1/2 slide

["M. Denis Hill" <denis@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I use a Bender half slide in a 4x5 view camera for shots requiring lenses I
don't have in my "real" panoramic cameras. There are just two caveats:
modify your slide leaving enough material to fill the light trap of the film
holder, and carefully insert the slide straight!

M. Denis Hill
Area 360 Communications
http://www.area360.com
360.678.8351

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Fildes [mailto:afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, April 10, 2000 4:22 PM
> To: panorama-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:
>
>
> 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?
>
>