Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/12/17
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But I do remember hours of work in the darkroom with a smaller one of
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Philippe
Op 15-dec-06, om 22:49 heeft Brian Reid het volgende geschreven:
> I have this feeling that not very many Luggers recognized the
> object in Ric Carter's photo as the abandoned skeleton of a
> horizontal process camera. Clearly those of us who have actually
> used them knew what it was. But I must confess that it doesn't look
> a whole lot like a camera to anybody who hasn't met one.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/ricc/Grab-Bag/camera.jpg.html
>
> The process camera was used to photograph a "mechanical", which is
> to say a page layout, to produce copies ("photomechanical
> transfers"), plates, or films. Nowadays everybody just uses
> computer-to-plate or computer-to-press, except for the diehard
> traditionalists who still use imagesetters....
>
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