Some time ago thru' a www.bing.com search I came to know about Josip Klarica, an eminent photographer from Croatia. The opening page of his website http://obscuranova.com pointed to the great collection of cameras he has and particularly the two handmade panoramic cameras drew my attention.
This Panoramatic camera, handmade by Mr. Josip Klarica is a replica of the "Camera Megascope", a large format panoramic camera constructed by Friedrich Martens of Paris in 1845.
The format of the negative produced is 18X60 cm !!!. The lens is a vintage Symmetric anastigmat 210 mm made by A. Ross ,of London in 1932. The exposure is made by manually turning the lens. Materials for construction include wood, leather and cardboard.
You can have an idea how big the camera ( marked #7 in his webpage) is by looking at this picture. Quite obviously due to the huge size of the negatives the pictures they yield are also simply fascinating.
Mr. Clarica has a very distinctive style of photography and to know more details of it visit his website http://obscuranova.com and this link.
I thank Mr. Klarica very much for providing the detailed description and so many high resolution photographs of this camera. You can download and view the rest of the pictures in a ~17MB zipped file from here. Please note that the copyright for the photographs of the camera belong to Josip Klarica and you need his permission(s) for using any of them.
