mike wilson wrote: >> On 02 December 2016 at 21:59 Mark Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> mike wilson wrote: >> >> >There are much, much worse things to spend the money on. >> >> That was my thinking precisely. My cost for the book is about $175 and >> I had a discount code for 40% off which brought it to around $120.00 >> including shipping. I had to order a second book after making some >> minor adjustments to 6 or 7 images after the test print. So my total >> cost came to about $240.00. The experience of making a portfolio book >> like this is far more beneficial (from an education/experience >> standpoint alone) to my photography than any piece of camera gear or >> software I could have bought for that amount. >> >> Incidentally, my costs included the purchase of the DOves Regular font >> specifically for this project. The book is set entirely in this >> typeface. If you haven't heard about it's a fascinating story: >> http://www.economist.com/news/christmas-specials/21591793-legendary-typeface-gets-second-life-fight-over-doves >> http://gizmodo.com/the-gorgeous-typeface-that-drove-men-mad-and-sparked-a-1686081182 > >I'm surprised any of the punches survived; either rust or the acid anaerobic >conditions in the mud should have eroded them beyond use.
In fact, they only recovered about 150 pieces (out of approximately a ton of what was dumped). That's a pretty small percentage. here's another article with some video: http://www.typespec.co.uk/recovering-the-doves-type/ -- Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
