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Originally Posted by Steve Carlton
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The company I worked at had several 4x5 versions of those. For the large format (9x9) inch images) camera we had was too heavy for any human to pickup. The lens alone was 200 pounds, and the camera was 150.
We usually had two men to put the 200 pound lens in the Cessna 206 that came with a 24 inch hole in the floor from the factory. A gyroscopic 100 pound camera mount was bolted to the floor to accept the lens and the camera, and the two film magazines. The film was 9 inches wide and basically 500 feet long.
It was a Wild, RC-30 and it was only $490,000.
