[Leica] IMG: The Biggest Camera I Ever Used

[Bill Pearce]

I on occasion when at the airplane factory used a very large process camera, 
the film back could hold at least the size of a sheet of newspaper. Don't 
remember how big sheet of Kodalith we had but they were very big. I have a 
friend that owns a lab and does a big business shooting original art. He 
uses an old process camera that he has modified the part where the lith film 
once was mounted to hold a Canon D5. Artists then have inkjet prints made 
for sale.

-----Original Message----- 
From: Alan Magayne-Roshak
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2015 2:34 PM
To: lug at leica-users.org
Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: The Biggest Camera I Ever Used

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
<http://www.publicsurplus.com/sms/docviewer/aucdoc/photo6.JPG?auc=955302&docid=7773693>
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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>
>


>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
=========================================================================================================================
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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