Lomography Hydrochrome - Sutton's Panoramic Belair Camera
This is a recent novelty camera from Lomography. It uses the liquid filled lens that was first released with the Lomomod No.1 DIY cardboard medium format camera. The gimmick here is that one of the lens' three elements is liquid filled, the liquid being supplied and installed by the user. This version of the camera is based on the Belair 6x12 camera from 2012, that came with a 120 film back, the Hydrochrome comes with the 35mm panoramic back. These backs are interchangeable, so I decided to try it out with the 120 back, as I have plenty of spare expired 120 film to play with.

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Lomography Hydrochrome - Sutton's Panoramic Belair Camera
This is a recent novelty camera from Lomography. It uses the liquid filled lens that was first released with the Lomomod No.1 DIY cardboard medium format camera. The gimmick here is that one of the lens' three elements is liquid filled, the liquid being supplied and installed by the user. This version of the camera is based on the Belair 6x12 camera from 2012, that came with a 120 film back, the Hydrochrome comes with the 35mm panoramic back. These backs are interchangeable, so I decided to try it out with the 120 back, as I have plenty of spare expired 120 film to play with.

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Lomography Hydrochrome - Sutton's Panoramic Belair Camera
This is a recent novelty camera from Lomography. It uses the liquid filled lens that was first released with the Lomomod No.1 DIY cardboard medium format camera. The gimmick here is that one of the lens' three elements is liquid filled, the liquid being supplied and installed by the user.
For my first use of the Sutton's Panoramic Belair Camera I used tap water as the liquid for the lens. Although this camera came with a 35mm back, I decided to use the 120 back from my Belair X 6-12. I used the 6cm x 12cm mask, which gives six exposures on a roll, I also used the 90mm viewfinder instead of the panoramic frame finder that came with the new camera, as I though this would give a better idea of the framing, which I know from previous experience with the Belair is a bit rough and ready anyway. The lens comes with Waterhouse stops for f16, f22, f32 and f168 (pinhole). I tried all of these, and also without a stop, which is probably around f11. With a slow film and winter light, I used multiple clicks for two of my negatives to ensure enough exposure, with two of the others I used a tripod and approximately 2 seconds exposure, the one without a stop was a single hand held exposure. The pinhole photo taken indoors was grossly underexposed at 3 minutes.
Next time I use 120 film with this lens, I'll use the 6cm x 9cm film plane mask, as the coverage of the lens doesn't extend to 12cm.
This one was taken at f32 with a 2 second exposure.
Expired Fuji Velvia ISO 50 slide film cross-processed in the Tetenal C41 kit.

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Lomography Hydrochrome - Sutton's Panoramic Belair Camera
This is a recent novelty camera from Lomography. It uses the liquid filled lens that was first released with the Lomomod No.1 DIY cardboard medium format camera. The gimmick here is that one of the lens' three elements is liquid filled, the liquid being supplied and installed by the user.
For my first use of the Sutton's Panoramic Belair Camera I used tap water as the liquid for the lens. Although this camera came with a 35mm back, I decided to use the 120 back from my Belair X 6-12. I used the 6cm x 12cm mask, which gives six exposures on a roll, I also used the 90mm viewfinder instead of the panoramic frame finder that came with the new camera, as I though this would give a better idea of the framing, which I know from previous experience with the Belair is a bit rough and ready anyway. The lens comes with Waterhouse stops for f16, f22, f32 and f168 (pinhole). I tried all of these, and also without a stop, which is probably around f11. With a slow film and winter light, I used multiple clicks for two of my negatives to ensure enough exposure, with two of the others I used a tripod and approximately 2 seconds exposure, the one without a stop was a single hand held exposure. The pinhole photo taken indoors was grossly underexposed at 3 minutes.
Next time I use 120 film with this lens, I'll use the 6cm x 9cm film plane mask, as the coverage of the lens doesn't extend to 12cm.
This one was taken at f11.
Expired Fuji Velvia ISO 50 slide film cross-processed in the Tetenal C41 kit.

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Lomography Hydrochrome - Sutton's Panoramic Belair Camera
This is a recent novelty camera from Lomography. It uses the liquid filled lens that was first released with the Lomomod No.1 DIY cardboard medium format camera. The gimmick here is that one of the lens' three elements is liquid filled, the liquid being supplied and installed by the user.
For my first use of the Sutton's Panoramic Belair Camera I used tap water as the liquid for the lens. Although this camera came with a 35mm back, I decided to use the 120 back from my Belair X 6-12. I used the 6cm x 12cm mask, which gives six exposures on a roll, I also used the 90mm viewfinder instead of the panoramic frame finder that came with the new camera, as I though this would give a better idea of the framing, which I know from previous experience with the Belair is a bit rough and ready anyway. The lens comes with Waterhouse stops for f16, f22, f32 and f168 (pinhole). I tried all of these, and also without a stop, which is probably around f11. With a slow film and winter light, I used multiple clicks for two of my negatives to ensure enough exposure, with two of the others I used a tripod and approximately 2 seconds exposure, the one without a stop was a single hand held exposure. The pinhole photo taken indoors was grossly underexposed at 3 minutes.
Next time I use 120 film with this lens, I'll use the 6cm x 9cm film plane mask, as the coverage of the lens doesn't extend to 12cm.
This one was taken at f32 with a 2 second exposure.
Expired Fuji Velvia ISO 50 slide film cross-processed in the Tetenal C41 kit.

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