Widepan Pro II 140

Widepan Pro II 140 image by Rachel Rayns (Image rights)

The Widepan Pro II 140 is a medium format panoramic camera manufactured by Panflex Camera, LLC Phenix. It was mostly distributed by Yasuhara and Lomography.

The camera uses a 140 degree swing type lens of 50mm f/3.8-f/22. It is Tessar based lens design made from, 4 elements in 3 groups. It has a minimum focus range of 0,8m. the aperture and focus range can be adjusted on the lens shield. This produces images of 50 x 110mm. It uses 120 film and shoot 6 frames per roll, on 220 film it can capture 12 frames per roll. A 35mm film adapter allows you produce long negative of 110mm x 24mm. It has three shutter speeds of 1/250, 1/60, and 1/2 second. The viewfinder is removable and has approximately 112° view with a 0.4x magnification. There is a spirit level built in on top of the finder, but can also be viewed within. A finder mask is provided for 35mm films. The film is manually advanced, with multi-exposure prevention, but can be defeated with a un-marked button located by the film advance knob. A upwards exposure counter is provided, but it does not differentiate between 120 or 220 films, so on 120 film exposure 7-12 will yield no photos. When using 36 exposure 35mm film, the exposure counter start at 0 and end at 9. The back has film reminder memo holder for film box tops. It uses 2x LR44 1.5v batteries, but is not required for basic camera operation, it is used for LED lighting of the shutter speed pressing a un-marked button by the shutter knob. There are two tripod sockets on the base.

top view image by Rachel Rayns (Image rights)

film chamber image by Rachel Rayns (Image rights)