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This image was photographed with a 1200mm Red Dot Artar in Zeiss 5FS electronic shutter, mounted on a Linhoff Bi-Kardan 4x5 monorail camera fitted with a custom bellows that attached to a 5 x 24 inch format panoramic camera back on its own mounting block. A woodmaking friend and I built


...A woodmaking friend and I built the camera...

the camera back in a cooperative effort, utilizing hardware cannibalized from Cirkut, Roundshot, and Linhoff cameras. Three feet of 5 inch film is spooled with trailer and leader onto machined down Cirkut spools. One shot is taken and wound off, to be unwound in the darkroom and trimmed down to 120 film length, then processed by a dip and dunk lab on a special film hanger. Special order Ektachrome 100 Plus transparency film was used, exposed at 1/8th second exposure at f45. This format was designed to be drum scanned to produce murals of great detail.

 

 

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