World’s Largest Photo!
Breaking news in the photography world! An old empty hangar (I am assuming they mean an airplane hangar) was converted into a camera and after drilling a gumball sized hole in one wall. Six photographers then positioned a 28 foot x 108 foot canvas on the opposite wall. The hole was then opened and light was allowed to expose the gigantic sheet for roughly 35 minutes. Apparently, the job of developing the shot wasn’t easy either as 30 additional volunteers were needed to move the huge canvas into an equally huge tray for developing the black and white image. All this was done in an effort to memorialize the El Toro Marine Corp Base in Irvine, CA, which was decommissioned in 1999, utilizing a principle called camera obscura (Latin for dark room!).
This practice is often used in pinhole cameras to view an eclipse so you don’t hurt your eyes. While fairly large building-sized pinhole cameras have been assembled from time to time (one even exists as close as UNC Chapel Hill in NC), this is the first time an airplane hanger has been put into use in such a fashion. To read about pinhole cameras and the principle of camera obscura, follow this link here: Camera Obscura Explained
Sorry no image to post, but the Fox News article that reported the story, is available here: World’s Largest Photo
I have a friend that has a medium format camera, and another who has a large format camera, but I know of no one that has a camera the size of an airplane hangar! I wonder how much a DSLR that size would cost? 
