[Leica] IMG: Type Trays

[Gerry Walden]

Bill

Another who has memories. good to know that the trays are getting a second life at least.

Thanks for looking,

Gerry

Gerry Walden LRPS
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> On 22 Jul 2015, at 19:37, Bill Pearce <billcpearce at cox.net> wrote:
> 
> Wow! In my twenties, I commonly ordered type set in hot metal, there was only one printer in town still doing that. The quality was superior to the cold type of the day, which was a photographic printing process, with strips of film in a machine with the characters on it. Like anything else, cold type was cheaper and most people didn't notice a difference, so cheap and mediocre won. Modern computer set type is quite good, but I'll be hot metal is still better.
> 
> -----Original Message----- From: Gerry Walden
> Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2015 7:46 AM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Type Trays
> 
> 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
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>>> +44 (0)797 287 7932
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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>> -- 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Sonny
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