!20/35mm contraption

[Red Robin]

Hi Folks, I was perusing the Web today and came upon an ad for a converter"that let's you use 35mm film in ANY 120 type camera !" So my eyes looked over to my unused-by-me Sawyer's IV . Yeah, the one that uses film from Croatia (+shipping) and gives me the chance to mail off my efforts to far-away places. Has anyone used and obtained good results from a device like that, or is it "too good to be true. It sure would be nice to use that beautiful old camera. Red Robin

 

[Alpacaman]

I thought you could use 35mm film in most 120 film cameras anyway. You just put some blocks of film in to hold the canister in the middle of the spool chamber, and thread the film through to an empty spool on the other side. This way needs to be unloaded in the dark, however.

I have a feeling any contraption to let you use 35mm film in a 120 camera would simply be a variation on this.

 

[Doug]

I have such a "contraption" for my P67, consisting of four metal cassette spacers, a film plane mask and a focusing screen mask. No way to rewind film of course, so you can either take up the exposed film into another cassette, or change film in a dark space. Even with the takeup cassette you'd probably want dark changing, as otherwise you lose most or all of the final exposure.

Overall, it's a pain to use, but kinda fun to see the results. But you can achieve the same result much more easily by cropping the top, bottom, or both in a regular roll of 120/220.

The main disadvantage of that is you don't have access to some preferred 35mm film, and the advantage that the cropping can be arranged to effectively "shift" up or down to reduce or eliminate converging verticals.