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A Kickstarter fund has been created for a project that revolves around photographing vanishing cultures with a camera the size of a truck
Photographer Dennis Manarchy is working on a project that is mind-blowing in scale, a 35-foot camera that produces two story tall prints, all in an attempt to capture some of the forgotten and evaporating societies of the United States. The project is called Vanishing Cultures, and Manarchy is raising funds through Kickstarter in what can only be described as a Herculean effort.
Manarchy has already constructed a prototype of the camera. It's 35-feet long, and creates 4.5-foot by 6-foot negatives, which are then used to create prints that are two stories tall. That's a tremendous amount of detail captured in a single image, unlike anything else you can imagine. The technical shooting itself is also understandably hard. In an interview with Film's Not Dead, Manarchy described his technique:
On this new camera, to get enough lighting set up and having enough power in the lights has taken me at least 4-5 months. The ISO is 3 for this camera, so you can imagine how much power and light it takes to make an exposure. The lens starts at F11 and I need to be at about F32 to get enough depth of focus so it needs a ton of light. Even developing the negative is a lengthy process. The darkroom itself is about 80 feet long in order to get the trays set up big enough to develop a negative.
On the Kickstarter page, he also explains how it takes two
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