Horizont Camera Panoramic Images
Cerro Pedernal in Northern New Mexico
I recently picked up a Russian-built Horizont panoramic camera. In the 1970s I was one of the few distributors of the Widelux camera in the United States and have always been fascinated with panoramic images so the Horizont intrigued me. I've just started using the Horizont but thought I'd post a few of the first images I've taken and then add more as time goes on. I thought the sepia toning for the initial batch added a nice touch.
The three most recent images were taken to simply finish off a roll of film that I had forgotten the ISO and just wanted to put in a fresh roll that I knew what was in the camera. I've started taping the end flap of a film box onto the camera's strap to remind me of the current film in the camera and avoid situations like this.
The Horizont is a rotating lens camera built like a brick. It differs from the Widelux in that to obtain different exposures, it opens or closes the slit that rotates to let in more or less light but the rotational speed stays the same unlike a Widelux where the shutter speeds determine the roational speed of the lens.
There was one minor glitch when the camera arrived. It didn't include the original viewfinder so I had to adapt a 15mm viewfinder I had on hand to the top of the camera. It doesn't cover 120 degrees, but is close enough to give me an idea of what the camera will deliver.
The three most recent images were taken to simply finish off a roll of film that I had forgotten the ISO and just wanted to put in a fresh roll that I knew what was in the camera. I've started taping the end flap of a film box onto the camera's strap to remind me of the current film in the camera and avoid situations like this.
The Horizont is a rotating lens camera built like a brick. It differs from the Widelux in that to obtain different exposures, it opens or closes the slit that rotates to let in more or less light but the rotational speed stays the same unlike a Widelux where the shutter speeds determine the roational speed of the lens.
There was one minor glitch when the camera arrived. It didn't include the original viewfinder so I had to adapt a 15mm viewfinder I had on hand to the top of the camera. It doesn't cover 120 degrees, but is close enough to give me an idea of what the camera will deliver.
A vertical view of Cerro Pedernal
The cross at the Santa Rosa de Lima church ruins in Abiquiu, New Mexico. above and seen from the interior of the ruins, below
Interior of the Santa Rosa de Lima church ruins in Abiquiu,
The railyard in Santa Fe, New Mexico, photographed with the Horizont panoramic camera on Ilford Ortho Plus (above and below)
A ghostly looking morning at Abiquiu Dam, Rio Arriba County in Northern New Mexico
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