Horizon 202, more panoramic pictures

The Horizon 202 is a very capable yet simple camera. It needs no focusing and exposure must be determined by the user. There is an air buble level to help keep the camera horizontal, in this way horizontal lines passing from the center of the image are kept horizontal.

Here are some more samples from the film that I did not correctly loaded.

 

The last frames had an overlap, I thought the advance lever was stucked. but it was the end of the film

 

At the cafe

  

Walking at the seafront

  

Horizon 202, wide panoramic and impressive pictures

The Horizon 202 is a great manual panoramic camera.

 This time I did not loaded the film well, it was not laid out well and gave some out of focus areas at the right side of the images.

Here are some samples

 

 

More from the Horizon 202 panoramic camera.

The camera has a bubble lever to keep the camera horizontal. That way horizontal lines in the middle appear straight while all other lines appear curved. If there are moving objects, the ones moving to the right of the camera look elongated while the ones moving to the left appear compressed.

The camera needs a small tripod to hold it in order not to get the fingers recorded in the picture.

One panoramic view of the monument

and one showing the surroundings

a vertical (and slightly croped) one

moving cars at 1/60th sec

at a mall



Horizon 202 panoramic

This is a rare find from the street sellers. It has a swing lens that turns from left to right, exposing the film little by little as the lens turns. It is a manual exposure only camera with two speed sets, a yellow one for low light (1/8, 1/4, 1/2 sec) and a white one for daylight panoramas (1/60, 1/125 and 1/250).
apertures range from f2.8 to f16. I would like an f22 and a 1/500sec speed but it is ok like this also.

I loaded the camera with a Kodak 200 ASA film and went to action. The camera takes 22 elongated 24x58mm pictures and need special scanners to get digitized. I was very pleased with the results. The angle of view is an enormous 120 degrees, needs attention not to include the fingers in the picture. It seems like the viewer takes part in the action.

Monastiraki square

A white banding visible is caused by internal reflections.