Now these guys know how to build a camera

Rlibersky · Jul 6, 2005

http://www.rtpnet.org/robroy/lawrence/mammoth.html

This is a great camera. I'm wondering if I can get the wife to let me buy one?

Has anyone seen the picture from this behemoth?

mark · Jul 6, 2005

I wonder if it folds up for backpacking.

geraldatwork · Jul 6, 2005

An interesting article. I would like to see the photograph of the train. thanks for posting.

Monophoto · Jul 6, 2005

Do J&C suppply film in this format?

Dave Parker · Jul 6, 2005

oh boy, I know that I have found a camera I COULD NOT make a screen for, what a monster!

Dave

eric · Jul 6, 2005

Rlibersky said:
http://www.rtpnet.org/robroy/lawrence/mammoth.html

This is a great camera. I'm wondering if I can get the wife to let me buy one?

Has anyone seen the picture from this behemoth?

I have a coffee table book, about 20 years old, called "The Americas". Has photos like Curtis and other western photographers. There's a good image of that same photo above inside it. I now know, what he was taking a photo of! After all these years. There' s a photo inside, I remember well also, a guy about a foot from the edge of a cliff and looking behind the ground glass of an 8x10.

What strikes me as fascinating about those photos, is the post processing of the plates out in the field. Now that is insane!

livemoa · Jul 6, 2005

It is possibile that they used a dry plate for this camera which would have made the whole process slightly less cumbersome.

eric said:
What strikes me as fascinating about those photos, is the post processing of the plates out in the field. Now that is insane!

philldresser · Jul 6, 2005

Of course you know OLE would handhold this and call it a pocket camera

Phill

Nick Zentena · Jul 6, 2005

Those are Lilliputins.

jimgalli · Jul 6, 2005

And we think our teensy 12X20's are something. Hah! There were giants in the earth in those days. Now when is that lens going to show up on Ebay. Hope they list it in the automotive section and I'm the only one that finds it

mikewhi · Jul 6, 2005

I anxiously await the digital camera version......

mark · Jul 6, 2005

eric said:
I have a coffee table book, about 20 years old, called "The Americas". Has photos like Curtis and other western photographers. There's a good image of that same photo above inside it. I now know, what he was taking a photo of! After all these years. There' s a photo inside, I remember well also, a guy about a foot from the edge of a cliff and looking behind the ground glass of an 8x10.

What strikes me as fascinating about those photos, is the post processing of the plates out in the field. Now that is insane!

Is the photo of the guy on the cliff at the Grand Canyon?

The Kolb brothers, the photogs at the grand canyon in the early 1900's would take a photo at their studio and then jog down the trail into the canyon a ways where there was water to complete the processing. They woud shoot a portrait of folks riding mules down, develope the neg and have a print for them when they got back to the top at the end of the mule tour. Those brothers were in seriously good shape. I've printed from many of their negs and there are pebbles and other small debris stuck in the emulsions.

Flotsam · Jul 6, 2005

That is exactly what my Nikon feels like after hanging around my neck for a few hours

MurrayMinchin · Jul 6, 2005

What's that guy at the back doing? I think he's applying some in-camera dodging by wiggling his dodging wand

Murray

roteague · Jul 6, 2005

Where is the guy who was asking about making his own "lens"? Let him work on this one.

John McCallum · Jul 6, 2005

Hmmm ... right a bit, left just a touch ... no the other left ... now up a bit, yep that'll do it ...

jimgalli · Jul 6, 2005

Actually, the guy at the back was operating the focal plane shutter. I've been fascinated by the group of articles all afternoon. Interesting guy. Solved every problem but one. Cheated on his wife and had to flee to California leaving all the cameras behind.

John McCallum · Jul 6, 2005

"It's about time we started to take photography seriously and treat it as a hobby." -Elliott Erwitt

Nige · Jul 7, 2005

and where's a link to the picture of the train?

Jorge · Jul 7, 2005

So, does it come with a digital back?.....

Rlibersky · Jul 7, 2005

Jorge said:
So, does it come with a digital back?.....

I've searched and have not been able to find it. If anyone knows please post it here.

Dorothy Blum Cooper · Jul 9, 2005

Information & images by George R. Lawrence (for inquiring minds)

Dead Link Removed

http://www.bigshotz.co.nz/george_lawrence.html

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/f?pan:0:./temp/~ammem_d4xs:

http://www.rtpnet.org/robroy/lawrence/mammoth.html

http://www.rtpnet.org/robroy/lawrence/Images/mammoth2.jpg

http://www.rtpnet.org/robroy/lawrence/intro.html#articles

It appears that no one has been able to locate the photograph taken by Lawrence of the The Alton Limited in Chicago. Sorry 'bout that!! Would have been cool to see!!!

David H. Bebbington · Jul 9, 2005

If you live in or near Chicago:

http://www.chsmedia.org:8081/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=11209N9206EJ4.3712&profile=public&source=~!horizon&view=subscriptionsummary&uri=full=3100046~!4481~!1&ri=1&aspect=subtab112&menu=search&ipp=20&spp=20&staffonly=&term=Chicago+and+Alton+Railroad&index=.GW&uindex=&aspect=subtab112&menu=search&ri=1#focus

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