Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/01/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I did a shoot once with the 20x24 Polaroid. It was one big ground glass! http://darkclothdiaries.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/20x24camera21.jpg Leo Wesson leowesson.com > On Jan 8, 2015, at 01:41, Mitch Zeissler <zeissler at mac.com> wrote: > > The largest camera I ever worked with was a NuArc horizontal process > camera, with which we used pin-registered 8x10 or 11x14 Kodalith film. > > Closest thing I found on the interwebs were these photos: > http://www.publicsurplus.com/sms/docviewer/aucdoc/photo6.JPG?auc=955302&docid=7773693 > > <http://www.publicsurplus.com/sms/docviewer/aucdoc/photo6.JPG?auc=955302&docid=7773693> > http://www.publicsurplus.com/sms/docviewer/aucdoc/photo5.JPG?auc=955302&docid=7773692 > > <http://www.publicsurplus.com/sms/docviewer/aucdoc/photo5.JPG?auc=955302&docid=7773692> > http://www.publicsurplus.com/sms/docviewer/aucdoc/photo1.JPG?auc=955302&docid=7773704 > > <http://www.publicsurplus.com/sms/docviewer/aucdoc/photo1.JPG?auc=955302&docid=7773704> > http://www.publicsurplus.com/sms/docviewer/aucdoc/photo2.JPG?auc=955302&docid=7773703 > > <http://www.publicsurplus.com/sms/docviewer/aucdoc/photo2.JPG?auc=955302&docid=7773703> > > Compared to the camera in the photos, ours had a 12 foot range of > horizontal travel and was all in one room, like this one: > http://www.osti.gov/home/sites/www.osti.gov.home/files/imported/60th/1970/p7hg_img_1/fullsize/1970s_darkroom_camera_fs.jpg > > <http://www.osti.gov/home/sites/www.osti.gov.home/files/imported/60th/1970/p7hg_img_1/fullsize/1970s_darkroom_camera_fs.jpg> > > > It was a beast. 20?x24? rotating film board with vacuum back; 30?x40? > rotating copy board; four 800 watt lights. When we were putting together > a multi-image presentation, we would shoot Kodalith negs for days on end ? > 300-400 8x10 sheets was pretty typical for a big show. You had to use ear > plugs because the vacuum system was so loud. > > Mitch Zeissler > === > Website: http://exploratorius.us/ > >> On Jan 7, 2015, at 7:51 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: >> >> 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/ >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information