The New Bridge - accessible for everyone

Woman in wheel chair with friends
Crossing the Western Span of the San Francisco Bay Bridge

"Point and shoot" photography with an 8 x 10" View Camera  (Ansel Adams size, the kind with the dark cloth)

Note on photography: the fall off on the corners shows how the lens renders a circular image on teh 8x  10" sheet  film;  this is cropped in slightly; the circular image is about 7.5". This lens also has extreme depth of field, so that the 8x10" camera could be prefocused  and thus used as a "point and shoot" camera:  Aim, Load, Pull the dark slide, and click the shutter. This is not easy to do on a massive bridge keep in mind, especially when you are pushing a monster camera on a dolly in a traffic lane with hoovering CHP not super amused with the rig.

Camera: 8x10 view camera, 75mm super Angulon, pre-focused,
Film: color negative

Capture: film

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bennetthall/1563213193/in/set-72157626793740417/

The Cone Heads are Out and About

Construction is underway...

8x10 view camera on dolly pushed across
San Francisco Bay Bridge Bridgewalk, 1980

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bennetthall/9602452204/

That's All folks...

Step away from the Bridge

 

CHP Officer, Western Span, Bridgewalk, 1980

8 x 10" view camera, candid shot

Perhaps the world's only 'point and shoot' 8 x 10" photography, employing a pre-set focus with a 75mm super Angulon.  I knew I would have zero time for the traditional dark cloth and focus loop - ultimately as I predicated, I was forced into the CHP car, but not before I had made it all the way to mid-cantilever section on the decline into Oakland.  Persistence. #8x10 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bennetthall/9617013657