On Sat, 12 Oct 2002, William Robb wrote: > > I wonder how many megabytes it would take to compete with a > 20x24 negative. > There are only a handful of those cameras in existence, less > than a dozen I am sure, and I think closer to a half dozen.
According to an article I read in Camera Arts, there's two different 20x24 Polaroid cameras..The one you're thinking of, which weights close to 240#, and then evidently Wisner or someone else has started to produce a smaller, 50# (oh, that's portable!) version. > Polaroid originally rented them, and a technician to operate > then to well heeled photographers. I believe Playboy magazine > was playing with one for a while for oversized centrefolds, but > they stayed with the 11x17 Deardorff which has been the > centrefold camera since the beginning of the magazine. Really? I didn't know their centerfolds were LF, that's kinda neat.. I'd actually really like to look at some for, uhm, technical reasons now, but I don't think that answer wouldflyu.
