[Leica] IMG: The Biggest Camera I Ever Used

[Mark Rabiner]

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
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> <
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Portraits/Self-Ports/1972
> 0704_MR_Mine_33A.jpg.html
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-- 
Mark William Rabiner
Photographer
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/