Fragments From Floyd

This is what DT tells me in regards to camera lenses and megapixel capacity. And he has gone about as far along this way as one can go. But not quite. THere is one camera that, far as I know, Doug doesn't have yet. But I figure, it's only a matter of time. It's called the R-1, made the garage of Clifford Ross. I'd seen Ross's work (on waves and water) in Orion, but you gotta take a look at the resolution of his Goldbergian camera!

The camera, called the R-1 (R for Ross), looks oddly rigged, like something out of Dr. Seuss, and almost like an antique viewfinder camera on legs. In fact, Mr. Ross pulls a cloth over his head and the back of his contraption when he takes a picture. But with this camera that he concocted out of 60-year-old camera parts, mirrors, a microscope and other items - none of them digital - Mr. Ross has taken photographs on 9-by-18-inch negatives that when slowly processed by hand and digitally scanned contain 100 times as much data as the average professional digital camera.

Some of the images from this camera are here. Wow. (Thanks for linkage, Stanley!)