Tribute to the God Father

This reminds me of a pseudo-panoramic trick I used with an Agfa Isolette folder several years ago.  I'd load up some 35mm film (in the darkroom) and tape over the red window to prevent fogging.  The film would be exposed across the sprocket holes too since the camera was intended for 120 6x6cm format.  I had to guesstimate how much to advance the film to prevent overlapping frames.  Nifty results like your photo, but a pain in the neck so I didn't do it often.

Lex, sounds pretty creative. Always fun experimenting. Do you still have any of those shots. If you have a link, I'd like to see it.

I could have sworn there was a sample of those pseudo-panoramics in my photo.net folder, but I can't find it now.  I know I have a print - saw it in a storage box recently.  I'll try to dig it out and scan it.  

The effect is a little disorienting at first because the film is exposed across the sprocket holes out to the film edges, and the manufacturer's edge markings are also visibly superimposed.  So it doesn't quite look like a proper panoramic done in a camera designed to shoot panoramics (which don't expose across the sprocket holes) or a digitally enhanced border around another photo.  It's fun to ask viewers if they can figure out how it was done.

I think getting the 35mm to fit in the 120mm Agfa Isolette would have been a challenge. I never used an AGFA Folder, but I have looked at them online. I assume they weren't designed to just take a roll of 35mm film, but you figured out a way.

Dug through one of my boxes of prints and found a couple of samples.  These are just contact sheets or small work prints, but demonstrate the odd appearance of using 35mm film in a camera designed for 120 film without using masks.  The final results are actually pretty good - surprisingly so for a kludge technique.

Here are the links.  I'll try to attach a sample as well.  The basic technique is described on the linked pages:

http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=16604159

http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=16604160

Lex, that is cool and outside the box. I have never seen that done before. Panoramic for sure. I was thinking with the AGFA, they might have been even wider, did you crop? Thanks for showing me these.

Yup, it's an interesting look and fun riddle to stump photographers if they haven't seen this before.

This is straight from the camera and negative, no cropping.  The exposed frames measure 5.7cm on the long edge (not quite the nominal 6cm) and 3.5cm on the short edge, including across the sprocket holes.

Surprisingly, there was no flare despite not masking the 6x6 window.  Probably due to the anti-halation coatings on contemporary films.  Some films, especially IR, would probably show halation flare if used this way.