Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/01/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Edward Weston had a 5x7 which he called his "mini". I've always loved the format and the print size. My portfolio now is 5x7. I wish they were contact prints. On 1/7/15 1:10 AM, "Alan Magayne-Roshak" <amr3 at uwmalumni.com> wrote: > 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/1972 > 0704_MR_Mine_30A.jpg.html >> > < > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Portraits/Self-Ports/1972 > 0704_MR_Mine_33A.jpg.html >> -- Mark William Rabiner Photographer http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/