Rebecca Grambo 
, Jan 20, 2012; 11:31 a.m.
Walter Degroot 
, Jan 20, 2012; 11:42 a.m.
At ITT in nutley nj 1972,
they had a camera that was capable of 20 x 24 inches.
the back was in a darkroom and the front was in the next room
it looked like a giant view camera
the lens was 3: in diameter and they uses carbon ARC lights.
the front standard was motorized.
the "film holder" had a vacuum to keep the film flat.
Rebecca Grambo , Jan 20, 2012; 11:46 a.m.
I see Rick Drawbridge was way ahead of me on this. See his "Top of My Christmas List" thread below!
Bob Sunley 
, Jan 20, 2012; 11:50 a.m.
Looks like it is made from parts from a lithography plate camera for a broadsheet newspaper.
Most large newspapers had one in the 1970's.
jim jones , Jan 20, 2012; 12:18 p.m.
Whoever made the mockup wasn't much of a photographer or historian. The real camera (if ever finished) will be different. Dennis Manarchy's camera is much too late. More impressive is the camera George R. Lawrence had built in 1900, the age of iron men and wooden cameras http://robroy.dyndns.info/lawrence/mammoth.html.
David Barts , Jan 20, 2012; 12:44 p.m.
Large, but not even close to the largest camera:
(link)
Winfried Buechsenschuetz , Jan 20, 2012; 01:31 p.m.
I remember I once met a guy who told me that his father had a company making cameras to produce the printing plates for advertising panels, these cameras must have had a similar film format.
Cameras for the printing business may have extreme dimensions, and cameras stretching over two rooms (one of them rather a darkroom for inserting the plates, focussing etc.) are not unusual in that business.
Bob Sunley , Jan 20, 2012; 02:37 p.m.
Kris Bochenek 
, Jan 20, 2012; 04:23 p.m.
The company I work for aquired NuArc (the division where I work) and I know they made some cameras back in the 60's and 70's pretty interesting stuff.
Ron Gratz , Jan 20, 2012; 05:32 p.m.
Let me know when the digital version comes out.
Ron Gratz
