p.1 #1 · Sasquatch 6x17 Camera - Stainless Steel Frame with 3D Printed Parts
This was posted (by the makers) over at APUG, figured I'd post it here too. Pretty cool, especially the industrial design. Apparently they wanted an XPan and figured, why bother with 35mm? I wish them success. I am not sure I have enough film in my storeroom to make something like this viable long-term!
p.1 #2 · Sasquatch 6x17 Camera - Stainless Steel Frame with 3D Printed Parts
Very cool design and camera. I had a 3D printed 6x17 for a while. This looks substantially improved in build. 6x17 is fun, but to your point it just eats through film. Ultimately, I didn't bring it with me enough because the camera itself was quite large. I now have a somewhat smaller Veriwide 100 that gets 7 shots at least!
p.1 #4 · Sasquatch 6x17 Camera - Stainless Steel Frame with 3D Printed Parts
You can’t use 220 in a camera like this because there’s no backing paper.
EB-1 wrote:
Does the pressure plate have a 220 setting? 120 is ridiculous for 6x17. It could use some vertical movements, but maybe in the next iteration.
p.1 #7 · Sasquatch 6x17 Camera - Stainless Steel Frame with 3D Printed Parts
EB-1 wrote:
Damn, that's terrible for the large formats. It's the same film without paper so why not, just volume?
EBH
Wedding photographers were the main users of 220 film. When they switched to digital, the market dried up, the manufactures dropped it from their catalog.
Not all labs will process 220 film; mine does but they charge extra.
A few years back Cinestill announced they would start making some 220 films but I don't see any currently listed on their website. There isn't a lot of demand, but some cameras (including my Mamiya C330) have a 220 setting; I shot a couple of rolls of the Reflx Lab Pro 100 (Kodak Aerocolor) film in 220 a year or two ago and it was fun to have 24 exposures in a roll.
p.1 #10 · Sasquatch 6x17 Camera - Stainless Steel Frame with 3D Printed Parts
Just to elaborate on corposant's post, most 3D printed cameras only shoot 120 because the film is advanced manually until you reach the next number on the backing paper (which you view through a red window on the back of the camera). There are a lot of technical hurdles to printing a fully indexed advance mechanism, including an auto-reset film counter, a racheted advance mechanism that can be unlocked to move forward one frame but also advance freely at the beginning and end of a roll or while the back is open, and the physical length of panoramic format films. It adds a lot of complication and small scale parts so it's usually skipped.
p.1 #11 · Sasquatch 6x17 Camera - Stainless Steel Frame with 3D Printed Parts
I did not realize so few 220 were around now. I was lucky to have Fuji and Mamiya 120/220 cameras back in the 90s that had geared advance and plate settings.
I used a Kodak Brownie Hawkeye Flash as small child with that red window for the 620 film so I know what that is although I did not understand the costs savings reason at the time.
It's the same film without paper so why not, just volume?