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Ben Syverson
3-Dec-2010, 15:02
Anyone know anything about this camera? I saw it in the window of a photo school in Amsterdam, but forgot to get a shot of the school's name.

It's by far the largest camera I've ever seen that looks like it was designed for conventional photography as opposed to printmaking or copy work... The back must be 40x40" or larger!
alex from holland
3-Dec-2010, 15:33
I thought it was a process camera.
It's in the window of the photo academi in A'dam ?
I have seen it before. That thing is big.

But this one is much bigger. It's at the Photomuseum in Antwerp (belgium).

http://upload.pbase.com/image/130847114/original.jpg

Alex
Emil Schildt
3-Dec-2010, 15:40
I have seen one at least as big in the museum of photography in Denmark, and that was made for copy work...

Huge monster....
Ben Syverson
3-Dec-2010, 15:45
Hmm, maybe it is for copy work after all. If so, they sure made copy cameras much nicer back in the day!
mdm
3-Dec-2010, 19:54
Here is another, recently built, for Ben Cauchi a New Zealand artist. 20x24 wet plate. With a Dallmeyer 6D on the front.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/4399753/Bellows-camera-a-labour-of-love

David

That is a name worth googling, Ben Cauchi. Excelent photos.
D. Bryant
3-Dec-2010, 20:21
Here is another, recently built, for Ben Cauchi a New Zealand artist. 20x24 wet plate. With a Dallmeyer 6D on the front.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/4399753/Bellows-camera-a-labour-of-love

David

That is a name worth googling, Ben Cauchi. Excelent photos.

God! What a show off! ;)

Don Bryant
Frank Petronio
4-Dec-2010, 00:38
When you smoke too much everything looks bigger Benny.
bobwysiwyg
4-Dec-2010, 04:31
Then there is this one, though no longer in existence..

http://www.fotoart.gr/photography/history/historyphotos/onephotoonestory/thelargestcamera.htm
GPS
4-Dec-2010, 04:47
Then there is this one, though no longer in existence..

http://www.fotoart.gr/photography/history/historyphotos/onephotoonestory/thelargestcamera.htm

Never mind the camera but what about the lens?? It seems strangely retouched on the picture and also the wooden construction under it doesn't suggest it carries the weight of the whitish blur which wants to be a lens.
bobwysiwyg
4-Dec-2010, 07:08
..what about the lens?? It seems strangely retouched on the picture..

It wasn't my doing. :)
GPS
4-Dec-2010, 07:49
It wasn't my doing. :)

Little did I know...;)
Ben Syverson
4-Dec-2010, 17:00
When you smoke too much everything looks bigger Benny.
That could explain the seventeen foot long Petzval I saw floating in the canal...
jb7
4-Dec-2010, 17:05
Is that Dutch for a GRP yacht without a mast?
alex from holland
5-Dec-2010, 01:11
That could explain the seventeen foot long Petzval I saw floating in the canal...

was that before or after visiting a coffeeshop ?? :D
Sirius Glass
5-Dec-2010, 06:49
That could explain the seventeen foot long Petzval I saw floating in the canal...
was that before or after visiting a coffeeshop ?? :D

Pot is available in the Netherlands, so can't we all just get a bong?

Steve
Drew Bedo
5-Dec-2010, 07:02
I saw a video (on U-Tube?) of a guy in California who built a camera in what looked like a shipping container. He had it on a utility trailer and backed it into a scenic overlook. Hemade direct posatives on a paper medium and processed them in a large PVC pipe Jobo-type roller that he made. The images were maybe 3x5 feet or larger.

Thats a BIG camera.
Drew Bedo
5-Dec-2010, 07:10
Ok . . .I found it again on YouTube. Now this is a big camera!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xYWehyfFcM
Ben Syverson
6-Dec-2010, 11:44
Ok . . .I found it again on YouTube. Now this is a big camera!
It looks like John Chiara was doing some smoking of his own!