World's largest non-stationary camera?
World's largest non-stationary camera?
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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
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?
Note the entirely faked lens.
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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