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.

but there are a few niches where film cameras reign supreme. Large format cameras, for example, are able to produce amazing images, but short of renting one for thousands of dollars a day ...

By the time I began my experiments, studio photographers and a handful of hardy outdoor types were already using higher end digital scanning backs on medium and large format cameras to produce ...