World's largest photograph?

OK, so what was the world's largest photograph ever taken? FILM

photograph, that is. On a SINGLE negative.

 

http://aslanivo.wordpress.com/2005/12/22/try-hanging-that-in-your-living-room/<div></div>

You should have seen the enlarger built for those negatives

Stop:-)

Kodak Colorama - Grand Central

 

http://www.kodak.com/US/en/corp/features/coloramas/colorama.html

How about the 40x106" Polaroid in New York?<div></div>

While they aren't the largest ever, I remember seeing something about some pictures that were taken after the great San Fran earthquake on glass plates which were 4 feet across. What DID make the feat incredible is that they were taken from *kites* flying over the city!

 

steve

I was reading up a bit on the Lawrence Captive Airship just now. He apparently used negative film for that, about 20"x48" sheets, curved, with a rotating lens. Same guy that did the train shot did this.

One of the links on my blog is to a longish article on Lawrence's camera that was used to take that photograph of SF post-quake. Apparently, he made some very interesting alterations to the shutter to ensure depth of field to get the horizon sharp: The shutter hole was opened more in the bottom than on the top! The stuff he did --lifting cameras with 17 kits and reloading it in midair?? The man was a real genius.

 

The link's here somewhere

http://aslanivo.wordpress.com/2005/12/22/try-hanging-that-in-your-living-room/

oh and the picture I posted way above is of Lawrence's railroad camera.

I have a book called Panoramic Photography by Joseph Meehan. In it he refers to a 1904 panorama print measuring 5 ft by 40 ft long depicting the Gulf of Naples. This single print was made from six separate 8 1/4 X 10 1/2 inch negs through an enlarger onto the bromide paper. The print was processed on a vertical wheel of 41 ft circumference. The processing solutions were in three troughs which ran on a railway line under the huge print wheel. Then the print was washed in a 50 ft trough holding 3000 gals of water. The whole process was done in the open and at night. <p> Maybe not the biggest negatives but one huge print.

Wow thanks for the inspiration. I had no clue about such big cameras.

You really don't need a large negative to produce a large print, just a good pixal interpolation program ;)<div></div>