For Sale FS: 6x12 panoramic camera conversion

Selling a custom 6x12 conversion using a 65mm Super Angulon in a revamped Zeiss folder body.

These cameras were just featured on The Photoblographer about a week ago. Here is a link if you want to check it out.
(https://www.thephoblographer.com/20...are-probably-a-panoramic-photographers-dream/)

With all of my custom camera projects, my goal is to make something that’s small and easy to use so they can be used alongside a modern digital camera kit.

These are built on a classic folding Zeiss Ikon camera body which shot a 6.5 x 11 image on either 116 or 616 rollfilm. After my conversion, the camera yields six 2 1/4 x 11 images on standard 120 film in a masked down film gate and using two sets of spool adapters. Viewing through the red window, you shoot frames 3, 5 1/2, 8, 10 1/2, 13, 15 1/2 film.

The bodies were stripped down to bare metal, deep cleaned and in the case of the black version, primed and painted black before the bodies was recovered with a modern custom cut leather kit.

The cameras have a permanently attached Arca Swiss plate that is mounted perpendicular to the body which keeps the camera from leaning over and putting any pressure on the lens and helical.

These use a much lower profile spring loaded accessory shoe which keeps the masked 21mm Voigtlander viewfinder lower making the entire camera lower profile than my previous conversions.

The chrome version of the camera uses a chrome Linhof Technika branded 65mm f/8 in a matching Linhof branded shutter. The blacked out version uses a black second generation (but still an earlier single coated) 65mm f/8 Super Angulon lens in a matching black Copal shutter. The lenses are quite clean and sharp and free of any scratches or mars whatsoever. The shutters are smooth at all speeds and solid down to a full second as well. I’ve added a 49mm to 52mm step up ring that gives the lens a bit of physical protection and brings the 49mm filter ring up to a more common (and affordable) 52mm filters.

The blacked out ‘street shooter’ ships in a tall Lowepro padded Adventura 170 case.

If you want to check out some of my other camera projects, here is a link to my Flickr:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dirkfletcher/albums

Thanks for looking and stay safe!
Dirk
dirkfletcher@gmail.com

This is way out of my budget but I gotta say this is really nice looking.

And then I looked at your flicker, amazing work!

Cholentpot said:

This is way out of my budget but I gotta say this is really nice looking.

And then I looked at your flicker, amazing work!

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Thanks so much for taking the time to say that!!
Stay safe, Dirk

dirkfletcher said:

Thanks so much for taking the time to say that!!
Stay safe, Dirk

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Keep doing what your doing. This is art.

Again, thanks so much for saying that. I’m enjoying building them, it’s so cool others enjoy them too!

I have one on the workbench with a cool looking finish that’s I’ll share when it’s done.

Dirk

(PS) this camera has been sold, but another one is on the workbench!

How much will you charge if I send you the Zeiss 520/15 camera?

lenspeeper said:

How much will you charge if I send you the Zeiss 520/15 camera?

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Addendum
In searching Ebay for a selection of Zeiss 520's, I note there are other wide 520's that carry other #'s after the slash (/) such as 520/2, 520 6x9, etc.
I know that in other Zeiss folders like the Super Ikonta's the main number remains the same while the number after the slash changes but the camera body appears to be the same.
Are there other 520's that will work if a decent 520/15 cannot be found?

lenspeeper said:

Addendum
In searching Ebay for a selection of Zeiss 520's, I note there are other wide 520's that carry other #'s after the slash (/) such as 520/2, 520 6x9, etc.
I know that in other Zeiss folders like the Super Ikonta's the main number remains the same while the number after the slash changes but the camera body appears to be the same.
Are there other 520's that will work if a decent 520/15 cannot be found?

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There might be some other cameras out there that could work but the 520/15 is the only camera with enough width to be a full pano cameras and have an attached (swinging) door. I have seen some smaller 6x9 conversions with a 47mm lens that seem pretty nice but I really want to end up with a pano camera. There are some Zeiss and Kodak cameras that are wide enough to match this one, but they have a large removable door that never seemed like a convenient solution. I like to shoot hand held as much as possible and the thought of having to remove (and hold) the camera back while loading film on shims and into the camera never really seemed like a decent way to work. To even muck up the operation even further, only the earlier first version of this camera (using 116 film) will work as the later 616 version does not have enough room for the 120 spool to fit in the take up side. I guess you could wind onto 616 spools but I really want these cameras to be a as functional and as an affordable option to the 6x12 Linhof Technorama that I have always lusted after (and still can't afford)!

I have made a couple cameras by literally cutting two 520's in half and bolting them together. While they end up functional, they are nowhere near as classy looking as the conversions that I'm building now.


I do have another camera body that I'm working now that I'll post once its ready.
Dirk

Your third image looks like you used the front nose of a Brooks Veriwide (later version).

You know what funny about that entire 6x17 camera...I’m such a nerd, the entire camera was built out of parts that I had laying around. I got the idea of joining bodies together from ‘The Longfellow’ and I already had the 2x3 speed parts. The only thing I had to buy was a cheap changing bag to use for the bag bellows. The front part you are referring to I wanna say was the removable portion of an old Agfa 120 (or maybe bigger...?) point and shoot camera!