Panoramic RF Cameras?

[Keith Tapscott.]

Which cameras are currently available in either 6x12 or 6x17 formats?

 

[sevo]

None. And as far as I can make out, there never have been any - given the extreme wide, the slow shooting speed and mostly infinity use (many earlier or homebuilt panoramics were fixed focus), a rangefinder would be rather lost on a panoramic. All panoramics I have ever used were scale focus - some of the recent Chinese ones can also be fit with a ground glass...

 

[majid]

The only panoramic RFs are the Fuji TX-1 and TX-2 (Hasselblad XPan and Xpan II).

 

[Texsport]

Noblex, Widelux, and a few others would be surprised to hear this.🙂

Texsport

 

[Rob-F]

Noblex, Widelux, and a few others would be surprised to hear this.🙂

Texsport

Well, I don't think Noblex or Widelux have a rangefinder, do they? I know they have an optical viewfinder, but that doesn't make them rangefinder cameras. In fact, they have fixed focus lenses. No need for a rangefinder; nothing to focus. The XPan and the Fuji TX-1 have a rangefinder patch in the viewfinder window.

 

[Keith Tapscott.]

Thanks for the replies. I thought that the Fuji 6x17 cameras had a range-finder. I must have mistakenly thought they were like the GS/GSW670 and 690 series.

 

[kuzano]

My Fuji camera is rangefinder and does Pano 6X17

My Fuji camera is rangefinder and does Pano 6X17

I use a Fuji GL690 (last interchangeable lens 6X9 rangefinder) to shoot 2 images. Then I stitch them together for a 6X17 Pano...

If I do 3 images, I can stitch for 6X24. Images are sharply focused and I meter manually with a Gossen digital light meter for good exposure.

The good news is that it's a $500 camera.