Chris McCaw, a photographer, once sold his old camera for financial reasons to pay the rent, and then spent $150 to build a replacement. Since then, he has been making his own cameras, and the cameras he has made have gotten bigger and bigger, the largest of which is the 30 by 40 inch giant camera shown here.
In a blog post, Chris McCaw revealed that building the camera himself was a difficult journey. "Sometimes you dream of owning a high-end camera, but you have to face the reality," he said. He said the process of building the giant camera made him believe that if you put your imagination and perseverance to good use, you can do anything you want. "I had the confidence that I could build any camera I needed," he says. That's why he built what his friends call the "wheelchair camera," a giant camera with lenses from an abandoned U2 spy plane that needed wheels to move the 125-pound aerial camera lens. Chris McCaw says the current camera is capable of taking 16x20 inch pictures. The power of dreams is so powerful!