Panoramic Mount Project

[Stephen Puckett <spuckett@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I had gotten some of Joel's panoramic mounts and, of course,
drooled over the example he put in Folio II.  I decided to
try my hand at creating something for the mount.  Also, it
gives me something I can do easily(?) indoors here at my 
office - I am on the 17th floor of Downtown Portland and
look at Mt. Hood, the Willamette river, etc.  It's very 
pretty but it's been drizzly most every day for a l-o-n-g 
while  8-(

None of my cameras have wideangle lenses (with the sole
exception of that poor wideangle attachment for the Yashicamat)
so I brought a 6x9 camera with a normal lens and will then mask
down with the 'panoramic' mount.  This will give me lots of
'wiggle' room.

I shot a roll last week and 1 today.  I finally got a couple
of acceptable pairs.  I found that taking through the office
windows gave me new challenges: dirt, composition (can't change
this much), reflections.  The reflections were the worst - 
mostly because I did not notice it at first.  I learned to 
find a 'cleaner' spot on the window and hold my left hand on the
window while cradling the camera with the lens right up to the
glass to minimize the effects of the dirt and reflections.
A 10 foot stereobase looks pretty good.  I used up to 30' but
that seems too much for me. 

My next office project is to twin-up my new Lubitels to take 
with me while walking around at Lunch...assuming, of course, that
the drizzle stops.  I had 1 Lubitel but picked up the 2nd at a 
3/20 camera swap meet for $20.  It looks unused but no one was 
paying attention to it (*we* know the true worth!).  I've 
been using twinned bellows cameras but think that the TLR's will
be much handier while walking around.