[Leica] IMG end of the world

[reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us (Brian Reid)]

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....