Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/01/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Coincidentally with the discussion on formats, I came across the negatives of me with the biggest camera I ever used. In 1972 I was running a darkroom in the student union when the Craft Centre director discovered we had access to government surplus for the facility. He and I went to the surplus warehouse in Madison and with very little cost secured a Fairchild F-56 aerial camera with 20" f/5.6 lens. It came in a case with a vacuum back for 9" wide roll film, but also a Grafmatic-type back for multiple sheets of 5x7 film. This is the back I used to take vistas around town, since the lens was fixed focus at infinity. The camera is most likely still lurking in some basement corner in the union. I shot a box of 25 sheets, but only got around to processing about eight (in a tray). I've had the exposed film in a freezer since 1972 ;~) < http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Portraits/Self-Ports/19720704_MR_Mine_30A.jpg.html > < http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Portraits/Self-Ports/19720704_MR_Mine_33A.jpg.html > -- Alan Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Photo Services (Retired) UPAA POY 1978 UPAA Master of the Profession 2014 amr3 at uwm.edu http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/ "All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for an inability to notice. " - Elliott Erwitt