Panoramic Film Developing?

Hi! For my class project we have to shoot holgas and one of the ones that's been lenes to me is the wide pinhole. We are sending out film to be developed and I was wondering if this type of camera requires me to check the panoramic option when I send it off and pay the extra $10.

Bassicly I gusse my question is a)what exactly counts as a panoramic when we are talking film and b)from a processing standpoint what is done different then with non panos? Thanks!

With standard 120 film(or 35mm for that matter), your safest option might be "develop only-do not cut" and then scan them yourself.

I doubt you'd find panoramic printing for 120 outside of high end specialty labs that cater to folks shooting MF panorama cameras.

My GUESS would be that your lab's "panorama" option is for APS film, which can be electronically "tagged" to crop the top and bottom off the frame and make a panorama format image(even disposable APS cameras offered this as an option-to show how cheesy it was they had a plastic mask that slid over the viewfinder). I have a couple of snapshot-type APS panoramas kicking around here, and they are roughly 4x9" or 4x10". They also look terrible since they're throwing away part of an already small negative and enlarging it a large amount. On the rare occasion I shoot APS these days(I use a Nikon SLR for it that has all the gimmicky bells and whistles the format offered) I only shoot it in "standard" format since doing otherwise is just wasting film.

There are disposable panoramic cameras that create a 12mm x 36mm image on 35mm film with a 24mm lens.

It might be that you can shoot with a 24mm lens on any 35mm camera, and select that option.

If you check the panoramic box, they will make 4x12 prints, instead of the usual 4x6. That is what you pay extra for.

If you do develop only, and return as uncut strip, they shouldn't care about the image size. Then you can scan them yourself.