[MF3D.FORUM:687] Re: Cameras

[Richard Twichell <rmt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the welcome; I look forward to sharing experiences and
information with this group.

I use two Sputniks and a Heidescop; have been mounting in Spicer MF
mounts, and viewing with a crude but awesome homemade viewer made by Ray
Smullyan, secretary of the Delta SSA MF folio.  Have lately taken to
mounting pairs in Gepe glass mounts and projecting with a pair of
P-11s.  Looking for another pair for dissolving.

I wrote and Paul responded:

> > What I would really like is a
> > 6x7 advance for 220 film fitted to the Heidescop - 10 pairs with a
> > double wind for each shot...but am not clever enough to make one.
> 
> Does the Heidoscop roll film back use a red window?
> Surely there is no advance counter on that camera,
> right?.
> 
> Because 220 film does not have paper backing the
> film would be fogged by the light coming through
> the red window, and there would be no numbers to
> read to see how far you had avanced the film.

Correct, there is a red window and no counter on the rollback.  My
thought is to construct an alternate back (they remove easily - too
easily!) using perhaps graflex rollholder components, to enable use of
220 without counting revs of the windknob.  I'd rather use the 6x7 model
than the 6x6, to maintain the extra width for window setting.  A good
tradeoff in my view, settling for 10 pairs instead of 12.

Dick Twichell