Re: Custom modifications - who does this? the answer

[Ellis Vener <evphoto@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I agree with Simon on this one, there are certainly enough ready made
solutions that you don't need to reinvent the wheel here. For the record
Marty Forscher's former outfit: Professional Camera Repair in New York
City did the modifications to Satterwhite's camera. Forscher, who has
since retired,  had a long and illustrious history of repairing and
rebuilding specialty cameras. Most photographers know him as the brains
behind the NPC Polaroid proback for 35mm cameras. PCR is still in
business last I checked.

Ellis Vener
Houston, Texas

"Kah Heng, Tan" wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> Merry Christmas everyone!
> 
> I am just curious to find out, could anyone tell me which company takes
> ready made cameras and custom modifies them to be panoramic cameras? That
> or which company makes custom mods, period?
> 
> I came across an old Al Satterwhite book that I have and saw a nice Nikon
> F2 custom job that Satterwhite owns. It is a 35mm job with a 1:3 side to
> length film ratio, has two interchangeable largeformat lenses mounted on
> cones (like the Linhof Technorama lenses) and has a nice optical finder.
> The prism and shutter assembly has been removed. On the whole, it looks
> like such a fantastically handy camera.
> 
> Anyone?
> 
> Thanks
> Tan