Xpan Users

[david b]

Hey...we've got a nice new home.

Thanks Sean.

 

[Nicole]

Congratulations!

 

[photobum]

Let me be the first to bitch. I use a Linhof 612. So at 2:1 this means I'm still homeless? What autocrat came up with 2.5:1?

OK I'm vented. I still sent in this years subscription.

 

[Petzi]

Let me be the first to bitch. I use a Linhof 612. So at 2:1 this means I'm still homeless? What autocrat came up with 2.5:1?

You belong to medium format. What makes you think your camera is panoramic?

 

[Thomassauerwein]

So if I get a new lense does that mean I Xpand?

 

[Ole]

Let me be the first to bitch. I use a Linhof 612. So at 2:1 this means I'm still homeless? What autocrat came up with 2.5:1?

OK I'm vented. I still sent in this years subscription.

It must be designed to avoid people like me - who uses a 35W back on a Bronica ETRS: 24x54mm negative size = 2.25:1.

Almost made it.

But I'll get my own back by taping half a roll of 120 FP4+ in my 30x40cm camera and get a 6x40cm panorama!

 

[anFyJ]

Almost made it.

Me too, Horizon 202, 24x58 mm => 2.41:1.

-t

 

[claytume]

Let me be the first to bitch. I use a Linhof 612. So at 2:1 this means I'm still homeless? What autocrat came up with 2.5:1?

For me aspect ratio has a lot to do with where you started. If you started with 6x6 then even 6x9 or 35mm can look panoramic to your eyes. I started at the other end doing 8:1 panoramics with Cirkut cameras. Coming from that extreme 6x17 doesn't look very panoramic to me.

When I shoot 617 I always crop a bit off the top to stretch the format a bit, I like a 4:1 minimum.

Clayton

 

[Ole]

Clayton, the horizon 'round here is never that flat.

Of the 100+ shots I've made with the 35W back, more than half were vertical...

 

[david b]

Okay, enough about your cameras.

Let's talk about the xpan.

(just kidding.) (not really.)

 

[Thomassauerwein]

Clay, Ole, The camera has its own feel to it. Yes as a pano it does not add up. But as a hand held street walking fast handling camera it is remarkable! Pop in film set exposure and go. The larger cameras, Sure they are great, I have a pano back for my LF (well 4x5) also but it is nice to run and gun at times and this guy makes it really easy.

 

[claytume]

Clayton, the horizon 'round here is never that flat.

Of the 100+ shots I've made with the 35W back, more than half were vertical...

Ole, it's the same here, hills everywhere and I've never done a single vertical panorama.

Clayton

 

[Stephanie Brim]

I'm kind of wanting to fashion a panoramic pinhole camera...24mmx80mm. I'd count, right?

 

[david b]

Go for it Stephanie.

 

[ben1]

What exactly is the ratio of the xpan panoramic frame?

i think its more than 2.5:1 ..??

 

[PKM-25]

Yes as a pano it does not add up.

True, until you start climbing high peaks, loading Kodachrome 25 in it, etc.

 

[kapro]

What exactly is the ratio of the xpan panoramic frame?

i think its more than 2.5:1 ..??

1:2,71

 

[sherpa]

xpan2 + 30mm + rvp 100