\"https:\/\/historic.camera\/?p=747\">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":[11],"tags":[348,349,351,347,350],"class_list":["post-747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rare-cameras","tag-camera-store","tag-collector","tag-david-chan","tag-hong-kong","tag-vintage"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/historic.camera\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747","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=747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/historic.camera\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":748,"href":"https:\/\/historic.camera\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747\/revisions\/748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/historic.camera\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historic.camera\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historic.camera\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}