Hi Pentaxians By pure chance found this video of someone shooting wide format Xpan on his Pentax 67 using custom masks and 35mm film. As Spock would say: fascinating! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mlxHMxrFDQ Cheers Cotty

I didn't watch the video but I used to do this with a Mamiya RB67. I made a mask from black card, and a couple of little spacers to hold the film canister in the right place. It worked pretty well. I had to open the back and rewind the film manually in a dark-bag. My film scanner is able to scan the whole strip at full resolution. The beauty of the RB67 was the interchangeable backs so I could easily switch between 6x7 vs panorama. I thought about trying it with the Pentax 6x7 but decided it was easier to just put a bit of mylar in the finder with some guide-lines drawn on, and crop it later. Some examples: http://gallery.multi.net.nz/photo/2/ http://gallery.multi.net.nz/photo/3/ http://gallery.multi.net.nz/photo/13/ Cheers, Dave > On Aug 23, 2025, at 8:52 AM, Steve Cottrell <cotty@seeingeye.tv> wrote: > > Hi Pentaxians > > By pure chance found this video of someone shooting wide format Xpan on his Pentax 67 using custom masks and 35mm film. As Spock would say: fascinating! > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mlxHMxrFDQ > > Cheers > > Cotty > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-leave@pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

I quite like that last one, moonrise > On Aug 22, 2025, at 11:31 PM, David Mann <dmann.nz@gmail.com> wrote: > > I didn't watch the video but I used to do this with a Mamiya RB67. I made a mask from black card, and a couple of little spacers to hold the film canister in the right place. It worked pretty well. I had to open the back and rewind the film manually in a dark-bag. My film scanner is able to scan the whole strip at full resolution. > > The beauty of the RB67 was the interchangeable backs so I could easily switch between 6x7 vs panorama. > > I thought about trying it with the Pentax 6x7 but decided it was easier to just put a bit of mylar in the finder with some guide-lines drawn on, and crop it later. > > Some examples: > http://gallery.multi.net.nz/photo/2/ > http://gallery.multi.net.nz/photo/3/ > http://gallery.multi.net.nz/photo/13/ > > Cheers, > Dave > >> On Aug 23, 2025, at 8:52 AM, Steve Cottrell <cotty@seeingeye.tv> wrote: >> >> Hi Pentaxians >> >> By pure chance found this video of someone shooting wide format Xpan on his Pentax 67 using custom masks and 35mm film. As Spock would say: fascinating! >> >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mlxHMxrFDQ >> >> Cheers >> >> Cotty >> -- >> %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-leave@pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-leave@pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. > __ Larry Colen from Lothlorien lrc@red4est.com