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World's biggest camera captures — you guessed it — world's biggest photo

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Do you like your photos big? And I don't mean 8x10 big, or poster-size big, or even billboard big. I'm talking three-storeys-high big — the size of the image captured on Monday by the world's biggest camera, which, by the way, is actually an airplane hangar. If XXXXXXXXL pics are your bag, you may want get in touch with the folks behind The Legacy Project, who created the colossal camera and photo to get into the Guinness Book of World Records (they did).

Made of white fabric doused in light-sensitive chemicals, the big pic measures 31 feet tall and 111 feet wide. By darkening the hangar and exposing the fabric via a peephole in the doors, the Legacy crew created a massive camera obscura. "Snapping" the picture took 10 days, and they had to develop it an Olympic-level swimming pool with 600 gallons of developer. I'm guessing that didn't include a picture CD.

If you're passing through Pasedina, California, next month, the phat photo will be on display at the Art Center College of Design from Sept. 6th to the 29th.

The Legacy Project, via Spluch

 
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By shadowchild at 12:42 PM ON 08/16/07

When will we get to see the picture?

By swhall at 1:39 PM ON 08/16/07

600 gallons of developer in a swimming pool? I hope the developer was at least reused. What a waste and with no thought to the environmental consequences. Art usually makes a statement, and this one is just wasteful.

By charles17 at 8:03 AM ON 08/17/07

i agree... wasteful unless it is reused...

although last i checked, art center doesnt have a major photography department... not available as a major...

and pasedina is spelled incorrectly. it's pasadena... i didnt know where to send that info...

By sagedismal at 9:25 PM ON 08/17/07

Man I would hate to pose for that picture. 10 days later everyone would be tired of saying cheese by the time the picture finally snaps.

By Yelokehay! at 6:09 AM ON 04/01/09

Is fantastic!


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