Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/12/15

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Subject: [Leica] IMG end of the world
From: jhnichols at bellsouth.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Fri Dec 15 14:06:12 2006
References: <79D4928503F85CB586DE0815@scarborough.isc.org>
 
Brian,

Thanks.  I suspected it was something of that sort, but have never seen one.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian Reid" <reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Friday, December 15, 2006 3:49 PM
Subject: RE: [Leica] IMG end of the world


>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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Replies: Reply from walt at waltjohnson.com (Walt Johnson) ([Leica] IMG end of the world)
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