Submitter's name:	Juan Pachon
Title:	Linotype
Gear used:	OM 1 + 100/2.8
Diaphragm:	f8
Shutter speed:	1/250
Film used:	Agfa APX 400 developed in divided D76
Technical information:	The film was scanned at 500 dpi, using a Nikon Coolscan VED scanner.
Subject information:	Nothing special, this is part of a linotype which I encountered one day at a flea market. I remember that not long ago in our printing shop we used blocks of lead for our work. Nowadays everything is done by photo processors, ah, the good old times...
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Comment left by: Olaf Greve (no e-mail specified)

Very cool machine, and lovely sharpness.

Comment left by: siddiq (no e-mail specified)

what exactly am i looking at? very nice pic, but no idea what it is. looks like a press on top of a typewriter thingy.

Comment left by: Walt Wayman (no e-mail specified)

I was a journalism major and an intern at a newspaper my junior year long enough ago to know exactly what this is. It's the sort of device that convinced me that television was the medium of the future -- at least my future, anyway. Well done.

Comment left by: Scott Gomez (no e-mail specified)

I burnt many a finger knocking out lines from columns output by one of these as a proof reader at the Charleston "News & Courier" years ago. Nothing like reading upside down and backwards lead type to hone one's skills in observation. Nice gradations and an interesting viewpoint.

Comment left by: Steve Goss (no e-mail specified)

I saw a machine like this just last Saturday, at an Army Navy surplus store. But it Wasn't a linotype, it was for punching out military dog tags.

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