"Pennsylvania Avenue Subway" Tunnel (Former Reading Railroad), Philadelphia, 2004.
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Captured with a Fuji GX680 camera, 80mm lens, T-Max 100 film. Some tilt was applied to control focus. It was very dark in there, and focusing required the use of a flashlight.
The Pennsylvania Avenue Subway was built to provide a sub-grade freight connection between the Reading Railroad's main line and its "City Branch". It served the Baldwin Locomotive Works' Callowhill plant and, later, the Philadelphia Inquirer's printing plant, among other Center City industries. Abandoned in the 1980's.
The GX680 was a fun but very unusual camera that couldn't quite decide what it wanted to be. It was a truly gigantic beast of a medium format SLR camera providing (limited) view camera movements. It used 120-format roll film with a 6x8cm frame (so a 3:4 aspect ratio), with a built-in autowinder. It's sort of what you'd get if you somehow merged a Nikon F4, a Hasselblad, and a Crown Graphic. Definitely not a point & shoot camera.
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Do you have the negative at hand? What is it's actual size in mm?
FWIW, the '85 Hasselblad 500CM here is 53x53mm, the '53 Rolleiflex T is 54x54 mm, and the no longer here Mamiya 7II was a seriously glorious 54x70 mm.
Although I've never used a GX680, I was photographed by one once (they were standard for wedding/family studio group photos here in Japan in the good old days).