On Sun, 08 Nov 1998 22:17:20 -0500, Peter Glendinning wrote:

>A project which is tailor-made for panorama work awaits me, but I'm torn
>between whether I should be buying a Fuji G617 or Noblex 150-U (both 120
>film cameras), or a Noblex 135-U or the new Hasselblad XPan...... anyone
>with true panorama camera experience out there (not the slit-mask type
>common to P&S cameras these days) with some suggestions? Thanks in
>advance. PG

You mention two different types of cameras...
The first and fourth are essentially the "slit-mask type",
but applied to larger image area cameras. These are limited
in width, but can maintain rectilinear perspective. The
"swing lens type" (Noblex, Panon, Horizon, etc.) can
cover a wider angle (often with more even illumination),
but horizontal lines off center are curved. I consider the
first type pretty silly, since they are rather expensive
in larger-format sizes, they aren't especially wide, and
the same result can often be had by cropping larger film
shot in much cheaper cameras...