What is the largest camera you have used or presently own?

[brimc76]

My largest camera would be a 4x5 Arca Swiss and 4x5 Crown Graphic Special.

 

[cjarvis]

I have an 11x14 Seneca with one holder; needless to say I don't use it much.

I use my 8x10 Deardorff the most, but I am partial to using a 5x7 back. I just like the aspect ratio more.

 

[Black Dog]

Currently 4x5 but planning to go to 8x10. And then who knows....Apart from weight and bulk the main hassle with ULF is finding lenses that give enough coverage and which aren't the size of the Death Star.

 

[nick mulder]

My largest neg is a 4x5 camera I built myself. But the largest camera happens to take the smallest neg I have used, a 16mm...

 

[naturephoto1]

My largest negative (transparency) cameras are my Linhof Technikardan 45S and my Toho Shimo FC-45X.

Rich

 

[TheFlyingCamera]

my biggest is a Zone VI Ultralight 8x10, but I have plans in the works for making my own 12x20 in a vertical configuration for studio portraiture.

 

[avandesande]

One way to get the ULF experience without the additional cost is to get a calumet c-1. Feels like 20x24 but the film for it is cheap!

 

[Hugo Zhang]

9 1/2" x 20" and 8"x20" holders.

 

[Michael Kadillak]

9 1/2" x 20" and 8"x20" holders.

12x20 is the largest, but I have been shooting mostly 8x20 lately.

Cheers!

 

[Curt]

I use 4x, 5x, 8x and 2x3, 645, and all formats for Graflex. Working on 11x14 just need to put it together to actually own a 11x14.

 

[jgjbowen]

7x17 is the largest.......for now

 

[Jim Fitzgerald]

Largest camera

I love my 8x10 Seneca Improved. It's old but so what, so am I. It is not to heavy so I can pack it a lot of places. I took it to the Oceano dunes a couple of weeks ago and found out that I need to get that backpack out of my closet and set it up for the 8x10. It does get heavier coming back with it slung over my shoulder! The 8x20 will have it's own golf cart!!!

Stay Focused....or Soft Focused!!!

Jim

 

[uraniumnitrate]

8x10 is the biggest right now and I have a couple of those but I have some 4x5 too! I’m much occupied with a 20x24 home made thing based on the rip off bellows from a former Agfa (industrial) repro camera. The lens would be a 1000 mm APO-RONAR which I allready have in my collection.

 

[glbeas]

Largest I've USED is a 18x28 Clydesdale copy camera. I even shot a picture of a buddy with it, though his eyes were clenched shut against the 4,000 watts of lighting.

 

[Roger Hicks]

The biggest portable camera I've used is my current 12x15 inch Gandolfi, but I'm going to sell it, just as I did my 11x14 Imperial (made to my design in India some 20-25 years ago -- I sold six or eight of them, including two to the late Terence Donovan).

Increasingly I am convinced that unless you are into big prints via alternative processes -- and I am not immune to the charms of such prints -- you might as well enlarge 5x7 inch. After all, 3x is 15x21 inch and the quality should be indistinguishable from a contact print. If you do like alternative processes, well, I like 5x7 inch Argyrotypes and POP too.

ULF cameras are huge and heavy; processing is altogether too much like hard work; and running costs are enormous. I can see why some people do it, and admire their work; but I have also met those who would be rotten photographers regardless of format, and who would have done well to learn to walk (perhaps with 35mm) before they started to run with ULF.

Non-portable? Can't remember. We had a copy camera (on rails) at Plough Photography and it may have been as much as 24 x 30 inch but as no one ever used it above 8x10 inch (via serious reducing backs) this didn't mean a lot.

Cheers,

R.

 

[Steve Smith]

My largest camera as far as negative size is concerned is my home made 5" x 4" but my new (to me) Mamiya RB67 is longer and about twice the weight.

The largest camera I have used was the process camera we used to have at work which would take a piece of film about four feet square and had a Nikon lens the size of a beer barrel.


Steve.

 

[Allen Friday]

The largest camera I have ever made was 8' by 14'--I converted my son's room into a giant pin hole camera by covering the windows with cardboard and I used a 1/2 inch hole in a cigar box lid to let in the light. Only problem is that the camera isn't very portable. Does that count?

 

[doughowk]

7X17 Korona is the largest I intend to go (at least that's what I told my wife when I got it last year ;-)

 

[reellis67]

I only do *some* historic process printing so 8x10 is as big as I forsee myself going, and even then I only use it for things that I intend to print with a hand-coated paper. My primary camera size is 4x5 and 120.

- Randy

 

[removed account4]

i have a century studio 11x14 that is set-up but
needs a little TLC before i can start using it
when i run out of 11x14 paper ( for negatives!)
hopefully there will be another person in line to drift it off to

-john

 

[clogz]

Where can I vote for the Pentax 110?

 

[reellis67]

That was a superb little camera system! I always loved those little things. Hmmmm, maybe I need to get one to shoot with again...

- Randy

 

[Roc Chan]

3ft.X3ft. film ,2 room size copy camera.

 

[poutnik]

I mainly use 6x7cm, and 9x12cm in adapted Ica Ideal. At the moment, I am waiting for a MPP Technical Mk VII to arrive - then I'll move to 9x12cm/4x5" as my main size.

I also have 2 13x18cm and 2 8x10" film holders, I started drawing plans for the smaller one. I intend to try the design and then build the 8x10" one. If everything works OK, I might build an even larger (5x12" or even a 7x17")...

Jiri

 

[Ted Harris]

I'm with Roger regarding 5x7. In fact, with the possibility of digital negatives produced from 4x5 or 5x7 I'm not sure I see any adavantage in anything larger other than to say you did it.