Re: Horizon 202

[Willem-Jan Markerink <w.j.markerink@xxxxx>]

On 15 Jan 99 at 21:54, WillMall@xxxxxxx wrote:

> Hi -
> 
> I just obtained a Horizon 202.  What a thoroughly cool camera.  Unfortunately,
> I didn't receive an instruction manual.  I was wondering if anyone on this
> list could answer a few questions:

I have a scan of the English manual available....about 2MB total file 
size (be sure your mailbox can handle that!).
 
> - What is the depth of field for the various apertures (researching deja news
> gave me info that F/8.0 gives 2 meters ~ infinity and that F/16 gives 1 meter
> to infinity - are these even close?)?  Anybody care to share the entire depth
> of field information?

All in the manual....too lazy to type....;-))
 
> - Does image quality suffer at F/16?
 
> - How in the hell do you get a filter onto the lens (my fingers are adequate
> for playing piano but don't seem to be nimble enough to apply the filters for
> this camera)?  If I was to be lucky enough to get the filter on is there a tip
> for getting it off?  Any tips?

Find a loop from a strap or a zipper (bag, jacket), and hook it 
around one of the tails....officially you should use a second filter, 
and hooking them into one another, but that procedure has a high risk 
of the filter banging into eachother, as it pops out.
 
> - I was shooting with the Horizon this afternoon using a locking cable
> release.  I didn't notice that the cable release was locked and began winding.
> It may be interesting to users that the camera can't be wound with the shutter
> release still "plunged" this way.  I unlocked the release and it wound on and
> cocked the shutter in the normal way.  I first thought I had found a way to do
> a multiple exposure but no dice without the cocked shutter. 

For double exposures you could press the rewind-button on the bottom 
continuously....never tried that though, only the sprocket doesn't 
pull in that case, but the take-up reel still does, so you might get 
a small image shift.
 
> - Can anyone tell me the best way to scan negatives/slides from a Horizon?  I
> know it is probably fairly easy to scan both "halves" with a filmstrip scanner
> and "stich", but since no standard slides will work with these negatives,
> would you be better off using a high end flatbed (such as an Agfa Duoscan or
> Arcus II)?  How do some of you users get quality scanning of Horizon
> negatives?  Any other tips?

The HP PhotoSmart can scan 35mm panorama frames with additional 
software....see a link on my homepage:

http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/mainpage.htm

Also check the several chapters on 202 tips&tricks....

 

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Bye,

Willem-Jan Markerink


      The desire to understand 
is sometimes far less intelligent than
     the inability to understand


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