For his entry to The Hackaday Prize, [Jimmy.c..alzen] decided to build a digital large format camera, using an interesting device you don’t see used very often these days – a linear CCD.

This format is often demanded by clients for use on billboards or in calendars ... with a wide-angle lens attached to a large-format view camera. Camera movement usually found on large format ...

If you are [Tim Hamilton], the solution is obvious. Use it in a huge large-format camera. The lens came from a newspaper magnifier made redundant by digitalisation and used as a paperweight.