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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/8/2018 7:03 AM, Geo Hahn wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 1:28 AM,
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</span> Having done technical publications for well more
than a decade, that's probably not exactly what
happened. The photo shows LHD, not RHD, but, maybe the
RHD negative was reversed to save time...</div>
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<div>I wondered about that, then saw that it is clearly a
separate photo for LHD - noting the orientation of the
speedo & tach needles, pedal and dipper positions and
even a different ashtray.</div>
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All of which can be done by paste-up on a reversed negative. You'd
be surprised what happens when there's little time available, and
paste-up would have been the standard process at that time--that's
how the arrows are put into the photo, for example.<br>
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I'm not saying that's exactly how it happened. The original is of
low enough quality to make analysis impossible. But, I've done
enough of it to know that when time is short, the people in pubs
don't go down to the showroom, take new photos, have them developed
and printed and then do new paste-up for offset printing. They grab
what they have and massage the hell out of it--and that's usually
where mistakes creep in. For example, by the two newbies who were
very proud of reversing a right-side three-quarter view of a bus for
some advertising literature because they thought it fit better with
the text... until someone pointed out that the entrance and exit
doors opened to the street, not the curb, and that we weren't trying
to sell buses to Great Britain.... :)<br>
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Michael Porter
Roswell, NM
Never let anyone drive you crazy when you know it's within walking distance....</pre>
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