Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/12/16
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I hate to be overly pragmatic but "in the end we are all scrap metal". ;-)
Walt
Ric Carter wrote:
> Walt--
>
> As the rest of the refrain goes:
>
> "It's the end of the world as we know it,
> And I feel fine!"
>
> As little desire as I have to use one again, it's still a little hard
> to think of it being scrap metal.
>
> Cameras, no matter the form, are not meant to be ground up to make
> Chevy mufflers.
>
> Ric
>
>
> On Dec 15, 2006, at 5:38 PM, Walt Johnson wrote:
>
>> Brian
>>
>> Thanks, it brings back horrible memories of all the years I worked
>> for newspapers :-P
>>
>> Walt
>>
>> Jim Nichols wrote:
>>
>>> 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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