Is there such a camera?

[Kubiksovs]

Is there a camera that uses medium format film (120, 6x6) and uses 35mm format lenses? I'm thinking of creating pictures that have circular images. 🙂
Something like this, but with film - http://www.dpreview.com/news/2009/9/15/hartbleicam

 

[pakeha]

I do know that there is a Mamiya adapter that allows lens from 645 to be used on 35mm. Might be somewhere to research.
Failing that..small teacup saucer for small prints, dustbin lid for large prints🙂

 

[DaveO]

The image circle of the 35mm lenses would not cover the entire film area.

 

[Kubiksovs]

The image circle of the 35mm lenses would not cover the entire film area.

That's the whole point.

 

[DaveO]

I didn't think of that!

 

[sevo]

Not as a dedicated camera body. I suppose anybody who ever wanted something like that simply attached a bayonet adapter ring (e.g. from a interchangeable mount bellows system) to a view camera base board.

 

[jordanstarr]

You could always try to make your own adapter if you want to try it out for a test and see if it focuses properly and gives you a result that is desirable. I would just rig something up with a tough material for a bellows between the lens and the mount and tape it there so it's light tight, I'd then stabilize the lens to secure it from falling off, take a few shots in the house, develop and see if it's worth pursuing further. It would really only work for a camera that has a shutter built into the body (not the lens) and allows you to focus through the lens -pentax 6x7 or similar.

If it's something you want to pursue from your results, you can always get a busted lens in the mount you want, take off the mount of that and off a body-type of the lens you wanted to mount, take it to a machine shop and see if they can adapt the two. Not a cheap process, but if you have unique images that are hard to reproduce by others, you'd have an interesting niche.

 

[Sejanus.Aelianus]

Ummm... it will only work for close shots, unless you can make a cup style adapter that will sit into the rollfilm body. The back focus for 35mm is a lot less than for roll film formats. The bigger the format, the longer the back focus.

If you're serious about this, you might want to look at the mini press cameras, such as the 6x9 graflexes. They have bellows that close right back into the main body, so a 35mm format lens mounted on a spare lens board could be made to focus at infinity. You'll need a ground glass focussing back for the camera, to make this work, I'd think, so budget for that (they're not common and often expensive).

 

[rxmd]

Is there a camera that uses medium format film (120, 6x6) and uses 35mm format lenses? I'm thinking of creating pictures that have circular images. 🙂
Something like this, but with film - http://www.dpreview.com/news/2009/9/15/hartbleicam

Actually you should be able to adapt a Kiev 88 or Hasselblad A12 back to the Hartblei Cam, if you want such a thing.

Otherwise I think it's a do-it-yourself kind of project. Might be interesting though.

 

[pagpow]

Way back in prehistory, the photo mags ran stories featuring such adaptations. They used a 35mm lens of your fl choice, mounted in a shutter, with a 6x6 back attached with an appropriately thick spacer for a body. Sometimes, they even ran full frame fisheyes as the lenses as they made circular images when freed from the 24x36 mm frame. Don't think I have the issues still.
Giorgio

 

[t.s.k.]

Won't step-down rings and a tele hood work?