{"id":574,"date":"2006-06-18T22:21:26","date_gmt":"2006-06-19T02:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=574"},"modified":"2006-06-19T21:18:43","modified_gmt":"2006-06-20T01:18:43","slug":"the-worlds-largest-disposable-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=574","title":{"rendered":"The world&#8217;s largest disposable camera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Everyone<\/strong> knows that you can judge how good a photographer is by the size of their camera, right?<\/p>\n<p>Okay, well of course that&#8217;s not true.  But the Chicago tribune reports that a group of seven photographers from the legacy project are saying that size matters anyway.  They&#8217;ve converted an old aircraft hangar into <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/nationworld\/chi-0606150157jun15,1,2834107.story\">one giant camera obscura<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The photographers are using a nearly 31-by-111-foot piece of white fabric covered in 20 gallons of light-sensitive emulsion as the &#8220;negative.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After exposing the fabric for up to 10 days, they will develop it in a huge tub made of pool siding, using 200 gallons of black-and-white developer solution and 600 gallons of fixer.<\/p>\n<p>The photographers joke that they also are making the world&#8217;s largest disposable camera. When they are done, the hangar will be torn down.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No doubt, such a sizeable camera will probably produce quite a clear photograph.  I just worry that the camera&#8217;s lack of permanence might rub off on the negative: how does one care for such a huge photograph?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone knows that you can judge how good a photographer is by the size of their camera, right? Okay, well of course that&#8217;s not true. But the Chicago tribune reports that a group of seven photographers from the legacy project are saying that size matters anyway. They&#8217;ve converted an old aircraft hangar into one giant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets-widgits-and-whatzits","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}