[Leica] IMG: The Biggest Camera I Ever Used

[Richard Man]

The lens is big, yes, but is it full frame? :-)

Time to process those films!

Coincidentally, I haven't shot this much film since probably 2010, when I
got the M9.

On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 10:10 PM, 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  ;~)
>
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> --
> Alan
>
> Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer
> University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Photo Services
> (Retired)
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> UPAA Master of the Profession 2014
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