Cameras....many types of it.
The common ones that we see are usually.....the common ones la...like normal compact cameras and DSLRs. But for this post, it'll be totally uncommon aka RARE.
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As usual, you can click on the pics for a bigger view.
Firstly, Polaroid 20x24'' Camera
The average film camera has for the last 50 years used either 120 rollfilm or so-called 135 film, 135 being by far the most commonly used type. Each frame of 135 film is 36x24 milimeters, while the average consumer dSLR camera today has a sensor size of approximately 60% of this, around 23x15 milimeters. The sensors in digital compacts are much smaller still. Within this tiny space, the camera and its lens has to compress the vast amount of detail visible to the human eye. The resulting replications of reality are far from perfect, they can't be.
One way of partially overcoming this problem is quite simply to use larger film formats or digital sensors. Within the digital realm, the 48x36mm sensor size available in certain medium format digital backs is pretty much as large as it gets without substantial R&D resources (like what a major corporation, national government or army might have at their disposal).
In film, things are a bit simpler. While constructing huge digital sensors is a challenging task, creating a huge sheet of film or photographic paper is really – simply put – just a matter of making it bigger than usual, and building a camera large enough to house it.
The biggest 'instant' camera I know of is Polaroid's 20x24'' behemot. It's 1.5 meters tall and weighs in at 106 kilos. The Polaroid paper sheets used in this camera is, as the name implies, 20 x 24'', which equals 50x60 cm. Keeping in mind that the aforementioned 135 film is a mere 3.6 x 2.4 cm, it's easy to see why such a larger-than-life camera would be capable of producing prints of far superior detail compared to smaller formats. The amount of detail that can be capture is awesome....including embarassing details, like...u noe yourself.....haha.
Next, I'm sure many of you photographers have taken panoramic shots like these either using wide-angled lenses or using certain softwares to stitch them up together like these pics:-
Pictures taken with wide angled lenses are recorded in the sensor at once, resulting in lower quality and detail. The solution?
Presenting to you.............. the Seitz 6x17'' digital panoramic camera.
Instead of the common digital camera sensor which records the entire scene at once, the Seitz 6x17'' uses a scanner to literally scan the view through the lens. The end result is 160 megapixel images in a panoramic format. It does the job a bit faster than your average flatbed scanner though, recording a full-sized frame (21 250 x 7500 pixels) in two seconds. It's big, it's heavy (5 kilos if you wish to use it outside a studio) and quite silly, but it turns out huge, amazing photos – and it should, cost as it does........$42 000.
Next, Hasselblad H3DII
Swedish camera manufacturer Hasselblad (or "'blad" as they are often called) has for a long time been ranked among the very best when it comes to cameras. Indeed, NASA's space programme chose Hasselblad as their camera provider, and three Hasseblads where carried aboard the Apollo 11 mission, perhaps the company's most famous feat.
Priced at around $40 000, a Hasselblad H3DII with a 39 megapixel backpiece is one of the most expensive photo kits available in ordinairy retail sale. It's fairly large, fabulously expensive and capable of creating huge, extremely detailed image files with its 39 megapixel, 48x36mm sensor.
For photographing your cat, you can probably make do without this camera, but if you're shooting supermodels for Vogue, you might just need a camera of this caliber. If you ever watch TV shows like "Top Model", there's a fair chance you'll see a 'blad involved in a shoot every now and then. Real good camera in terms of quality.
Moving on, a Cameratruck
A pinhole camera is perhaps the simplest kind of camera there is. You make a tiny hole in an otherwise light-sealed container, but in a sheet of film or other photo-sensitive media, point it towards what you want to photograph and let light pass through the hole for a set period of time. The reflected light will, just like the light reflected through the lens of an ordinairy camera result in a photo, be it through a digital sensor or on a piece of film.
Pretty much any container can be made into a pinhole camera; the more outlandish the better – the Pringles Cam,Spam Cam and Trashcan Cam are just a few examles I've seen.
But it could also be built out of a box truck, which is exactly what an inventive bunch of spaniards and americans did. By drilling a hole in its side and attaching huge sheets of photographic paper (100x30 cm) to the inside of a truck, they created a huge mobile and ultimately portable pinhole camera.
Finally, the biggest camera u ever seen before. Totally not portable, takes a long long real long time to move to another place.....The Great Picture.
Why stop at a truck, when you could convert an entire airplane hangar into a pinhole camera? While the Cameratruck above is touted as the world's largest mobile camera, this hangar is certified by the Guinness Book of Records as the largest camera in existance, albeit immobile.
It's basically an old hangar building at the disused El Toro Marine Corps Air Station in Southern California, which has been made light tight to ensure no light gets in except through the little pinhole in one of the hangar's sides. To create the image alluringly described as "The Great Picture", a huge sheet of made-to-order canvas was suspended inside the hangar and coated in 80 litres of Liquid Light, making it photosensitive.
The exposure time of the world's largest camera was set to aproximately 35 minutes, after which the canvas was chemically developed (in a pool of 2300 litres of developer – photography at this scale does not come cheap!) into the world's largest photo, 313 square meters (3375 square feet) in size.
Compare that to a standard 135 film frame, which you might remember from earlier on in the article is 36x24 milimeters, equalling 8.64 square centimeters, or 0.00864 square meters. Incase you dont understand numbers, it just says that the image recorded by this "camera" is real HUGE.
