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@_dallasmarley_ This camera could technically be considered a large format camera because the negatives are so huge. It’s a Linhof Technorama 617. Made in Germany. It shoots 6x17 centimeters on regular 120 roll film. That’s about three times as wide as it is tall, so every frame comes out as a giant panoramic strip. A 4x5 sheet of large format film is smaller than one of these negatives. And you only get four shots per roll. Four. A normal medium format camera gives you 10 to 16 on the same roll. Here, each frame eats up a huge chunk of the film, so every click costs you. You can’t spray and pray with this thing. The lens is a 90mm Schneider Super Angulon, and it’s built right into the camera. It’s a wide angle, and on a frame this big it gives you roughly the view of a 22mm lens on a 35mm camera. Super wide, but sharp from edge to edge. It opens up to f/5.6, so it’s not a fast lens, but it doesn’t need to be. It’s made to be shot outside in good light. One thing about it is that wide lenses like this tend to get darker toward the edges of the frame. A lot of people use a center filter to even that out. When you hold one of these negatives up to the light, it looks like a movie screen. Is it practical? No. Is it slow? Yes. But it makes you slow down and think about every frame, and I love that about it. Four shots. Make them count.
