Wouldn't it be nice if the new x-pro 1 accepted xpan lenses

[kehng]

Probably just wishful thinking as the crop ratio and lens speed wouldn't make sense but they are both made by fuji right?

 

[didjiman]

Shouldn't be any problem. There is already a M lens adapter and you can already buy XPan to m4/3 / NEX mount adapters.

OTOH, you would be wasting most of the image circles of the lens, so a bit of "why bother?"

Now, if they produce an XPan-D using the same mount....

 

[randomm]

Why would you want to attach a medium format lens to a small format camera? For shifts?

 

[sevo]

Nothing much to shift there, given the body and mount size. It should be possible though an adapter, but it isn't particularly desirable - the not exactly cheap XPan lenses will be rather underperforming on a APS size sensor. And I doubt Fuji will do a digital XPan one day when sensors of that size become reasonably affordable, as that probably never happens - outdated medium format sensors tend to become too expensive to compete with smaller formats and vanish rather than reappear in some lesser medium format camera.

It is more likely that we'll eventually see 16x35mm "wide format" cameras derived off FF and APS-C - the popularity of wide formats in cine production and convergence of still and video will certainly push that way. But such a thing would probably either have a FF compatible mount or its own lenses - there would be no point in using a mount for lenses with three times the coverage.

 

[Harold Gough]

This is what an X-Pan lens, with a high quality supplementary lens, can do on m4/3:

http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=87489&highlight=xpan#87489