I was paging through a book I picked up at a yard sale (J. Meehan, "Panoramic Photography", Revised edition. On page 136 is a picture of a 35mm film adaptor for making panormaic-like prints in a Pentax 6x7 (very similar in design to the 35mm insert in the Mamiya 7, I suspect). The author inidcates it is made by "Robert Koch". Has anyone ever used this thing?

-- Carl Tower (cjtowerman@yahoo.com), May 16, 2002

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I am also curious to know if such an adapter is available. I was contemplating posting a question about the existence of such an adapter/mask.

Jim

-- Jim Korczak (korczaks@ptdprolog.net), May 16, 2002.

I never heard of any 35mm, but being interested in panoramic I started experimenting using 35mm film. Here is what I do. First I cut a piece of 35mm of equal length to a 220 film. Then, using the two paper parts of a used 220 roll, I tape it to each ends the same way the 220 film was. I set my Pentax back to 220, shoot and get 21 «24 x70mm» negatives! (The same is possible with a 120 film length tape on a used 120 rool with the back set to 120.) Maybe that the film flatness is'nt perfect, but shooting at f5.6 and smaller probably clears the problem.

-- Jean Grothé (jean.grothe@videotron.ca), May 21, 2002.

Why not just shoot standard size frames and either crop them when you do the printing or have the lab crop the prints they do to your proofing specifications. You could simply draw lines where you want the image cropped to on a clear, glycene sleeve, etc.

-- George Rhodes (betsy@colormewell.com), May 22, 2002.

George, I fully agree with you. But, for me, the essential advantage of using 35mm is their availlability and diversity of emulsion. For example I use a lot Kodak HIE (infrared) and it is not available in 35mm. Jean

-- Jean Grothé (jean.grothe@videotron.ca), May 24, 2002.