Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/01/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I on occasion when at the airplane factory used a very large process camera, the film back could hold at least the size of a sheet of newspaper. Don't remember how big sheet of Kodalith we had but they were very big. I have a friend that owns a lab and does a big business shooting original art. He uses an old process camera that he has modified the part where the lith film once was mounted to hold a Canon D5. Artists then have inkjet prints made for sale. -----Original Message----- From: Alan Magayne-Roshak Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2015 2:34 PM To: lug at leica-users.org Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: The Biggest Camera I Ever Used On Thu, 08 Jan 2015 Mitch Zeissler <zeissler at mac.com>wrote: >The largest camera I ever worked with was a NuArc horizontal process camera, with which we used pin-registered 8x10 or 11x14 Kodalith film. >Closest thing I found on the interwebs were these photos: >http://www.publicsurplus.com/sms/docviewer/aucdoc/photo6.JPG?auc=955302&docid=7773693 <http://www.publicsurplus.com/sms/docviewer/aucdoc/photo6.JPG?auc=955302&docid=7773693> < http://www.publicsurplus.com/sms/docviewer/aucdoc>>/photo6.JPG?auc=955302&docid=7773693 <http://www.publicsurplus.com/sms/docviewer/aucdoc/photo6.JPG?auc=955302&docid=7773693> > >It was a beast. 20?x24? rotating film board with vacuum back; 30?x40? rotating copy board; four 800 watt lights. When we were putting together a >multi-image presentation, we would shoot Kodalith negs for days on end ? 300-400 8x10 sheets was pretty typical for a big show. You had to use ear plugs >because the vacuum system was so loud. . >Mitch Zeissler ========================================================================================================================= Mitch, thanks for the reminder. I'd forgotten that in 1970, when I was a summer photo intern, I used a Robertson process camera that took up to 20x24 sheet film in a vacuum back. THAT would have been the biggest camera I ever used. Like this one, the back was in the darkroom, the lens and bellows in the copy room. -- Alan Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Photo Services (Retired) UPAA POY 1978 UPAA Master of the Profession 2014 amr3 at uwm.edu http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/ "All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for an inability to notice. " - Elliott Erwitt _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information