Panorama insert for film holders

I been wanting to shoot panoramas for a while now but it isn't cheapest thing to get in to so I decided to go for a diy solution.
I thought about making custom film holder but landed on tying to make som inserts for a regular film holder instead.
purchased some 13x18 holders to get 6x18 negatives but it turned out the holder where, at least i think for half-plate film so it will give 6x15,5.
Will try with 5x7 and 13x18 when I get some

The inserts are printed with a 3d printer
It is printed in two halves and glued together, the part that slides in to the holders "film groove" is glued on









Some paper for testing





It might not work all that great with roll film, I plan on using cut down X-ray film.

That's nice. Not to be a complete idiot or anything, but why don't you just mark the format you want on the GG and crop in printing? You're going to have to mark the GG anyway. Masking the film loses cropping opportunities and the chance to correct poor framing.

I suspect the idea is to conserve film.

That is correct
I will get four panorama strips out of one sheet of x-ray film.
Plus I dont like the idea of cropping out a panorama out of a larger negative.

I had a 1941 Kodak Commercial View 8x10 view camera. The back had two spring loaded inserts infront of the ground glass that blocked half the frame in each the portrait and landscape orientations. Either could be used seperately or both together. The resulting possibilites were 4 4x5 images per sheet of 8x10 film, 2 5x8 images or 2 4x10 images per sheet of 8x10 film.
The inserts were flat black.

i had an old lf camera that had darkslides with cutouts to do several pix on one sheet of film. you pull the regular darkslide out and insert these cut out darkslides in order for each shot. the gg was makrked with all the masks so composing for them was easy.

OeT said:

That is correct
I will get four panorama strips out of one sheet of x-ray film.
Plus I dont like the idea of cropping out a panorama out of a larger negative.

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Thanks for the explanation. I still think y'r project is a prime example of "I can do it so I will so there."

Don't take this as criticism. It isn't the way I'd solve the problem making prints with high aspect ratios but since you're happy with it I'm happy for you.