This week, I picked up a Mamiya 7 135 panoramic adapter kit on eBay. This kit fits my Mamiya 7ii medium format camera and allows me to shoot with 35mm film in a panoramic format. The size of each image on film is 24mm x 65mm and you are supposed to get 16 images on a roll of 36.
I've been looking at these panoramic adapters for a while and although not that common, they do appear on the second hand market from time to time. I'll mostly be using it with my bulk rolled Ilford HP5+ which I tend to have available most of the time for when I need some black and white film.
The 135 Panoramic Adapter Kit itself is very well built and consists of four individual parts - the panoramic mask, cassette holder which holds the roll of film, the take-up spool and the rewind crank unit. Unlike shooting conventional 120 film (which has a backing paper) and ends up on the take-up spool and is removed from the right hand side of the camera, the 35mm has to be rewound back into the original film cassette. That's why there's a rewind crank that has to be fitted. It's a very easy process though and everything runs quite smoothly once the parts are in place.
Shooting in such a wide, panoramic format really makes you think about what's important in the frame and having a good balance of elements left and right for a good composition.
The roll I shot here was rated at 400 ISO and I mainly used aperture priority for my exposures. I developed the roll in Ilford ID11 (1+1) and the images were DSLR 'scanned' backlit on a light box with my Panasonic G9 and a Sigma 105mm macro lens. They were shot as RAW images and I used the Negative Lab Pro software plugin for Lightroom to do the black and white conversions. This has now become my preferred method for scanning 35mm film.
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Gear used on this vlog:
Mamiya 7 II camera
Mamiya 80mm f4 lens
Mamiya 7 135 Panoramic Adapter Kit
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