how to shoot panoramic photographs using 35mm slr film camera?

Answer 1

Crop. Some 35mm cameras with a panoramic mode do this in camera with a mask in front of the film plane.

Answer 2

if you are going to be using a tripod, and you feel that it is worth the investment, you can buy "stops" for your tripod, which will only let you swing the camera far enough to take the next part of the image.

hasselblad makes a camera called the Xpan that shoots 35mm film, and can shoot in a wide variety of panoramic formats. it's an expensive camera, but the best available for what you have in mind.

a cheaper solution would be to work digitally, although you will lose some quality when you switch from optical to digital, unless you're spending serious money to use things like drum scanners, at which point you could just use the hasselblad.

you might be able to find a place that would rent you a nice panoramic camera for the day, depending on where you live. you should speak to your local camera shop about that.

Answer 3

Wow, the guys above were a real help... Now, let me give you the correct answer.

The best way to do that is to mount your 35mm slr on a tripod for starters.

Start on the far left of what is going to create your pano image. Take the photograph.

Swing your camera to the right some so that the far left of the new frame overlaps a littlbit of the far right of the previous image. Take the picture.

Repeat the above two steps for however far you want to make this pano image.

Now, you can then take it into your local photo processor and explain that you want those images stitched into a pano or have those images burned to a blank CD and then do the pano stitching yourself in any image editing software.

Answer 4

The only way I know how to is by taking several pictures. You will need a tripod to do so. If you visually mark where you took the last picture you can get a really cool panoramic. You can get it to the point were you can take a complete 360 view.

Answer 5

use your widest-angle lens, 35, 28 or whatever, even a 50 will do

go back a long way from your subject on a bright day

focus very carefully and take your photos, using a tripod and probably your camera timer to avoid shake

when you get the negs back, mask them top and bottom to get a panoramic and print them again.

ditto for digital.

Answer 6

You can't, unless you have a special dedicated camera for this purpose, you can buy one:(http://www.ephotozine.com/equipment/buyersguide/fullbuyersguide.cfm?buyersguideid=6.
Or you can build one:
http://www.funsci.com/fun3_en/panoram2/pan2_en.htm
You can, if you take more than one picture and than put them together. Or, scan the film, dump it in Photoshop or some other program (it is a bunch of them out there, try google) and overlap them nice. Make sure in this case that your camera is perfectly bubled.
You can, if you reframe it, basicaly cut the upper and the lower edges out (that's gonna decrease the resolution).
I hope that was helpfull.
Cristian