bogeschdorf in 'moonlight'

bogeschdorf/bagaciu/szaszbogacs, sunset next to the church. Comments

welcome.

Hi Csab,

I came across a post of yours where you were thinking about creating a panorama camera from a 6x9 folder. By coincidence, I'm thinking about doing the same with my Mamiya Press camera. Did you go ahead with your project and was it a success? I'd be interested to hear how you got on and what difficulties you had to overcome. Loved looking at your gallery, by the way.

Regards,

Bruce Robbins

Hi Bruce

Thanks.

Panoramic folder: I made a mask from black paper to cover half of the 6x6 window in an agfa folder. The upper half, let's say. I ran a roll of 120-film through it, wound it back, turned the mask upside down and started to shoot with the same film again. I also used a soft tip pen to mark the centre of the viewfinder.

Of course it's a low-end approach; but it would have been funny to see the result.

However, just before i finished the roll (second time), some broke into the house and stole the camera+film in it, together with some other stuff.

I did not try the thing since then. But i did not give it up yet.

There;s a guy on rangefinderforum who once posted some results of a 35mm-film ran through a folder as a poor man's xpan :) the results were quite funny, good looking. But it's difficult with the winding.

Good luck.