35mm adapter?

[Unregistered]

I know there is a 35mm adapter available for the Mamiya 7 camera. Anybody heard if any clever guy made one for the beloved Fuji rangefinders?

 

[Doug]

Well, I've heard tell of someone making his own... Take an empty 120 spool and build up the outer parts to leave a 35mm film width area in the center to guide the film as itwraps around the spool. Then make a couple spacers to hold a 35mm film cartridge centered in the feed area. The film will have no guide rails across the film gate, but will be supported reasonably well by the pressure plate. You'll have to load and unload the camera in a changing bag or darkroom, but it apparently works. You could even mask the viewfinder window with opaque tape...

If you just want a pano-format image and are not dedicated to actually using 35mm film, it's really easy to just crop a pano-format section of your 120/220 film image. Like the pic below, which was shot 6x7 and cropped top & bottom to XPan proportions...