[Leica] IMG end of the world

[Jim at hemenway.com (Jim Hemenway)]

In the summer of 1959, I ran a Robertson camera with a vacuum back, (I 
think it was 24x30), and huge arc lights.  It was mounted on 25 foot 
long railroad tracks.

Mostly I shot huge half-tone negatives which were used to make offset 
printing plates.

I made enough money to pay for my books and art supplies and my tuition 
at Mass Art for the following year... tuition at that time was only 
$200/per year.

Jim


Brian Reid wrote:

> 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....
>