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| | Camera Works: Photo Essay (washingtonpost.com) |
 | | The camera, dubbed Moby C, can produce pictures that are 40 inches wide and up to 106 inches long, or, to put that into better perspective: it can make a full-color, incredibly detailed life-sized, head-to-toe image of virtually any human being on the planet. |
 | | The invention and, frankly, the pride and joy, of the late Edwin Land, Polaroid's legendary founder, the camera had for years lived in the basement of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, where a bearded young photographer and technician Mark Sobczak saw to the monster machine's care and feeding. |
 | | He came up with the idea for the world's largest Polaroid camera in the late '70s and the camera was first introduced to wow the audience at a stockholders' meeting in Cambridge, Mass., Polaroid's corporate headquarters. |
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