[MF3D.FORUM:694] Re: Cameras

["don lopp" <dlopp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It is fairly simple to get 6 pairs on either the Heidoscope or Rolleidoscope
Don.
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From: "Richard Twichell" <rmt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Medium Format 3D Photography" <MF3D.Forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2000 4:00 PM
Subject: [MF3D.FORUM:687] Re: Cameras


> 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
>