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