Hello,
The interest of using swing-lens 35mm and 645 as panoramic image
presentation has me asking, who makes the best card/cassette frames to
hold such short hight but wide slide film 'chips'?
These new chinese viewers are pretty good but the Tri-angle lensed
chinese camera seems a tad early in the development cycle and it might
be wise to wait fot the cameras to become a little more eloquent.
Are premade 24x56 cards available?
Thanks

Roger Jackson
311 Polk Street
Port Townsend, WA.
98368

digitalworldtraveler wrote:

> Hello, The interest of using swing-lens 35mm and 645 as
> panoramic image presentation has me asking, who makes the best
> card/cassette frames to hold such short hight but wide slide
> film 'chips'?

The usual sources, Roger.

3DStereo has some listed (though I hope they have them pictured
upside-down):
http://www.3dstereo.com/viewmaster/cmf-5x2r.html

Rocky Mountain Memories also sells them
http://www.rmm3d.com/supplies/spicer.mf.html
though you will need to chat with Paul Talbot regarding availability.

Granted these are both 23mmx52mm apertures rather than your
requested 24x56 apertures. 56mm wide apertures are gong to be
hard to work with and I've never seen any mounts with apertures
that wide.

The first problem is 56+56=112. On an 80x132mm cardboard mount,
that doesn't leave very much material to keep it from collapsing.
The second problem is finding a viewer with lenses which will
cover 56mm wide images. I'm not sure the lenses in the Chinese
viewer are up to the task. The last issue is the width of the
image apertures in the viewer. The Chinese viewer has 56mm wide
apertures, but they are spaced at 65mm. You'll need to make some
modifications to the viewer if you want to use pano-mounts in it
without clipping the edges.

Not directly applicable to your quest for mounts for 35mm film
but still of interest, Rocky Mountain Memories also has an MFW
(or MFRH, it depends if you want to think of them as Wide or
Reduced Height) mount which has 46x52 apertures. I'm really
enjoying those with my TL120-55.

> These new chinese viewers are pretty good but the Tri-angle
> lensed chinese camera seems a tad early in the development
> cycle and it might be wise to wait fot the cameras to become a
> little more eloquent.

Yowsers. How long do you need to wait? Granted, the camera isn't
inexpensive or light weight, but how long do you think these
things are going to be made and imported? How much more mature or
eloquent do you expect the product to become before it disappears
entirely?
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John Thurston
Juneau, Alaska