Wide angle converters on old panoramic cameras?

[steve_chan5]

I picked up an old Kodak Special Six-16 camera as a panoramic

project (do the conversion to 120 film and monkey around with it a

bit). I was wondering if anyone has tried putting any of the .6x or

.7x converters on the front of the lens.

 

I'm curious to see if there is a significant loss of coverage,

and/or heavy distortion. Many of these converters seems to be for

digicams, video recorders, or some of them are for 35mm cameras, so

they wouldn't need so much coverage.

 

On the other hand, these old lens aren't that fast anyway, and they

are generally normal lenses when it comes to angle of view. Does this

cancel out any of the problems with the afocal converters?

[silent1]

A simple first check would be to put ground glass at the film plane (clear acrylic with frosted tape on the side toward the lens works well) and examine the image with a loup -- distortions and edge/corner problems should be easy to see, as long as you have a T setting or can hold the shutter open on B.

[mfophotos]

I put a 35mm wide angle converter (the kind that uses a series

VII adapter, made for something like a Yashica) on my Holga --

interesting -- gave me a wide-angle effect with vignetting at the

corners in the 6 x 4.4 mode

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