Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/12/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I knew it. I knew it. That's the first thing I thought of when I saw
the picture. Then I dropped it. Nah. We got rid of that camera over
20 years ago and it was old then. We would do the same thing.
Prototype pc boards before sending them off for mass production.
That's before mechanical engineering even heard of a computer. Boy I
miss those days. Actually I miss working.
Len
On Dec 15, 2006, at 5:22 PM, Bill wrote:
> I used to use one of those 36 odd years ago in the manufacture of
> prototype PC boards. Photograph the artwork and apply
> appropriate reductions and use the resulting negative to coat
> copper clad pc boards. Man, that took me back.
>
> Bill in Denver
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+bill=photobynelsch.com@leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+bill=photobynelsch.com@leica-users.org] On
> Behalf Of
> Brian Reid
> Sent: Friday, December 15, 2006 2:49 PM
> To: Leica Users Group
> 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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