This is the world's largest camera. You won't be using it to take holidays snaps or to send cinema of your cooking up to Instagram, and you won't be able to bring the consequent sketch in your wallet. In fact the large print - of a drab stage of a scrubby Californian home - is rsther than unimpressive save for its size. What this hulk camera is about is numbers. Big, big numbers.
The Great Picture was carried out back in 2006 as segment of the continuing Legacy Project , and incited an transport hangar in Marine Corps Air Station El Toro, California in to a pinhole camera. The camera deliberate 13.71 x 48.76 x 24.38 meters (45 x 160 x 80 feet) and constructed a sketch of 9.62 x 33.83 meters (31.6 x 111 feet). And that's only getting started.
How do you spin a drafty, gaping hangar in to a light-tight box? With lots of hands. Six artists used 24,000 block feet of black cosmetic sheeting, 1,300 gallons of froth hole filler and 1.52 miles of black fasten to sign out the light, and mist 40 cans of black paint around to cut out reflections.
The "film" was a hulk piece of muslin hand-painted with 80 liters of Rockland Liquid Light emulsion. This was completed beneath safelights (the movie was black and white).
Finally, a quarter-inch pinhole was punched in to the wall, 15 feet from the floor, and the movie was unprotected for 35 minutes.
Then the growth began. A swimming pool sized building tray was filled with 600 gallons of developer, and the the picture was prearranged with 1,200 gallons of fixer. Rinsing, the last stage before parching the print, was completed with glow hoses bending up to a span of hydrants sending by 750 gallons a minute.
It's an extraordinary feat, nonetheless its a tarnish that the print had to be of a within reach manage tower and runways. Still, we theory getting a lovable dog on a skateboard to mount still for half an hour is even harder than building a three-story camera.
The Great Picture product page [Legacy Project around Petapixel ]
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