Biggest Camera Race....ON!

[Tin Can]

Just got this from Tim Layton newsletter

https://mailchi.mp/26a4710b4fb4/darkroom-diary-update-5040818?e=c5153ac749

[Ethan]

I saw that as well. For me it would be fun to shoot with a 20x24, but I think 8x10 is best suited to my workflow. Maybe 11x14 someday

[John Layton]

Its kind of ironic how lots of folks (myself included), as our bodies grow older and older, want to go bigger and bigger.

I can think of any number of remote locations where I'd love to have a 20x24 to play around with...but lately, this older and older body of mine is starting to think otherwise!

Hmmm...what about designing and incorporating a 20x24 into some kind of rickshaw or garden cart? Time to get out that graph paper...and sharpen that pencil?

[Tin Can]

I was planning a 'histerical' hand cart that wood slide into my pickup

but then i had to quit driving, poor eyesight, my decision

26" tubeless wheels

I can push it to next year's coffee shop and my Historical Village

[Jim Jones]

John - You might scale your idea down a bit like this photographer did: https://danageraths.blogspot.com/2012/01/mammoth-camera-nearly-complete.html

[Tin Can]

Exactly perfect!


John - You might scale your idea down a bit like this photographer did: https://danageraths.blogspot.com/2012/01/mammoth-camera-nearly-complete.html

[Tin Can]

Go through his files

Amazing

https://danageraths.blogspot.com/2013/10/

[John Layton]

Ha! Looks like a civil war relic! I like the footstool/steps attachment - and the adjustable rear brace to change the viewing angle, which might also double as a mule harness (or horse, alpaca, dog, person, etc.).

But expanding on the garden-cart idea - I could envision having some sort of parallelogram lifting frame with a crank...to adjust the height of the camera, plus a couple more cranks to adjust the camera angle. Could work!

[Leszek Vogt]

All good, and without dampening anyone's spirit, the negatives, the carriage + long ears to pull it:rolleyes:....they all require space, like a 3-car garage perhaps.

Les

[Tin Can]

I have a 16X40' shed

and a nice 8X30 porch

[Michael Jones]

I used one of these for my Ritter 20x24. Worked great.

https://www.thule.com/en-us/bike-trailers/multisport-trailers/thule-chariot-lite-2-_-10203022

While you can always find them for less than retai, it was a drop in the bucket when you add up the price of admission to 20x24. Heck, it didn't cost as much as a box of film when I bought it.

Mike

[Drew Bedo]

"Ultrelarge format Aquisition Syndrome ("Disorder?"):

I am sure that this is a real thing. I am waiting for this guy to post pictures of the camera he builds from a shipping container on a utility trailer. . . .8x10 FEET.

[Tin Can]

I think the biggest analog photo ever made used a BIG US Marine airplane hanger all blacked out

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Picture

[Drew Bedo]

"The Great Picture. . . .Well Ok but:

I guess the big deal is not that the image is compelling to view, but that it exists at all right?

I couldn't find a good viewable shot of the image itself on line.

I would be more impressed if someone had done a similar thing on a smaller scale with a semi-trailer or shipping container that could be transported to a scenic lookout somewhere.

Or if something like that had been temporarily done to an as yet uncompleted floor of the Freedom Tower in NYC as it was going up.

[Tin Can]

Back on this idea

It is Spring!

Mine will not be ALL retro

Amazon Wheelbarrow handles, some sort of box, bicycle wheels, just enough to wobble into my yard and get it on the porch

Gotta get on it before it's winter again

I am a believer in happy Dreams

[Drew Wiley]

Biggest Picture : they turned an empty blimp hanger into a pinhole camera, and used paint rollers to apply something like a liquid light emulsion to canvas, as I recall. Ended up with a giant remarkably boring image of the adjacent parking lot. Biggest portable cameras, well, a number of RV's and truck trailers have been turned into those, as well as a big flatbed truck tricked out with a giant wooden view camera on it. I've personally chatted with such people on how to make on-site processing drums six to eight feet long out of large diameter plastic irrigation pipe. They develop by rolling those on the sidewalk of road surface. Some late 19th C frontier cameras were so big they needed to be supported by scaffolding. I've seen a few contact prints about 5 ft across, and they weren't even close to the largest from that era.

[Tin Can]

Wet blankets are useless until dry

Advertising Headlines work

For many fun is doing not criticizing

I think that is how KODAK made it big

Everybody can make images