Respoolling 35mm film onto 120 backing?

[robert_landrigan]

In looking for a cheap panoramic insert for my equally cheap

Kiev 60, I've been experimenting with "reloading" 120 backings

with 35mm film. My results, although a bit different with each

roll(sometimes the film shifts a bit on the backing, so not all the

images end up perfectly level) have been pretty cool, all the

same. Was wondering if anyone else out there has tried this,

and what results you've seen. Personally, I like the fact that the

film is exposed all the way out, so you get the sprocket holes as

part of the image.

[bill_moore]

Here is article on this very subject: <a href="http://www.rit.edu/~andpph/text-lubitel.html">UNDERCOVER

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[frank_ward1]

Robert, I've been shooting full film 35mm in my Mamiya 7 by using the 35mm adaptor, but not putting the mask in. Check out a photo on the link below.

 

http://www.amherst.edu/~fmward/menu.html

[erin_argast2]

'Cheap' actually means ' low quality'. I think what you mean is '

inexpensive'. A Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost would not be 'cheap', even

if you paid a dollar for a raffle ticket and won the car in the

raffle...which would be very inexpensive. A Ford Pinto would always

be 'cheap'-low quality-even if you paid $40,000,000.00 for it.

Inexpensive need not be complicated, or low quality. You want low

cost panoramic views? Forget 35mm, and forget Kiev...which is usually

quite 'cheap'. Get a quality made medium format camera-a Yashica Mat

124, or Mamiya C-3, or such-used, and take good pictures with it,and

then crop the finished print to panoramic format. The 6x6cm negatives

will be as wide as, or wider than, most panoramic 35mm negs...which

are usually 1.5X the width of a regular 35mm negative. The 35mm

negative measures 24x36mm. About 6mm of that is cropped off during

printing, so the effective width of a 35mm negative is 30mm. The

actual width of 35mm negatives, 36mm width X 1.5 = 54mm. The

effective width of 35mm, 30mm X 1.5 = 45mm. The effective width of a

6x6cm negative is 56mm. The square format negative already gives you

a bit more than a panoramic 35mm camera would give. It just doesn't

seem panoramic, because of the extra height, as well as the extra

width. When you take a 6x6 shot, and print it, trim some of the

height, and Voila!...a panoramic which will beat anything even a

Hasselblad 35mm Panoramic camera will produce. Your big mistake was

playing Russian Roulette, by using a Kiev. Some Kiev gear is quite

good, and some is quite lousy. You never know whether you'll get a

peach, or a lemon, when buying Kiev...which is why I don't. If you

want high quality panoramics, do as I have suggested. If you just

want to play around with different ways of doing things, continue as

you have done...and get more disappointing images than satisfactory

ones. I've never tried what you have, because it would seem a waste

of my time, but if you