The common ones that we see are usually.....the common ones la...like normal compact cameras and DSLRs. But for this post, it'll be totally uncommon aka RARE.
Click Read more to read more.
As usual, you can click on the pics for a bigger view.
Firstly, Polaroid 20x24'' Camera
The average film camera has for the last 50 years used either 120 rollfilm or so-called 135 film, 135 being by far the most commonly used type. Each frame of 135 film is 36x24 milimeters, while the average consumer dSLR camera today has a sensor size of approximately 60% of this, around 23x15 milimeters. The sensors in digital compacts are much smaller still. Within this tiny space, the camera and its lens has to compress the vast amount of detail visible to the human eye. The resulting replications of reality are far from perfect, they can't be.
One way of partially overcoming this problem is quite simply to use larger film formats or digital sensors. Within the digital realm, the 48x36mm sensor size available in certain medium format digital backs is pretty much as large as it gets without substantial R&D resources (like what a major corporation, national government or army might have at their disposal).
In film, things are a bit simpler. While constructing huge digital sensors is a challenging task, creating a huge sheet of film or photographic paper is really – simply put – just a matter of making it bigger than usual, and building a camera large enough to house it.
The biggest 'instant' camera I know of is Polaroid's 20x24'' behemot. It's 1.5 meters tall and weighs in at 106 kilos. The Polaroid paper sheets used in this camera is, as the name implies, 20 x 24'', which equals 50x60 cm. Keeping in mind that the aforementioned 135 film is a mere 3.6 x 2.4 cm, it's easy to see why such a larger-than-life camera would be capable of producing prints of far superior detail compared to smaller formats. The amount of detail that can be capture is awesome....including embarassing details, like...u noe yourself.....haha.
Next, I'm sure many of you photographers have taken panoramic shots like these either using wide-angled lenses or using certain softwares to stitch them up together like these pics:-
Pictures taken with wide angled lenses are recorded in the sensor at once, resulting in lower quality and detail. The solution?
Presenting to you.............. the Seitz 6x17'' digital panoramic camera.
Instead of the common digital camera sensor which records the entire scene at once, the Seitz 6x17'' uses a scanner to literally scan the view through the lens. The end result is 160 megapixel images in a panoramic format. It does the job a bit faster than your average flatbed scanner though, recording a full-sized frame (21 250 x 7500 pixels) in two seconds. It's big, it's heavy (5 kilos if you wish to use it outside a studio) and quite silly, but it turns out huge, amazing photos – and it should, cost as it does........$42 000.
Next, Hasselblad H3DII
Swedish camera manufacturer Hasselblad (or "'blad" as they are often called) has for a long time been ranked among the very best when it comes to cameras. Indeed, NASA's space programme chose Hasselblad as their camera provider, and three Hasseblads where carried aboard the Apollo 11 mission, perhaps the company's most famous feat.
Priced at around $40 000, a Hasselblad H3DII with a 39 megapixel backpiece is one of the most expensive photo kits available in ordinairy retail sale. It's fairly large, fabulously expensive and capable of creating huge, extremely detailed image files with its 39 megapixel, 48x36mm sensor.
For photographing your cat, you can probably make do without this camera, but if you're shooting supermodels for Vogue, you might just need a camera of this caliber. If you ever watch TV shows like "Top Model", there's a fair chance you'll see a 'blad involved in a shoot every now and then. Real good camera in terms of quality.
Moving on, a Cameratruck
A pinhole camera is perhaps the simplest kind of camera there is. You make a tiny hole in an otherwise light-sealed container, but in a sheet of film or other photo-sensitive media, point it towards what you want to photograph and let light pass through the hole for a set period of time. The reflected light will, just like the light reflected through the lens of an ordinairy camera result in a photo, be it through a digital sensor or on a piece of film.
Pretty much any container can be made into a pinhole camera; the more outlandish the better – the Pringles Cam,Spam Cam and Trashcan Cam are just a few examles I've seen.
But it could also be built out of a box truck, which is exactly what an inventive bunch of spaniards and americans did. By drilling a hole in its side and attaching huge sheets of photographic paper (100x30 cm) to the inside of a truck, they created a huge mobile and ultimately portable pinhole camera.
Finally, the biggest camera u ever seen before. Totally not portable, takes a long long real long time to move to another place.....The Great Picture.
Why stop at a truck, when you could convert an entire airplane hangar into a pinhole camera? While the Cameratruck above is touted as the world's largest mobile camera, this hangar is certified by the Guinness Book of Records as the largest camera in existance, albeit immobile.
It's basically an old hangar building at the disused El Toro Marine Corps Air Station in Southern California, which has been made light tight to ensure no light gets in except through the little pinhole in one of the hangar's sides. To create the image alluringly described as "The Great Picture", a huge sheet of made-to-order canvas was suspended inside the hangar and coated in 80 litres of Liquid Light, making it photosensitive.
The exposure time of the world's largest camera was set to aproximately 35 minutes, after which the canvas was chemically developed (in a pool of 2300 litres of developer – photography at this scale does not come cheap!) into the world's largest photo, 313 square meters (3375 square feet) in size.
Compare that to a standard 135 film frame, which you might remember from earlier on in the article is 36x24 milimeters, equalling 8.64 square centimeters, or 0.00864 square meters. Incase you dont understand numbers, it just says that the image recorded by this "camera" is real HUGE.
