Whoa!

[Sean]

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Photography/Darkroom-studio-equipment/auction-27649419.htm

It's a good thing this isn't local! What a beast!

 

[TPPhotog]

Down boy down!! Any more large heavy pieces of kit in your home and you'll going to be cracking the earths crust or changing the earths rotation

 

[Thomassauerwein]

Boy would'nt that be a dream come true!

 

[David A. Goldfarb]

We had a process camera with a vacuum back like that in our high school's print shop. I wonder if they still have it.

 

[glbeas]

I used to run one that big years and years ago (in my best geezer voice). It was a Clydesdale brand camera, had 4000 watts of light at the copyboard. It had cranks on the darkroom end too so you could focus the GG, I'd lie in wait for the girls from pasteup to come in and try to put something on the copy board to shoot then move it suddenly. Put a good scare in them, that is until they heard me rolling on the floor.

 

[Claire Senft]

Wimps! No one is into making use of heavy duty cameras on location. Has everyine sold their mules and photographic wagon? This is really very sad.

 

[Nick Zentena]

Isn't that a pizza oven?

 

[Jorge]

I dont see what is the big deal, is only two inches bigger than a 20x24...Then again I can see Sean's wheels spinning so he can take life size pictures of bubba...

 

[shyguy]

Wimps! Has everyine sold their mules and photographic wagon?

In those rare times when i shlep my gear away from the car, i feel like a pack mule.

I have traded the mule and wagon in for a toyota sequoia. It smells better, and shits less.

S.

 

[John McCallum]

I've got a trailer. What are we waitin' for?

 

[livemoa]

Might be some lenses .....

 

[John McCallum]

Yes - good point. Though Sean's enlarger lens might act as a spare.

 

[Sean]

Ok John, Go get her! If you don't like it bring it over here and it can be a tree house for Amelia

 

[John McCallum]

 

[gareth harper]

Isn't that a pizza oven?

Nope I don't think so. It's probably an intergallactic black hole.

Mind you I do remember seeing a short article in AP here in the UK about a certain poloroid camera. I think it was a 20x26 inch camera. I cost something daft like 750 quid a day to hire, but came with three free frames per day. Crazy.

 

[Charles Webb]

We owned a twin to the one shown, dissassembled it and hauled it to the dump. Still use the vacuum back though!

 

[ChrisC]

I've got a trailer. What are we waitin' for?

About 8 of us to lift it

 

[hortense]

WOW!

 

[Ian]

Sorry, dont do small format. ;-)

 

[joeyk49]

Whaadayado??? Tape a whole box of 8x10 film together for one shot?!

Imagine playing Ansel Adams with THAT monster??? Imagine El Capitan or Half Dome as a freakin contact print!

 

[glbeas]

Well. yeah! I've seen where one enterprising individual mounted a process camera like that in the back of a van and shot 25x36 inch negs and contacted them. Even the magazine reproduction tone glowed, I don't know how. Took some gumption and skill to pull that off.

 

[joeyk49]

How about the size tank that you'd have to custom make to develop that bad boy neg...