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

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Subject: [Leica] IMG end of the world
From: ricc at mindspring.com (Ric Carter)
Date: Fri Dec 15 14:51:07 2006
References: <79D4928503F85CB586DE0815@scarborough.isc.org>

Thanks, Brian, I should have done that.

Ric


On Dec 15, 2006, at 4:49 PM, 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....
>
>
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