Now THAT'S what I call a ULF Camera!

[ReallyBigCameras]

http://cgi.ebay.com/Acti-Centaur-Camera-54-X154-Rear-Loading_W0QQitemZ7599831527

Comes with some pretty impressive glass, too.

Kerry

 

[Frank Petronio]

Bet it doesn't sell for $3K. More like cartage fees...

 

[Terence]

A 71" lens? Holy crap.

 

[Photo Engineer]

I've seen two similar to that one. One at Cape Canaveral and one at Eastman Kodak.

Very impressive beasts. BTW, the standard lens on our aerial cameras was 36". We had much longer focal length lenses for telephoto. LoL.

PE

 

[Kino]

Come with a polaroid back?

 

[Alex Hawley]

Does J&C sell film in that size?

 

[Photo Engineer]

At Cape Canaveral our film came directly from the various manufacturers in refrigerated freight cars. There was a railroad spur behind the Tech Labs south of Patrick AFB. The film came right off the cars into our refrigerators in the building.

I think that the film for our camera at CCMTA and EK were both either 20x40 or 40x80.

The budget for photo materials was $50M / year in 1962.

PE

 

[vet173]

I bet the last thing he will let out the door will be the lenses. The rest has to be gone before I'd let them go.

 

[dphphoto]

Looks like a ceiling mounted, fully automated, auto focus and worm gear driven copy camera. Great for shooting huge pieces of kodalith. Rediculously expensive when new (maybe 15 years ago) and now probably obsolete.
I worked for a graphic arts co. in Virginia that had one like this. Working around it made you feel like you wanted to wear a lab coat. Dean