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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Type Trays
From: gerry.walden at icloud.com (Gerry Walden)
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2015 13:46:24 +0100
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Pleased my image brought back some memories Sonny.

Gerry

Sent from my iPad

> On 22 Jul 2015, at 13:37, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> My first Journalism job was at a letterpress weekly. The press room set
> headlines and ads from trays like that.
> 
> We had Linotype machines for the hard work of setting body type.
> 
> http://www.linotipia.it/english.htm
> 
> When I went to a newspaper that printed offset, it was like going digital;
> Everything was typed on IBM typewriters.
> 
> I moved away from newspapers by the time they went to electronic newsroom.
> 
> I still get daily delivery of a paper newspaper, but when I'm out of town,
> I read it on my iPad.
> 
> Hotels no longer put a paper outside your room every morning.
> 
> On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 1:59 AM, Gerry Walden <gerry.walden at icloud.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> A newly scanned image from a T-Max 400CN film taken in the year 2000
>> whilst walking the streets in Paris:
>> 
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gwpics/1060-27a.jpg.html
>> 
>> To me this in a way speaks of the redundancy of film for digital.
>> 
>> Gerry
>> 
>> 
>> Gerry Walden LRPS
>> www.gwpics.com
>> +44 (0)23 8046 3076 or
>> +44 (0)797 287 7932
>> 
>> 
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> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> 
> Sonny
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In reply to: Message from gerry.walden at icloud.com (Gerry Walden) ([Leica] IMG: Type Trays)
Message from sonc.hegr at gmail.com (Sonny Carter) ([Leica] IMG: Type Trays)