World's largest non-stationary camera?
World's largest non-stationary camera?
"Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig."
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This question was asked very recently. See http://www.largeformatphotography.in...have-seen-ever
It looks pretty stationary to me.
Bigger is not better.
"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it."
- George Bernard Shaw
Note the entirely faked lens.
That's the best documentation of that big thing, I have seen.
I made a porthole in my last darkroom which accessed the street I lived on. A big lens made a neat camera obscura. I used the Reinhold 790 mm.
I have a darkroom cargo trailer, maybe it needs a hole in the wall!
Tin Can
One question is- what happened to the original 8-foot long print? And the 54"x96" glass-plate negative?
One can assume that the enormous camera was scrapped sooner or later. But the photo of the camera and crew has a lens obviously retouched in. What could it have been, and where is it today? In Mark Sawyer's collection?
"Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig."
seezee at Mercury Photo Bureau
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The Boston Camera should certainly be considered in this discussion
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Camera
3 tons. 6096mm lens
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