ALASTAIR THAIN Best known for his astonishingly ultra-highresolution portraits, shot with custom-made cameras, military lenses and outsize satellite reconnaissance film, and printed up to 3m high, Alastair Thain has made a long career shooting commercial and editorial commissions alongside personal work. For his Sunburn series, he made one of his biggest cameras yet - a 30×40 monster using five ex-military aerial reconnaissance lenses, which cost the US Army tens of thousands of pounds to make but which he picked up for $950 on Ebay.n "Large-format plate cameras traditionally used focal plane shutters - basically a roller blind with a slit in the middle - which moves in a way determined by the set shutter speed," he says.
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