Has anyone seen/got a Panoramic F by Siciliano Camera Works? According to the Italian Fotographia magazine, 30 were produced.
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Posts: 153 (02/23/2008 09:46 AM) |
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Posts: 13 (03/05/2008 11:17 PM) |
I have seen this camera, it is a Nikon F body modified by Siciliano Brooklyn N.Y., frame size is 24x72mm (1:3 ratio), very well made, a real state of the
art ! they modified a Mamiya 55mm lens that covers well the 24x72mm format to fit the front of the Nikon F. Best w.a. lens made for the Mamiya press 23.
Prism was removed to accept the mamiya finder. If I remember right the camera was labeled "panarama". Very rare animal !!! also..... years ago ,
the legendary Jim Lipari in Omaha ( well know for fixing and tuning Cirkut cameras) he modified Nikon F for a 360 degrees spinning, for truly panorama
images. he managed to add an electric motor at the base (strange enough he had "sicilian" heritage!).
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Posts: 153 (03/06/2008 05:35 AM) |
I have scan photos of this camera, and it does look well made. The name inscribed on the camera is PANNAROMA 1X3 (with 2Ns). The lens on this particular one is
a Mamiya 50mm f6.3. I guess if the gears were not modified, one would have to wind twice for each shot.
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Posts: 13 (03/06/2008 09:56 AM) |
I did find my notes on the F modified by Siciliano, and yes it say PANNAROMA, "SICILIANO CAMERA WORKS BROOKLYN N.Y." the "pannaroma" that I saw had a ser# 13015 and it an F # 675XXXX, you are correct the lens is a Mamiya Sekor 50mm f 6.3. that lens hits almost the corner of 6x12cm format , so on 24x72mm does really well almost with zero light fall off at the edges. |
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