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Thanks for the lenshood mounting suggestions. I have thought of something similar but I figure that the modern twist and lock lenshood mechanism for SLR lenses is more practical as the alignment (am thinking of XPAN type of square lenshood) is guaranteed which is crucial to prevent vignetting.

I figure that at 1:4 pano ratio, my option of composition is more limited. But I look at this as a pros rather than cons as it forces me to work harder on composition. Also this project camera is all about low cost entry into the world of pano film photography, hence I avoided the complexity of...

Since I mostly shoot landscape with this camera, infinity focus is fine, especially the shooting aperture is normally f/16 or smaller. Example of nearer subjects would be the Red Temple Door picture. I have calibrated the focusing helicoid at 6m, 3m and 1.5m for such instances.

At its current state, it's a decent light tight box with a lens in front and film at the back to enable me to capture some pictures that I thought would look good in a longish strip of film. I always wanted to somehow mount the bubble level and the viewfinder more properly instead of the...

The lens is aligned for infinity focus during construction phase using translucent scotch tape as ground glass. Then during picture taking, it's all guesstimates. But lucky for me, most of the time I am shooting at infinity and hope for the best.

Finally managed to snap some pictures showing the inside of the camera. YPAN backend A pair of GSN pressure plates

Some interpretations of YPAN in local context Temple roof, plastic flower and blue sky White window, red lantern and blue sky Red temple door

Ironically, the bubble level is about the only item not sourced locally... haha. It was a last minute purchase at a hardware store in Christchurch and the excess plastic bits of the original contractor bubble level will "sawn" off using the cutlery knife taken from the campervan kitchen. I...

I did disable the single frame winding lock of the GSN so that I can wind 3 frames continuously to get the 100mm width. No recalibration is needed on the frame counter/winding mechanism though because I am winding 3 whole 35mm frames per shot. The frame counter goes from 1->4->7->10 and so on.......

Actually the slides are scanned using a normal Epson V500 flatbed scanner with the original, rather flimsy film strip holder. But I suppose it does a pretty decent job.

A few pictures taken with YPAN in New Zealand. Film was some kind of Fuji Velvia. Glendhu Bay, Lake Wanaka. Another view at the same location Yet another view of the same location

The Schneider Angulon, being a typical LF lens doesn't come with any focusing mechanism. The focusing role is handled by the LF camera itself by varying the distance between the lens and the film. The Synchro Compur is the shutter/aperture mechanism which comes standard with the lens as...

No brutal chainsaw was used to cut the original pair of yashica GSNs. Only a small hacksaw was used. I think I should have some pictures of the building up process somewhere at home, so I will try to find them and post it here. The two halves are then joined back using mostly epoxy glue with...

It is very kind of eddie to put up some pictures of the pano camera I am using. Maybe I will try to fill in some information that is left out by eddie as we hardly have time to talk more during the very hectic schedule of Crossing Bridges 7. First, some history about the pano camera. The...

While 620 film has been EOL-ed sometime back, some people actually respool normal 120 film onto 620 film spool so that they can use it on the 620 cameras. This is possible because 120 and 620 has the same film dimensions but with a different spool design. e905591s