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The world's largest camera: 6 meters long, weighing 635 kg

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The world's largest camera: 6 meters long, weighing 635 kg

For people who love taking pictures and photography, the camera is an essential tool, in most people's minds, the camera is a kind of anti-shoulder or hanging around the neck of the photographic tools. The world's largest camera, which is 6 meters long and weighs 635 meters, is a super-large camera, specially prepared for the largest photos. May 05, 2024

The world's largest camera


Generally everyone uses the camera, can easily hang around the neck or on the shoulder. The world's largest camera, which is 6 meters long and weighs 635 kilograms, was invented back in 1900, this behemoth is the world's largest camera, it is designed specifically for the "Alton Company" to take the world's largest photos, the Alton Company was jokingly referred to as "the most beautiful train in the world".

The world's largest camera is said to be a giant camera that took 2 months to build and is 6 meters long and weighs 635 kg. This camera uses natural cherry wood as the body, and a small track with two focusing screens and a curtain panel bracket. Such a huge camera handling is very difficult, need to train towing, in order to transport it to the shooting place.

After arriving at the location, the super-sized camera required 15 camera crew members to collaborate with each other to complete the installation, taking 2.5 minutes of exposure. This largest camera is designed for the largest photos, it is called "the world's most beautiful train", because it is as big as a small train general.

It is said that this camera has two oversized lenses, which were specially designed and customized by Carl Zeiss for this camera. One of the two lenses is a 1676 mm wide-angle lens and the other is a 3048 mm telephoto lens. The lens is said to be used to take photos of trains, and it was a big project that took a lot of time from handling to installation.

When this camera is fully extended, the base of the camera is as long as 6 meters and weighs 635 pounds, so it can be described as a behemoth. It is about to say that it is very rare, although it is not used to take beautiful pictures of people, but it is really quite useful. And such a large volume of the camera, whether it was before or now, are very rare.

 

 

 

 

 

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