HKHoward
Howard in HK
And here is another. This one is 5 vertical pictures taken with the Panasonic GH 2 and the 100 - 300 zoom stitched together with CS 4:
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Kenya/5panwildbeestW.jpg.html
Please click on the icon in the center top of the picture to enlarge it.
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Kenya/5panwildbeestW.jpg.html
Please click on the icon in the center top of the picture to enlarge it.
gcsk76
Established
Vertical Takes
gcsk76
Established
gcsk76
Established
whitecat
Lone Range(find)er
whitecat
Lone Range(find)er
whitecat
Lone Range(find)er
ljsegil
Well-known
l.mar
Well-known
Two stitched images from a Leica M2 and 50mm M-Planar.
didjiman
Richard Man
Wow, I did not think I could show any more XPan images until my scanner returns from the shop, but I got the bright idea of using a lightbox and my digital SLR to take photos of the negatives! Good enough for the web versions! Full blog here
http://www.richardmanphoto.com/blog/?p=2999
http://www.richardmanphoto.com/blog/?p=2999
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filmtwit
Desperate but not serious
Monz
Monz
Ezzie
E. D. Russell Roberts
filmtwit
Desperate but not serious
didjiman
Richard Man
Did someone say "XPan Street Photography?" 
Lack of a good scanner is cramping my style with my XPan photos but I am persevering with a lowly flat bed scanner. The sharpness, the dynamic range, and the resolution cannot compare, but it's good enough for web pics. For now anyway. I hope Nikon repair my scanner soon. They "fixed" the problem but the unit is basically DOA when they returned it :-(
Enjoy!
http://www.richardmanphoto.com/blog/?p=3079
A few selected pictures:
Lack of a good scanner is cramping my style with my XPan photos but I am persevering with a lowly flat bed scanner. The sharpness, the dynamic range, and the resolution cannot compare, but it's good enough for web pics. For now anyway. I hope Nikon repair my scanner soon. They "fixed" the problem but the unit is basically DOA when they returned it :-(
Enjoy!
http://www.richardmanphoto.com/blog/?p=3079
A few selected pictures:
didjiman
Richard Man
As usual, a few more photos on my blog than I show here:
http://www.richardmanphoto.com/blog/?p=3098
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Nov 2nd evening, I really wanted to use the XPan as long as possible. First I put in ISO1600 Neopan film. Unfortunately, the lens are slow unlike the Leica lens (the Leica photos from the same night can be seen here). At their fastest speed of F4 and F5.6, the XPan lens are 3 stops slower than the F1.4 Leica lens, meaning that the XPan lens needs as much as 8 times the light level. Eventually I put on a flash (which I never do with the Leica), but only got at most one or two keepers from using the flash. I can try using a bigger flash next time or just use my Leica (or give up
).
This really is an experiment for me. Very few people shoot street photography / photojournalism with a Hasselblad XPan, and fewer still use a flash. I wouldn’t say the flash is a success, but only that it has potential. The panoramic frame is so wide that a successful image must either have a good main story situated in the environment or that there are multiple good supporting sub stories around the main story. It’s difficult to take good street photos even with a regular camera and using the XPan makes the difficult genre even more challenging (i.e. it takes more than a picture of someone walking down the street to make a good street photograph), but I am going to keep working on it. I hope you enjoy the effort.
Nov 2nd apparently was also Dia DeLos Meurtos, so a few people were celebrating the “Day of the Dead” as well. I sat with the Buddhists a bit, doing Za Zen, and there were quite a number of kids there, before the night ended.
http://www.richardmanphoto.com/blog/?p=3098
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Nov 2nd evening, I really wanted to use the XPan as long as possible. First I put in ISO1600 Neopan film. Unfortunately, the lens are slow unlike the Leica lens (the Leica photos from the same night can be seen here). At their fastest speed of F4 and F5.6, the XPan lens are 3 stops slower than the F1.4 Leica lens, meaning that the XPan lens needs as much as 8 times the light level. Eventually I put on a flash (which I never do with the Leica), but only got at most one or two keepers from using the flash. I can try using a bigger flash next time or just use my Leica (or give up
This really is an experiment for me. Very few people shoot street photography / photojournalism with a Hasselblad XPan, and fewer still use a flash. I wouldn’t say the flash is a success, but only that it has potential. The panoramic frame is so wide that a successful image must either have a good main story situated in the environment or that there are multiple good supporting sub stories around the main story. It’s difficult to take good street photos even with a regular camera and using the XPan makes the difficult genre even more challenging (i.e. it takes more than a picture of someone walking down the street to make a good street photograph), but I am going to keep working on it. I hope you enjoy the effort.
Nov 2nd apparently was also Dia DeLos Meurtos, so a few people were celebrating the “Day of the Dead” as well. I sat with the Buddhists a bit, doing Za Zen, and there were quite a number of kids there, before the night ended.
