So quiet! My Book with mostly XPan photos!

[didjiman]

No one shoots panoramic any more? :-( Here's a shot from the Salgado exhibit in Berkeley we went to a couple months ago:

Taken with the 50 Summicron R so you see the vignetting on the edges and it's not a full XPan size, but hey, how else do you shoot at F2 with a XPan 🙂 ?

And I (blurb-) published my first book! ~35 photos and all but 2 (and the covers) are XPan images, interleaved with calligraphy! See my sig for details.

The Xpan images are great. Since a lot of them are spread out in two pages, it gives me new ways of seeing them as well. Especially the ones taken with the wide angle 30 or 45 and have a diagonal running into the distance, often either page can stand out by itself as a single image.

 

[Tuolumne]

I shoot panoramic. But these days its mostly using PTgui and stitching.

/T

 

[Al Kaplan]

I just use the 15mm Heliar and crop on occasion.

 

[didjiman]

I just use the 15mm Heliar and crop on occasion.

I had the 15mm Heliar for about a year, but just could get used to it, although I love the XPan 30. I think when I see ultra wide angle, I see wide pano as well.

Of course I think the Mamiya 7 43 is a bit not wide enough. A 38 would have been perfect but the 43 is just so perfect everything else.

 

[Efra1]

Hi, congratulations for your work, the book look great.

I have one question, how can you use a Leica R in a xPan??

Thanks

 

[didjiman]

Hi, congratulations for your work, the book look great.

I have one question, how can you use a Leica R in a xPan??

Thanks

Search my earlier thread on this forum. I have a Summicron R rangefinder coupled to the XPan.

I tried to do the same with a PC Distagon, but it wouldn't have worked :-(

 

[sjw617]

I notice in the 2 panoramic pictures shown from your book that the photos show duplicate parts at the center of the book. You can see the red backpack on both pages and the fence on the other has a duplication.
Is that the best blurb could do for you?

Steve

 

[smilianta]

So....maybe I'm in the wrong thread to ask this but how do you get a RF coupled Summicron R lens or even the Heliar 15mm on the XPan? Is there a specific place to buy the adaptors?

 

[sepiareverb]

Just started working with the 30mm for the XPAN, much better for how I see than the 45. Ran two rolls of XPAN HP5 yesterday, and really like what I'm getting. Now if this damn rain would stop I'll be back out there.

I like that second panorama in the preview, great bounce of color across the page. I'm guessing the doubling of tat elbow is from the previewing software?

 

[didjiman]

I notice in the 2 panoramic pictures shown from your book that the photos show duplicate parts at the center of the book. You can see the red backpack on both pages and the fence on the other has a duplication.
Is that the best blurb could do for you?

Steve

It's on purpose. Due to the gutter where part of the pages become effectively not usable, I have to duplicate portions on both sides.

This is due to the gluing process blurb uses. If they use a traditional stitching method, it wouldn't be as bad, but that is not feasible for a mass market DIY site like blurb.

// richard

 

[didjiman]

I like that second panorama in the preview, great bounce of color across the page. I'm guessing the doubling of tat elbow is from the previewing software?

See the response above.

 

[scott kirkpatrick]

no one shoots panoramas anymore?

no one shoots panoramas anymore?

Xpans still live. The format works if you let it tell a story working across the wide frame:

scott