Squeezing BMF into MF

[Mr Bump]

ok so i keep seeing quite a lot of old cameras that talk about 11x6.5 or therabouts.
i guess that must have been a long forgotten panoramic format?
i also read cameras can be modded to run standard MF film ?

anyone done it?

 

[Asha]

Iirc 116 film is the size that you mention......i have some! Lol

Cameras that originally used 116 can be used with 120 but a bit of an adaption has to be made and masking of the viewfinder

 

[Mr Bump]

ahhhhh.....so i see 116 film another flippin kodak special..... bunch-0-muppets

 

[steveo_mcg]

Kodak made formats to suit cameras and to fill gaps. Remember most of these wouldn't have been enlarged much, if at all. So you needed a format to fit the purpose.

 

[Asha]

Well from what i recall it ran for about 80 years so it was hardly a weekend special offer film lol

 

[Mr Bump]

Well from what i recall it ran for about 80 years so it was hardly a weekend special offer film lol

yeah but 620 was like that.
they were just being blimmin awkward

 

[pingu666]

620 is nearly the same as 120, from memory it had a skinny spool?

 

[Asha]

620 is nearly the same as 120, from memory it had a skinny spool?

Yep....Kodak put their 120 spools through a fitness regime of losing weight to fit a slim fashion

 

[Yv]

Yep....Kodak put their 120 spools through a fitness regime of losing weight to fit a slim fashion

which generally leaves us 'modern' photographers scrabbling around for available 620 film, or scrabbling around in the dark with fat and thin spools, to which there has to be an obvious joke...