Re: [Cameramakers] Making lens focus farther from film.

2000-12-31 Thread Gene Johnson
John, A super wide 6x6 would be awesome. I've seen one that was made with a peephole from a door divided into two parts and glued into a shutter in place of the old elements! pretty extreme, but the images were better than you'd think. Wide angle lenses for med. format seem to be real hard to

Re: [Cameramakers] Making lens focus farther from film.

2000-12-31 Thread george jiri loun
  - Original Message - From: John Yeo To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2000 5:44 AM Subject: [Cameramakers] Making lens focus farther from film. Hello Group, I am toying with the idea of making a 6x6 superwide camera.  I have a

[Cameramakers] Making lens focus farther from film.

2000-12-30 Thread John Yeo
Hello Group, I am toying with the idea of making a 6x6 superwide camera.  I have a 28mm lens designed for a 35mm camera, but it doesn't come close to covering 6x6. I set up a test with the lens taped to some bellows from a polaroid camera, and the bellows taped to a piece of ground glass..