jonnyapple said:
As yoda says, alpha, hate leads to suffering. Do you not consume anything, then? You know what yoda said about glass houses and throwing stones. Or was that Confucious? I'm a consumer and I vote.

Blah blah blah...

:^P

alphanikonrex said:
WARNING WARNING WE HAVE A CONSUMER ON THE FORUM!!!

I hate blasted consumers! They can't tell a megapixel from a megabyte!

As yoda says, alpha, hate leads to suffering. Do you not consume anything, then? You know what yoda said about glass houses and throwing stones. Or was that Confucious? I'm a consumer and I vote.

I guess that's bigger than the George R Lawrence camera:

http://robroy.dyndns.info/lawrence/mammoth.html

And the Lawrence camera wasn't so portable.

Yeah well consumers carry the company, DUH. How else would they make money

NSXType-R said:
MEGAPIXELS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT CAMERA SPEC!!!!!!

WARNING WARNING WE HAVE A CONSUMER ON THE FORUM!!!

I hate blasted consumers! They can't tell a megapixel from a megabyte!

NikoDoby said:
4 or 5 mp :^)

My D40 can beat that then.

MEGAPIXELS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT CAMERA SPEC!!!!!!

alphanikonrex said:
Which camera is how many megapixels? Or am I missing a joke here? :^)

Wouldn't be the first time :^)

Which camera is how many megapixels? Or am I missing a joke here? :^)

4 or 5 mp :^)

So how many megapixels is that?

I don't do enough B&W either. So then I'll try processing B&W medium format film this summer :^)

I have a few rolls of 35mm that I wouldn't mind killing, but they're color which means it'll only make life more difficult :^(

Notice that his photos are all B&W though. That's because what I said above only applies to B&W. Color processing is a totally different and more complex animal. Medium format is fun it's just that things get expensive real quick when you're fooling around with that format.

That's one of those things I really ought to try. I also want to try medium format, so I would be fairly easy to combine the two in one I think :^)

I'll add medium format film processing to my list of things to do in Summer 2010...

It's fairly easy nothing too difficult besides handling the large size. It can be done by one person. That's how he gets all those rough edges around the photo. The darkroom can be a lot of fun!

It must take a few people, at least. And then how do you get the timing right and all? I think it's much too easy to mess up!

Seriously though you have to process it yourself in very large tanks. That's why each of his prints is so unique.

In a darkroom, DUH :^)

My question is how/where do they process the film???

I remember this from back in 2007

http://www.cameratruck.es/?page=project

I think the hard part is making/getting the film/paper for such a large pinhole.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nC3Tu9JxI3g&feature=player_embedded

alphanikonrex said:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2009/11/the_worlds_largest_camera_is_o.html

You have to say, pretty creative!

You changed it to PORTABLE, sneaky

Pete

How does it compare with the Hubble? Now that's a big camera and lens!

Here is the Hanger Pinhole camera

http://www.legacyphotoproject.com/

Pete

Being a truck it's got some advantages and he does have a creative eye, but not the biggest :P

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinhole_camera#World.27s_largest_pinhole_camera

Not sure about it's current status, but NASA was considering the concept:

"The basic building block of the New Worlds Imager is a pair of spacecraft, a starshade and a collector, that function together as a single pinhole camera. The starshade serves as the pinhole for the camera, though the entire shade will be a kilometer (0.6 miles) or more in diameter, with a hole about 10 meters (10 yards) across punched in the center."

http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/newworlds/new_worlds_imager.html