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 19:57:56 2006
References: <79D4928503F85CB586DE0815@scarborough.isc.org> <458365E0.2000705@hemenway.com>

I shot PMTs and page negs on an old Brown camera getting my foot in  
the door at a small town (family owned) daily. I split time between  
camera room and sports photos.

It led to being photo department for the paper, the most fun I ever  
had working.

I did it as long as I could afford to.

ric


On Dec 15, 2006, at 10:20 PM, Jim Hemenway wrote:

> In the summer of 1959, I ran a Robertson camera with a vacuum back,  
> (I think it was 24x30), and huge arc lights.  It was mounted on 25  
> foot long railroad tracks.
>
> Mostly I shot huge half-tone negatives which were used to make  
> offset printing plates.
>
> I made enough money to pay for my books and art supplies and my  
> tuition at Mass Art for the following year... tuition at that time  
> was only $200/per year.
>
> Jim
>
>
> 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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