[Leica] IMG: The Biggest Camera I Ever Used

[Alan Magayne-Roshak]

On Thu, 08 Jan 2015 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
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>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
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Mitch, thanks for the reminder.  I'd forgotten that in 1970, when I was a
summer photo intern, I used a Robertson process camera that took up to
20x24 sheet film in a vacuum back. THAT would have been the biggest camera
I ever used.  Like this one, the back was in the darkroom, the lens and
bellows in the copy room.
-- 
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
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