Re: mamiya good starting point.

[Simon Nathan <simonwide@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

andrew- put your snailmail address
in block form so that i can lift it onto envelope and you'll receive from
me large john west drawing plus two part 1970 popular photography columns
on doing similar in 1964. good luck. my camera started from mamiya standard
and was sectioned. magazines spliced together to make 6x18cm.
simon nathan

Andrew Fildes wrote:

> I'm a Mamiya Press user and lucky enough to ownn
> the 50 and 75 lenses. I
> had been thinking about how I could use the large circle of the 75,
> which
> was designed to cover a full Polaroid frame plus more, by hacking a
> Press
> body. It then occurred to me that simply by cutting a darkslide as
> a mask
> for a 6x9 back, I could expose two 24 x 85 strips on a 6x9 frame, upper
> and
> lower and then hand cut them for scanning. As the camera has no interlocks,
> double exposure is usually a problem rather than an opportunity.
> Has anyone tried this? It seems a cheap way to me to achieve 35mm panoramas
> with a better result than most dedicated 35mm panoramic cameras which
> seem
> to have frame widths in the high 50's.
> Andrew
> PS - I'm in Melbourne - anyone know where I can get 120 or 35mm pans
> scanned at a reasonable price locally or, at least, in Oz?