{"id":1735,"date":"2018-04-26T22:54:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T12:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1735-now-you-see-me-2.html"},"modified":"2018-04-27T03:50:02","modified_gmt":"2018-04-26T17:20:02","slug":"now-you-see-me-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1735-now-you-see-me-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Now You See Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:401 --><a href=\"\/serendipity\/\" title=\"Robert&apos;s Ramblings\"><!-- s9ymdb:2388 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"631\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/1563-_MG_4082.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nOr perhaps now you don&#8217;t &#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThis bizarre looking device has seen to seeing that unseeing people get to see again. It probably has done so for decades. <br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe Bausch and Lomb Green&#8217;s  Genothalmic Refractor was introduced in 1934 following a long design gestation from the original Clyde L. Hunsicker invention, the &#8216;optometer&#8217;. It went on to enjoy four decades of unrivaled use as the &#8216;gold standard&#8217; of professional eye care equipment. Even today they are still being used to good effect.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThis old specimen has however been retired to live out its days as a store front prop in a Hutt Street photography studio. I find the link a bit tenuous but it sure looks good in the shop window.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nI&#8217;d wager a small bet that most of you of a similar age have been seen to and seen through one of these beauties sometime in your life,<br \/>\n<br \/>\n   &#8230; so maybe you do after all.<br \/>\n <br \/>\n<br \/>\nPhoto: Robert Rath, &#8216;Lessons Learned&#8217;, 1\/125s f1.8 ISO100 50mm<br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or perhaps now you don&#8217;t &#8230; This bizarre looking device has seen to seeing that unseeing people get to see again. It probably has done so for decades. The Bausch and Lomb Green&#8217;s Genothalmic Refractor was introduced in 1934 following a long design gestation from the original Clyde L. Hunsicker invention, the &#8216;optometer&#8217;. It went &#8230; <a title=\"Now You See Me\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1735-now-you-see-me-2.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about Now You See Me\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}