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"Waves" Pacifica, CA

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"Break Wall" Pacifica, CA

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6x17 view camera
 
tsiklonaut said:
Amazing setup! Great lens as well. Where did you get the 35mm roll adapters, are those some universal adapters?
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Just some generic ones from eBay (China).

They didn't work in my Pentax 67. In fact, I thought they were going to work and I was trying to get them to wind and then I stripped a gear or something in the film advance so I have a trashed 67 now. Lesson learned...but I think it's repairable. Need to send it off.

I also have a 38mm XL lens that would be cool and even wider, but it's in a Linhof recessed board and I didn't want to take it off.
 
From June 2014 near Mono Lake east of the California Sierras, Pentax dSLR with 21mm lens. A "pseudo-pano" as the similarity is by chance, with the camera pointed east for one and west for the other. 🙂
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Panorama 1 by *monz*, on Flickr

Taken with a modified Fujica G960BL:


Goliath's Backside by *monz*, on Flickr

This is the backside of "Goliath," my ancient Fujica G960 BL medium format rangefinder camera. It's not a pretty sight. Normally, Goliath produces massive 9x6cm negatives using medium-format film. As an experiment, I decided to adapt this behemoth so that it produced panoramic pictures using standard 35mm film. The first problem was securing a 35mm film cassette into a chamber designed for medium format film. After a lot of messing around, I found that placing two polystyrene pellets (as used in packing delicate items for the post) in the film chamber was the best way of securing the 35mm cassette. The film is then pulled across to the take-up spool on the right and attached to it with masking tape. With the back closed, two strokes of the wind-on lever are required to move the film to the next frame. The standard lens with this camera is the 100mm / f3.5 Fujinon although the viewfinder has lines for 100mm and 150mm lenses. Framing panoramic shots with this set-up is a bit of an inexact science but great fun. From my first roll of 36 exposure b+w film, I was able to get 13 panoramas, each measuring 24mm by nearly 90mm! As an added bonus, the picture spills on to the borders of the frames, around the sproket holes.... looks very cool (but unfortunately my current scanner can't scan the borders so I can't share the coolness).

Once you get to the end of the film, you can't rewind it (this is a medium format camera which is designed to use rollfilm, remember). I take the film out of the camera in a dark bag and feed it directly onto the developing reel and then place the reel in a Jobo tank ready for developing.
 
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