Most of the photographs that are claimed to be the largest are usually stitched from smaller
images. The Legacy Project photograph made in Irvine, California is an exception to this in
that it was made as a single exposure on a seamless piece of sensitized fabric using a
building as a huge camera.

IRVINE, California -- Walk into the massive air hangar and the first thing you notice is an
oppressive darkness broken only by a tiny beam of light from a gumball-size hole in the wall.
Then, as the eye adjusts, an upside-down image emerges on the opposite wall that is startling
in its clarity -- a dilapidated air traffic control tower, an overgrown runway and palm trees
clustered amid rolling hills.
Once home to roaring fighter jets, this decommissioned Marine Corps hangar is now the
world's largest camera poised to take the world's largest picture. If all goes well, within days
the hangar-turned-camera will record a panoramic image of what's on the other side of the
door using the centuries-old principle of "camera obscura."
An image of the former El Toro Marine Corps Air Station will appear upside down and flipped
left to right on a sheath of light-sensitive fabric after being projected through the tiny hole in
the hangar's metal door. The fabric is the length of one-third of a football field and about three
stories tall.
Guinness World Records has created two new categories for the project -- world's largest
camera and world's largest photograph -- and will certify the records once the photo is
complete.