[rollei_list] Re: OT: Re: Rollei Digital (Junk)! Windmill Presses

The guy(s) in question may be using the copy camera still, Eric, but I didn't 
say anything about making money with it.
:  )

E.
 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Eric Goldstein" <egoldste@xxxxxxxxx>
> It is thrilling to know that there are still guys making money with
> copy cameras, and that we have list members with substantial
> experience on the Heidelberg and the Speedmaster, both playing
> prominent and important roles in the history of the 20th and perhaps
> the 21st Centuries...
> 
> Eric Goldstein
> 
> --
> 
> On 1/18/08, ERoustom <eroustom@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > There's still a few guys left here shooting film of comps and then
> > running offset presses. Some technologies take a long time to die -
> > if ever. I get offered a copy camera about once a year... It's
> > tempting to have a camera that takes up a room.
> >
> > Now comparing offset and letterpress is like film vs. digital. A safe
> > machine with automated moving parts hardly exists. The Windmill is
> > one of the safest platens, but as John Christiansen of the Firefly
> > press in Cambridge once said, "It would take your arm off and not
> > even slow down." So really, the idea is to run it while keeping your
> > arm out of it, which isn't that hard to do.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Elias
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