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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;blooey, post: 943552, member: 12007&quot;]When I left art school, my first job was with a camera where the film was developed inside the camera back. The camera back was large enough for three of us to walk around, comfortably. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/confused.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":confused:" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>Focusing was done by moving the lens board with a 8&quot; crank wheel along a railway line and the subject was lit with four carbon arc lights. Exposures were generally in minutes or fractions thereof. The film came in huge sheets and one wall had a vacuum built into it that held the film sheet in place. I don&#039;t know the actual maker but the lens was a Rodenstock that dated from the 1880&#039;s. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie85" alt=":snaphappy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie85" alt=":snaphappy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/biggrin.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":D" unselectable="on" /></p><p>We made the printing plates for the local newspapers along with other stuff.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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