I printed out some adapters to use 35mm film in my Hasselblad. First time doing this and I stupidly loaded the film the wrong way around! Well I lost the whole roll... brand new Ektachrome E100 also. Not wanting to waste another expensive roll, I bought some Kodak Gold 400, which I've never tried before. Luckily, I figured out what I did wrong and loaded everything correctly this time. A trick I learned from a youtube video is taping an extra length of film about 18" to the lead in order to use the shot counter normally and squeeze as many exposures out as possible. I was able to get 21 shots out of a roll in an A24 back I had lying around (of course, not all were keepers...).
One big ergonomic challenge with this is that the film back scrolls vertically in a Hasselblad, so the film is in portrait orientation holding it normally. Shooting normal panoramic shots ala XPAN requires turning the camera sideways, and I don't know if you've ever tried to shoot a Hasselblad turned on its side (why would you?), but it's awkward to say the least. Using a focusing screen is even more challenging because the image is upside-down! Using a viewfinder fixes this at least and makes panoramic shots easier to hold and focus. I think shooting 35mm film in a medium format camera is a lot easier in cameras like the Pentax 67. So more of my shots were composed vertically than I probably would have otherwise. I did make a little framing guide to sit on top of the acute matte screen to help, otherwise you just have to eyeball where the film might be.
Anyways, here's my first one! I shot the whole roll with my Zeiss 80/2.8.
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Graham Gibson, on Flickr