View Toward the Orpheum Theater
From a parking ramp
In school we had to carry this camera around, all over the downtown area for a few hours a day. There were 3 of us, one would carry the camera, one of us the large wooden tripod, and the other the film. We would trade off when one would get tired. We would set up our shots (seemed like it took 1/2 an hour to focus), then tear it all down and move on. We did this quite a few days. Those cameras take extremely high quality pics, but sure give a person an appreciation of what old time photographers went through.
Very Big and Heavy Camera, a large format 8X10