P6x7 panorama kit

[splash_fr]

There are several chinese panoramic kits in ther german bay at the moment. They consist of several metal tubes that let you insert 135 film in the 120 roll film holders together with film masks to be inserted behind the shutter. They cost about 30ish Merkels (or Obamas? can't remember).
Has anybody used these? Are they any good or do they damage the camera?

I would love to burn some ppf50 with the 55mm lens...

Rgds,
Gerd.

 

[Dan Fromm]

There are several chinese panoramic kits in ther german bay at the moment. They consist of several metal tubes that let you insert 135 film in the 120 roll film holders together with film masks to be inserted behind the shutter. They cost about 30ish Merkels (or Obamas? can't remember).
Has anybody used these? Are they any good or do they damage the camera?

I would love to burn some ppf50 with the 55mm lens...

Rgds,
Gerd.

Not to be a complete idiot or anything, but why don't you just shoot 6x7 on 120 film and then crop as suits you?

 

[splash_fr]

I like the sprocket holes in my prints!
(And I have 19574562850784 km of ppf in the fridge...)

 

[Poisson Du Jour]

I have seen these panorama converters on eBay too, but frankly I would not risk the fragile shutter of the 67 with these fiddly pieces. It really is sacrificing the superb image quality of the 67 to slap a roll of 35mm film into it.

 

[jwatts]

I've seen a few guys on pentaxforums and flickr posting 35mm panos, never read of any camera damage issues. I don't really see how damage could be done unless your very careless in loading.

 

[SMBooth]

They should work fine. But if you like the sprocket holes you will need to file the mask out to suit. Trouble then is there is no film support to allow the pressure plate to flatten the film.

 

[Dr Croubie]

Trouble then is there is no film support to allow the pressure plate to flatten the film.

While I can't comment on the quality of said adapters, I can provide an example of this.
Pentacon Six, 50mm Flektogon, a roll of crappy 200 135 film run backwards (hence the Redscale). Nothing holding the cartridge in but a bit of cardboard, wound onto a 120 takeup reel and unloaded/rewound in the dark.



No supports at all. Have a look on the edges, perfectly sharp columns, but what's happened is that in the middle the film has bowed inwards and it's totally unsharp (I hope that's visible on the shrunk one I'm uploading).
This neg does have sprocket holes but it's a really old scan in a crappy 35mm holder, haven't wetscanned it nor printed yet.

So if you want sprocket holes, yes you can file out the holder, but you'll have to live with stuff like this happening (this is the worst on the roll, some weren't bad, maybe narrower f/ helped the others).
Keep the holder intact and it should be sharp the whole way at any aperture though.

 

[TheToadMen]

I have the original set for the Pentax 67 and it works fine. Only used it once, though.

 

[splash_fr]

I think I'll give it a try. Thanks for the input!

Rgds,
Gerd.

 

[johnha]

I wouldn't risk it.