New Chroma Digital camera Six:17 medium format digicam that shoots panoramas on 120 movie

Chroma Digital camera has launched the Six:17, the most recent in its vary of medium format cameras. The Six:17 shoots 6 x 17 cm frames on 120 movie, permitting for panoramic pictures on 120 movie, which is troublesome to realize with out specialised costly cameras.

The Six:17 digicam is constituted of 3D-printed PLA and laser-cut acrylic and makes use of magnetic interchangeable lens cones that permit for a variety of focal lengths for use. Moreover, it has a completely detachable movie again with an built-in darkslide, so lenses could be swapped mid-roll. It may be ordered on the Chroma Digital camera web site and purchased for £425. The estimated construct time for every digicam is 3-4 weeks.

Chroma Digital camera’s Steve Lloyd, who introduced the digicam on 6 June spoke to Kosmo Foto in regards to the new digicam, noting that its ‘mild’ weight (412g with out lens) for such a large format makes it an excellent match for a lot of forms of images, together with panorama, environmental, portrait and studio. He mentioned quite a few lenses are suitable with it and that there’s a listing of recognized suitable lenses that may be discovered on his web site. He then defined, ‘Primarily, the picture circle must be 178mm or bigger, which is mostly 5 x 7 format suitable lenses, because it’s round 50mm bigger than a 4 x 5 digicam requires’.

‘I’ve constructed up a various vary of cameras within the Chroma Household, masking a number of codecs together with 135, 120, Instax and 4×5 they usually all have their followers,’ Lloyd mentioned. ‘While 6 x 17 is probably going a smaller area of interest than my different codecs, I at all times attempt to provide my cameras at a value that doesn’t make them unattainable for almost all of photographers. I’m hoping this strategy can encourage extra folks to check out movie images going forwards.’

Associated content material:

Comply with AP on Fb, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and TikTok.