Fuji G617
The Fuji G617 is a medium format panoramic camera that produces four 6x17cm images on a roll of 120 film. It is essentially a large format Fuji lens mounted on a medium format body. The camera is easy to use with its simple controls and produces excellent images.
Unlike its brother - the GX617 with its interchangeable lenses - the G617 has a fixed 105mm f/8 lens. This lens serves as a great standard lens on the camera, delivering a nice field of view left to right, though top to bottom can feel a bit tight. Additionally it is recommended that the camera be used with a center spot ND filter as the 6x17 image experiences exposure fall off at its edges. The filter is designed to give even exposure edge to edge. In practice though, unless you are using slide film in the G617 or shooting evenly lit sky, you likely won't notice this fall off much at all.
The G617 has hand grips on its sides, a big roll cage to protect the lens sticking out from the front of the camera and a shutter release with film advance on the body of the camera. The roll cage includes a bubble level that can be seen through the viewfinder, which is incredibly helpful as tilted horizons are exacerbated in this format. The lens is focused via a helicoid on the barrel without the aid of a rangefinder. Shutter and aperture are mechanically set on the lens, and an arming lever must also be set before the shutter release on the body can be tripped.
This camera is 220 capable and if one can find any 220 film, this would be the perfect camera to feed it to as you would get a reasonable eight shots per roll with it instead of the standard four exposures.
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