{"id":2409,"date":"2020-07-06T09:37:03","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T09:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/photomuse.in\/?p=2409"},"modified":"2020-07-06T09:37:03","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T09:37:03","slug":"mercury-ii-model-cx-1945-viewfinder-camera-photomuse-collection-2018-gift-of-dr-unni-krishnan-pulikkal-source-herbert-ascherman-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/photomuse.in\/index.php\/2020\/07\/06\/mercury-ii-model-cx-1945-viewfinder-camera-photomuse-collection-2018-gift-of-dr-unni-krishnan-pulikkal-source-herbert-ascherman-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercury II (model CX), 1945, Viewfinder Camera, PhotoMuse Collection, 2018, Gift of Dr. Unni Krishnan Pulikkal, Source &#8211; Herbert Ascherman Collection."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Univex Mercury is a half-frame viewfinder camera with rotary disc shutter cassettes. The Mercury II is a post-War reincarnation of the Mercury I, produced by Universal Camera Corp U.S.A from 1945. The Mercury II cameras accept standard 35mm cassettes. Type: viewfinder camera. Lens: Tricor f\/3.5 35mm (non coated). Shutter: Rotary metal focal-plane shutter with speeds T, B, 1\/20 &#8211; 1\/1000sec plus F hot synch. Film: 35mm film, for 65 half-size (18 \u00d7 24mm) exposures. Construction: Aluminum\/magnesium alloy. Viewfinder: Galilean type optical finder. Dimensions: 145 \u00d7 95 \u00d7 60mm. Weight: 600g.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Univex Mercury is a half-frame viewfinder camera with rotary disc shutter cassettes. The Mercury II is a post-War reincarnation of the Mercury I, produced by Universal Camera Corp U.S.A from 1945. The Mercury II cameras accept standard 35mm cassettes. Type: viewfinder camera. Lens: Tricor f\/3.5 35mm (non coated). Shutter: Rotary metal focal-plane shutter with&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2410,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/photomuse.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/photomuse.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/photomuse.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photomuse.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photomuse.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/photomuse.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photomuse.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/photomuse.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photomuse.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photomuse.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}