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I used one of these for my Ritter 20x24. Worked great.
https://www.thule.com/en-us/bike-tra...e-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
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"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.
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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
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"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.
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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
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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.
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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