[rollei_list] Re: Rolleikin musing
----- Original Message ----- From: "Sanders McNew" <sanders@xxxxxxxxx> 
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Sent: Monday, November 16, 2009 11:20 PM
Subject: [rollei_list] Rolleikin musing


Rolleikins never interested me but this discussion
got me to thinking:  Has anyone ever hacked a
Rolleiflex and Rolleikin to create a 24x60 format?

Possible?
I don't think there would be much advantage to such a rig since the main reason for the existence of the Rolleikin was to make it possible to use films in the Rollei camera which were not available in 120 size. This includes many early color films. While it is wasteful of film to crop out a narrow area of the 120 negative that is the only drawback to what you are contimplating. Remember, that for a panoramic image the lens focal length should really be considerably shorter than one has in the Rollei. As far as the machinery, have a look at a Rolleikin, it is a very cleverly designed adaptor with means for keeping the film flat and counting frames. I think it would take at least a similarly precise device for any other format based on 35mm film. In short, I don't think its either practical or would be satisfactory due to the focal length of the Rollei lens. The Rollei panoramic adaptor does a fairly good job but the individual images must be stitched using an image editing program since the images must be corrected for the mis-matches which inevitably occur at the edges and corners due to the nature of "normal" lenses. In fact, I have doubts that the panoramic pictures which appear in the old Rollei literature were actually made with a Rollei, they look like they were takan with a rotating camera like the Cirkut camera. It is possible to correct these images optically but its not simple. 

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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles, CA, USA
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