{"id":32063,"date":"2012-11-04T06:41:24","date_gmt":"2012-11-04T11:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=32063"},"modified":"2016-10-28T06:03:28","modified_gmt":"2016-10-28T10:03:28","slug":"rca-electra-zoom-lens-part-1the-electra-zoom-was-in-use-at-nbc-for-the-debu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=32063","title":{"rendered":"RCA Electra-Zoom Lens, Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RCA Electra-Zoom Lens, Part 1<\/p>\n<p>The Electra-Zoom was in use at NBC for the debut of the Today Show in January of 1952. When this actually became available, I don&#8217;t know, but we do know from the RCA catalog description that there were two ways to operate the lens. Manually, it was done with a push through rod like the Zoomar rod. Electronically the lens zoomed in and out with a toggle switch that mounted on the pan handle. The electronic control is shown in this photo.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/photos\/a.197108410326716.39183.189359747768249\/446596668711221\/?type=3\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp_automatic_fb_img\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/RCA-Electra-Zoom-Lens-Part-1-The-Electra-Zoom-was-in-use-at-NBC-for-the-debu\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/446596682044553\">Source<\/a>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RCA Electra-Zoom Lens, Part 1 The Electra-Zoom was in use at NBC for the debut of the Today Show in January of 1952. When this actually became available, I don&#8217;t know, but we do know from the RCA catalog description that there were two ways to operate the lens. Manually, it was done with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":32064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_popup_image":0,"_vp_format_audio_url":"","_vp_album_images":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail":0,"_vp_custom_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail_cover":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}