[dsmithhfx]

[ivanvernon]

Crossposting the text from the "Panorama-orama - Post your Panos" thread but with different images:

Some old school analog panoramas from the Z-1p (a/k/a PZ-1p) film camera in pano mode, taken in 1995 in the central High Atlas, Morocco on Fuji Reala.

When Pentax updated the Z-1 in 1994 they included a "pano mode" restricting the film window to something like 13x36mm. While the Pentax Z-1p served as my main camera from 1995 to 2007, I only ever took one roll of film in pano mode. This was over several days in late autumn of 1995 while I was living in a small Berber/Imazighen village in the Assif Melloul region (also referred to as plateau des lacs in French) in the Moroccan central High Atlas to do ethnographic fieldwork. When my co-researcher (also a Pentax shooter) had to go back to Austria for several weeks due to health problems, I was left with a spare Z-1p body in addition to the Z-1p and LX bodies I was using. So I decided to do a roll of Fuji Reala in pano mode. I took most of the images in the early morning before starting working, many of them with the FA* 200mm. For more images see the flickr album here.

smc Pentax-FA* 1:2.8 200mm IF ED



smc Pentax-A Macro 1:2.8 100mm?



smc Pentax-FA* 1:2.8 200mm IF ED



smc Pentax-A Macro 1:2.8 100mm?

Very nice series of shots. I have the Z1P and you are inspiring me to set it on P and use a roll of film that way.

[Swift1]

Pentax 645N
SMC Pentax-FA 645 75/2.8
Kodak Ektar 100 @200
Epson V500

[dsmithhfx]

[Swift1]

This is from the first roll through my $9 SF1N.

Pentax SF1N
SMC Pentax-F 28/2.8
Lomo F²/400 Color Negative
Epson V750-M Pro

[g026r]

That came out rather grainy. Just the fact that the film is expired stock, or does the camera appear to be exposing incorrectly?

[Swift1]

That came out rather grainy. Just the fact that the film is expired stock, or does the camera appear to be exposing incorrectly?

It's the film stock. I got the same results using that film in my Z-1p.
As near I can tell, the SF1N is working perfectly.

[wkraus]

Very nice series of shots. I have the Z1P and you are inspiring me to set it on P and use a roll of film that way.

Thank you! I still have my Z-1p but it is no longer "P-capable" as I replaced the bottom plate with one from a Z-1 without the P switch after it broke for the second time.

[dsmithhfx]

[Swift1]

Another from the SF1N.

Pentax SF1N
SMC Pentax-F 28/2.8
Lomo F²/400 Color Negative
Epson V750-M Pro

[murrelet]

Another from the SF1N.

Same building, different view.



800 SE Grand Ave by Benjamin Chan on 500px.com
Pentax ME, Kodak Ektar 100

[dsmithhfx]

Acros, SP, supertak 50/1.4, lab

[Bonner04]

Pentax MZ-3 ,Pentax smc P-FA 77mm f/1.8 Limited ,Kodak TMAX 100

[edmundrt]

In the trees at Togan-ji temple, Nagoya.
Pentax ME, M50/1.4, Fujicolor 100

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