Newbie: Cheapest setup for a 6x17 camera?

[Kevin Roach]

A lot of people are converting Kodak 3A cameras into 6x14 panorama cameras. or you could buy a couple of foldex folding cameras and cut/glue them to make a 6x17 back. fit it on a plate camera or 4x5 graphic. That's about as cheap as you can get. 50-100 dollars for a working panorama camera.

 

[Steve Smith]

The old Polaroid rollfilm cameras can be converted too. I did a 160 as shown in the attached pictures. The conversion is fairly easy.

I currently have a 110A but I can't decide if I want to convert it to 120 or 5x4 yet.

These conversions are not quite as wide as the Kodak 3A conversions as the final image size is around 6 x 10.5cm


steve.

 

[jamie young]

I would be curious to hear more about the kodak 3A conversions. Someone showing it on the web?

 

[Mark Fisher]

Jamie,

I'll try to go out and shoot with mine this weekend and share the results...if I don't freeze.....it has film in it and I did not document the design yet....go Pack!

 

[jamie young]

I actually thought you were talking about adapting a panoram 3A for 120 film, not a regular 3A. Though I should have read more carefully, I am curious what you come up with. Sounds interesting

 

[dr5chrome]

www.6x14.com

I would be curious to hear more about the kodak 3A conversions. Someone showing it on the web?

 

[HeinrichVoelkel]

www.6x14.com

the webpage doesn't work beyond the intro page. tried different browsers...
:confused:

 

[infest]

the webpage doesn't work beyond the intro page. tried different browsers...
:confused:

I heard that the lenses are the week point of these cameras, with exception of the latest models. Maybe one could put there a modern equivalent of the original F length, the camera is adjustable in the focus distance.

 

[Someonenameddavid]

3 different ways to get where you want to go are illustrated in the URLs below.

Kodak Panoram - about $400, shoots on 120 film.
35 mm Widelux - I'm guessing about $750.
Rollei panoramic mount - maybe $100, plus computer.

Results from the above cameras, shown on sites below.

Route 66, 35mm Widelux and 120-film Kodak Panoram:
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Trip home to Ohio from Santa Monica, via UT / CO, Widelux only:
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And here's an example of a Rollei pano head attached to a Rolleiflex, then the images Photomerged:
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Your head spinning yet?

Doug Grosjean

Our friends at Surplus Shed have a sweet Metrogon 160mm
lens 90 degree coverage with 9x9 inch coverage which would translate to 6cm x 30cm on 120 film. I'm tinkering with adapting a speed graphic, rear shutter, waterhouse stops in the lens and blackening out the white structures in the lens (because it was a projection lens) Total about $150-$200 if you make film holders out of old 4x5 cut film, butted end to end... hand tool work.

David