[Leica] IMG: The Biggest Camera I Ever Used

[Alan Magayne-Roshak]

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  ;~)

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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/

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