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The Ansco Pix Panorama is an all-plastic, focus-free 35mm camera made in China[1]. Effectively a box camera, there are no exposure adjustments and no provision for flash. The film gate in the camera is masked so as to only expose an image of 13×36 mm, rather than the conventional 24×36 mm[2]. Photofinishers were expected to enlarge this cropped negative into wider-than-standard panoramic prints: 89 x 254 mm or 3.5" x 10". This effectively doubles the amount of negative enlargement required (compared to standard 3:2 prints), with a resulting increase in the graininess of the image. The Pix Panorama's lens has a focal length of approximately 27mm, and in contrast to other cameras in this class its two-element design offers reasonable sharpness. A few Pix Panorama users discovered that the film-gate mask could be snapped out, and that its lens gives good coverage over the entire standard 24x36mm frame-although the viewfinder remained cropped to the panoramic format. However the front of the camera shell can be removed by loosening four small screws, revealing that the viewfinder optics themselves are the same ones used for conventional 3:2 proportions; so if desired, the viewfinder mask can be cut away. The Pix Panorama does have the flaw of being a bit larger and boxier than some other "cult" plastic cameras, such as the Vivitar Ultra Wide and Slim. The bottom of the Pix Panorama cites U.S. Patent 4,595,269[3], for a double-exposure prevention mechanism. This patent dates from 1986, and is assigned to Haking in Hong Kong. Haking became the owner of the Ansco name, and offered its own version of this camera branded as the Halina Panorama.

Ansco PIx Panorama 35mm Camera

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hey we're back at it today with another cheap plastic camera challenge and it has been a long time since I've done one of these challenges the last challenge I did was the Olympus trip challenge and that was all the way back in November of 2019 so in these challenges the rules are pretty simple I take two similar cheap plastic cameras load them with identical rolls of film go out and shoot the same content on both cameras and then come back here and review the results to see which camera helps get the most satisfying images for today's episode we've got a fake panoramic cheap plastic camera challenge back in the late 80s and 90s fake panoramic cameras were a thing they were really just 35 millimeter cameras that had a little mask inside that would prevent you from exposing the whole frame so instead of getting the usual 24 by 36 millimeter aspect ratio they would only expose about 13 mi