Take a pair of scissor to the print!
Otherwise choose your favorite square in the darkroom or on the scanner!
At 12:00 AM 4/5/01 +0100, you wrote:
>
> Last weekend I discussed with my eldest son (an poor student) his desire to
>do some "square" format photography. He has a Pentax MG and a SFX1n. He
>uses the MG mostly and was considering selling the SFXn to finance the
>purchase of a Kiev 60. The discussion led to my assertion that I had heard
>that Kievs were unreliable and he might be better looking for an old Yashica
>or Rollie TLR. It turns out though that he is not really bothered about the
>larger format of 120 just the square shape. Which brings me to my question:
>
>As the SFXn has removable focusing screens he could buy another screen and
>mask it to square format. It may even be possible to mask the shutter
>opening in a similar way to the panorama mode on the MZ/ZX cameras. Has
>anyone tried this? Any pitfalls to avoid apart from the obvious one of
>ruining the shutter with sticky tape. And no he's tried masking in the
>imagination but it doesn't work for him.
>
>Also I've never seen SFXn focusing screens advertised - are they the same as
>the ones for the LX or MX?
>
>Peter
>
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