Re: Voyageur

[Paul Weil <pdweil1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:10 PM 7/5/00 -0700, you wrote:
>I'd be interested in hearing from people on the list who have used Voyageur
>cameras. The Voyageur uses 120 format film but is built to take only one
>focal length lens. It strikes me as possibly a good compromise between
>expense (the Voyageur is some $1300 by the time it gets to the United
>States) and features. Other restrictions I know of so far are that it can
>only accommodate a 15 degree tilt and is not made for hand-holding (I don't
>know how flexible most other rotational cameras are; I do know that the 35mm
>Lookaround will do verticals). As someone who has no experience with pan
>photography, I'm just not interested in putting $5,000 to $10,000 into a
>first panoramic camera.
>
>Anyway, I was very impressed by the artistry of the shots on the Voyageur
>Web site. But I'm interested in hearing from list members who've tried the
>camera.
>
>Thanks,
>Katherine
>
>
>
 I am using a scantech camera although not the voyageur and once I figured
out that the tripod head I was using it on was no good the camera has
worked fine, although I haven't used it enough to check for breakdowns. It
definitely cannot be handheld, I did tilt the camera to take pictures down
a flight of stairs and had no problems with that. I haven't tried to shoot
vertically yet, but hope to have that chance sometime within the next week.
The big problem is going to be how to scan in an 8 inch negative on a
scanner that will do 5 inch negatives.

Paul D. Weil
pdweil1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx