Anyone tried doing panoramic half frames?

What if you taped some black plastic to cover the top half of your 35mm image gate, took a roll with it, then ran that same roll again but with the bottom half taped?

Would you just end up scratching the heck out of your film? Or could you get 72 3:1 aspect ratio images?

Rather than possibly causing scratches or other problems, take the photographs in 35mm format and print only in the half height format.

Why not just buy a 35mm SLR or point and shoot with panorama mode, I have a Minolta 600si with pan mode, there many 35mm point and shoot with built in pan mode, that are true panorama, just cropped 35mm.

The problem would be making a mask that didn't effect the film plane or cause light leaks in such a small window.
a thin piece of tape wouldn't be rigid enough and something thicker would be too thick.
I think you would have to make something special to fit in the 35mm frame.

There's nothing wrong with trying it, but you might face some obstacles. As mentioned, there might be some light leak along the central edge, but I don't think that would be too bad. You'd also have to mask your full-frame 35mm negative carrier, but that's do-able.

As mentioned there are full-frame 35mm cameras that have a panorama mode, but all the ones I've seen crop the top and bottom, so you don't save any film.

There is a camera called the Image Fusion Split-Cam -- maybe available under other brand names. Using 35mm film, it has TWO masks over the lens (and the viewfinder). It allows you to expose the top half of 35mm film (12x36) and then the bottom half -- by cocking the shutter without the advancing the film (and switching the lens & viewfinder masks). The limitation is that it is a fixed-focus, fixed-aperture, fixed-shutter speed camera, so it's BRIGHT settings only -- but it allows you to take multiple exposure panoramas!!!

There's also the Lomo Super Sampler with FOUR lenses that takes 8x24mm images ACROSS 35mm film.

You can read all about them, and many other 35mm cameras with CRAZY film formats -- how about a 35mm camera with NINE lenses (7.5x11mm) -- at:

https://www.subclub.org/shop/35mmmisc.htm

I just got a $40 Minolta Vista also sold as the P's and a Riva I think that a dedicated panoramic half frame sort of with a panoramic viewfinder too. Point and shoot but I'm excited to try it out.

Those 35mm full-frame panorama cameras used various approaches to get panoramas. The Konica Wai Wai, for example, simply used a fixed-aperture 17mm lens -- no kidding -- while others had a 28mm lens combined with a cropped format. So check the specs first -- which are often hard to find.