Ideal leaf shutter lens for DIY panoramic 35mm camera?

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I've been toying with the idea of building a panoramic 35mm camera in order to learn 3d printing, and also because who doesn't want a 35mm panoramic camera?

1. What I would be building is a panoramic box with a lens mount, film advance, and a basic frame viewfinder so i know i'm pointing it in the right direction
2. Add some lens with an image circle that covers 24mmx65mm
3. Focusing would be by external means (use an external rangefinder and transfer to lens).

My current plan is to combine these two thingiverse.com models:

I would take the Panoramic shell and winding mechanisms from here: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1388765

And graft on the medium format lens mount from this one: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:705782/

Both of these are modifications of Cirion's 35mm pinhole camera here so it should be fairly easy to combine them:
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:531244/

After combining would have to adjust lens to film plane registration etc. of course.

Lens would need to have focus, aperture, and a leaf shutter.

What would be an ideal lens for this kind of project? Would a 6x4.5 folder lens work well? What's the widest angle lens from a folder?
 
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What's a 3D-camera? Do you mean a curved film plane? In that case, that won't work with a lens that's made for a flat film plane.
A lens from a folder would generally not cover much more than the format of the camera it came on. Lenses with wider image circles tend to be more costly to make.
 
Folders didn't have wideangle lenses. A 6x4.5 folder usually has a 75mm lens, which is quite long for a panorama (24x65 is just the middle band of a Rolleiflex frame). The shortest medium format lens that would cover what you want to do (within a reasonable budget) is a 47/8 Super Angulon, usually found in dodgy Compur 00 shutters. If you scrounge, you should be able to find the lens unit from a Brooks Veriwide 100, which includes the lens, shutter, and click-stopped focusing helicoid.
 
Retinax - sorry meant to type 35mm instead of 3D there. Post updated.

Dante - I agree. 75mm is pretty long. I have seen the 47mm super angulon, but have been a little put off by the price for what is going to be a backyard hack job!

Am I being unrealistic thinking there might be something out there to fit what I'm looking for?
 
The 35mm PC-Nikkor will cover 24 x 65mm. I have used mine, with adapter, on my XPAN.

The 28mm PC-Nikkor works but does does not have quite enough image circle to fill the 65mm width. Still, it can be worth using for the enormous angle of view. The curved edges don't look bad--or you can crop a little.

Oh, never mind, it is not a leaf shutter lens.
 
the mamiya sekor 50mm f/6.3 would work, and they're not too hard to find. the 63mm f/6.3 is more plentiful if that's not too long.
 
I have a 47 f8 SA on my Veriwide and it's excellent. Look for a copy made by Ilex. I know they made a 65mm f8 copy of the super Angulon and think they made a 47 but can't be sure. The 65 Ilex and Super Angulons go for under $200 and usually around $160 but you'll need to get a Schneider focusing mount.

There were 65mm angulons and Wollensak wide angles made too. They're really cheap and cover 2x3. The focusing mount is the problem.
 
This may mean some playing around.

I have tried a range of lenses on my 4x5 camera. That includes a 75mm off a 6x6 folder that does 4 but not 5 inches (100mm but not 125).

Frankly it gets a bit scarey when you realise just how wide the 35mm wides can be. My example above equals a touch over 20mm in 35mm equivalent.

Doing that kind of mucking about you want to find a shuttered 50ish mm lens off a cheap folder.
 
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