Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/04/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]One of the less-used things in my Oddball Gizmos Box (we've all got one of those, haven't we?) is an anamorphic lens attachment. It happens to fit over an A36-mount lens, but was presumably not intended to, as it vignettes so much that even a half-frame-sized image would lose a bit in the corners; it must have been for a 16mm movie camera. So all I've done with it is make a few weirdly squished self-portraits (don't like the idea of doing that to somebody else's features). Idle curiosity: did anybody ever try this route to doing panoramic-format photography on 35mm? I presume that if it was tried for any system, Leica screwmount would have been it. (It would seem to be an obvious thing to use for shooting stills of wide-format movies, so maybe there was actually a market for such a lens and its partner enlarger lens). - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack Campin 2 Haddington Place, Edinburgh EH7 4AE, Scotland 0131 556 5272 http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/purrhome.html - for resources on food allergy & intolerance; McCarrison Society pages; freeware logic fonts for the Mac