One of the videos showed someone try out 'Panoramic Mode' where you tuck the paper into the slots inside the camera so I thought I would try it just to see what it captures. I was not going for a nice scene, just shooting out my kitchen door.
On my first attempt I put in the developer first then starting tilting it a long way side to side as the paper is not now sitting flat on the bottom. It did not work. It was very obvious where the developer went before I started agitating. I did not keep the photo but what I got was a central square section developed properly then the out edges were only half developed and half fixed.
I tried again and this time I starting tilting it as I started putting in the developer. This worked better but it still gave a very erratic result, probably because even large tilting will not evenly cover a curved piece of paper unless you half filled the whole camera with developer. That is the top photo in the white frame. Those white patches are not artifacts from when I photographed the finished print, They are on the print. To compare, I then took a normal landscape photo of the same scene. To be honest I cannot see that the 'panorama' covered a wider view. I probably should have taken out the light baffle for the pano as that may have caused the black bars either side but I still think it would not have been wider than the landscape photo. I should mention that the first was taken in full sunshine for 90 seconds and the second in duller light for 4 minutes. None of the above is a criticism as they don't really sell it with a promise to do panoramic photos. It was just an experiment. With practice I could probably get an evenly developed pano photo but I don't think I will try again myself as I cannot see much advantage other than that it might have reduced the fish-eye effect slightly as the fence looks straighter though oddly uneven (or is my fence just wonky anyway? :-) )
You know what is stupid? When I considered doing this yesterday I did actually say to myself "I will probably have to put it back in the bag and lay the paper down the normal way before I add the chemicals." then I forgot that entirely until I saw these replies 🙄 The joys of getting old.
Hiya Robin, yes you need to resituate the paper after exposure in order to develop properly. Unfortunately as I was in a bit of a rush at that stage of the development I perhaps didn't test the panoramic feature as much as I could have, it was a bit of a last minute add on. I think on future batches we'll move the slots nearer to the pinhole which will give a wider angle. What it does do is take a photo at a similar angle but with no wide angle distortion which is actually pretty cool and makes for an unusual image! I don't know of any other camera that can achieve this. I suspect your fence may be a bit wonky?? 😆😆
Did you , after exposure , put the camera back in the dark bag and re situate the paper flat , as normal before developing ??