What is the largest format camera that you have seen ever?

[Tin Can]

Miss you Jac!

I am working on HUGE camera!

or 3

[bertie]

For å period there was a 36" lens at Camera Traders, can't remember the aperture but it was massive. Ednsd up going up island to a guy making a camera obscura on the water that you could kayak into.
And then my roommate got the gig to go up and work as an assistant for the project for a week.

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[Duolab123]

I salvaged lenses from an immense process camera in a former life the shortest was 60 inches, both Rodenstock. Foolishly or Thankfully I traded them off for next to nothing. Some of the film I found was 3x4 feet, camera was bigger than that.
I should have scavenged more stuff, got some odds and ends.

This was leads to madness from my experience:-)

[Tin Can]

and some of us have the monster 11X14 Commericial Deardorf at 800 lbs

It came with 20 ft tall pipes for studio perspective control

I know of 5

Here is mine with shortened pipes, but new bellows and waiting for 11X14

We love these 1929 monsters

Deardorff S11 New Bellows by TIN CAN COLLEGE, on Flickr

I salvaged lenses from an immense process camera in a former life the shortest was 60 inches, both Rodenstock. Foolishly or Thankfully I traded them off for next to nothing. Some of the film I found was 3x4 feet, camera was bigger than that.
I should have scavenged more stuff, got some odds and ends.

This was leads to madness from my experience:-)

[Mal Paso]

I worked on a 3x4 foot Brown copy camera built into the wall between the darkroom and the copy room. The back had 2 opposing hinged doors. One was ground glass the other was a vacuum back. Lens board and copy board were motorized. Mostly shot lith film and made tool masters for integrated circuits. Always 68 degrees and controlled humidity, nice place to work.

[Tin Can]

I was shown a similar setup, a day shift only operation

2 rooms

The factory did everything in house in 1 millon sq ft

Miles of silk screen on everything

We had many heavy duty RTV repeaters

I worked on a 3x4 foot Brown copy camera built into the wall between the darkroom and the copy room. The back had 2 opposing hinged doors. One was ground glass the other was a vacuum back. Lens board and copy board were motorized. Mostly shot lith film and made tool masters for integrated circuits. Always 68 degrees and controlled humidity, nice place to work.

[jnantz]

Bob Cone and the people at Rockland Colloid turned an airplane hanger into a large format camera, does that count ? the photograph made with it can be found in the rockland colloid gallery.

[Tin Can]

Pinhole!

[Robert Opheim]

The largest camera I have seen was a graphic arts camera 4 feet square or so. the largest view camera (was a field camera) was a Mammoth Plate camera that was in a museum show of the work of Edward Curtis

[willwilson]

8x10, my own. Maybe this is something I should correct?

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