Peter Binkley on Nostr: Great photograph of the Recordak sheet-feed microfilm camera in operation: Zoom in to ...

Great photograph of the Recordak sheet-feed microfilm camera in operation: https://archive.org/details/recordak-sheetfeed Zoom in to see that she's copying pages of different sizes, which drop into the bin (which, if I'm reading this right, is placed inconveniently so that the operator has to angle her knees to the side). While microfilming the AAA papers in 1934 Ted Schellenberg copied 14,000 pages in a 10-hour shift with one of these babies. (I'm working on a blog post about that project) #microfilm