Xpanners Unite!

Xpanners Unite!

  • Yes! Finally DEAD!

    Votes: 4 3.3%

  • No, but the honeymoon is over and excitement is dead.

    Votes: 16 13.2%

  • No, and the discontinued camera is seeing a resurgence of popularity.

    Votes: 50 41.3%

  • No! What planet are you on, anyway?

    Votes: 51 42.1%
  • Total voters
    121
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xpandebt@9%

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What's the general consensus about Photo.net around here? I wonder because they have graciously provided for an XPan forum. However, the forum is not so popular. Even on here the conversations go for days and weeks without input.

What's up? Where are all my XPanners? A year ago this forum was lively! Now it's dead man walking.

http://photo.net/bboard/q-and-a?topic_id=1548&category=Hasselblad+Xpan+and+Panoramic

I've been posting photos, now that I've gotten them developed and digitized, but I feel like I'm one of the last Dodo's around here. And I'm the young amateur who wants to change the world using my camera! I want to see more discussion and photos (especially photos)! Aside from a few scattered galleries when I do an online search, I don't find much parallel excitement about this format and equipment anymore. The Photo.net forum is DOA. As far as I know there's no younger, better model out. Is the honeymoon over about the XPan? WHAT'S UP? I'm still excited, even if the film developing and scanning burns a hole in my wallet (I'm poor, so what's a little less money anyway)? Is this becoming a cult classic- or worse, just a cult? My panoramic vision (sounds like a super power) doesn't quit when the popularity goes away. But I would like to see at least a dull humm of enthusiasm!

XPANNERS, UNITE!

(Optimus Prime would be proud if you heed my call!)
 
I love my xpan. I choose to use it for all types of subjects including documentary. It's not just for panoramic landscapes! I have just got back from a trip and have got alot of scanning time ahead of me but will be sure to post some images soon.
 
Welcome to the world of panoramic photography. It is a rather lonely field to be in. I find photomicrography (through a compound microscope) has a greater number of practitioners and that number is less than astrophotographers.
 
I love shooting with the XPan but I only really use the 30mm lens. This setup is WAY to expensive for me to buy so I have to settle for occasionally renting it. If I owned a system I'd be much more active in the pano community.
 
BTW, the "Xpan" format predates the Xpan. It is not new or original. There seem to be no "replacement" on the Horizont. (pun intended.)
 
A lot of Xpan (and TX-1!) photos on my Fuji Rangefinder Pages website. Link to my page there below, but hit Home when you get there and browse around. So many Xpan shots that honestly some Fuji RF diehards email me occasionally and complain! But I think the Fuji TX-1 (....er...I mean Xpan) desires to be there as much as the other Fuji RF images....
 
I'm still using my X-pan 1, 45mm and 90mm lenses - it's a great format but I try not to overuse it. A few X-pan pics on my site, take a look
 
I'm using my Xpans in every current project. As long as they make film i'll be shooting panos alongside my Leica M's and 120 RFs.
 
Range Loser said:
Hi, I have owned a Fuji TX1 since 1998, when a friend brought one back for me from Japan. I love it and have used it a lot with the 45mm lens.

Take a look at my website. www.andrewmidgleyphotography.com
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Gorgeous TX-1 images Andrew and I really like your website. Wish I could find your book on Roman Britain somewhere here in the states (Amazon does not seem to carry it). I've always been intrigued by the history and places since reading about how Barry Thornton would sometimes explore such areas.
 
Hi rich815, thanks for the kind words. "Exploring Roman Britain" is available on Amazon.com. Here's the ISBN ISBN-10: 1845372417
ISBN-13: 978-1845372415.
Cheers, Andy.
 
I'd like someone to make some alternative focal lengths in the XPAN mount. I think a lens halfway between the 30mm and 45mm would be useful. That would be about 38mm. I have a hunch it could be made, with advanced design methods, to cover well enough so as not to need a center filter. Or if not, maybe to hold down the light falloff to the point where you don't need the filter with black & white.
 
Still saving up for my 30mm, and I'm shooting the XPAN2, with the 45 mostly, every once in a while. I go through a burst of XPAN rolls, then drift away for a while. A wonderful camera.
 
Rob-F said:
I'd like someone to make some alternative focal lengths in the XPAN mount. I think a lens halfway between the 30mm and 45mm would be useful. That would be about 38mm. I have a hunch it could be made, with advanced design methods, to cover well enough so as not to need a center filter. Or if not, maybe to hold down the light falloff to the point where you don't need the filter with black & white.
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Well, to eliminate mechanical vignetting would make the lens extremely expensive if it were f/4, or it would have to be very slow - f/11. As far as natural vignetting due to the cosine 4th law, there is not much you can do. BTW, the original lenses were made using advanced design methods.
 
xpandebt@9% said:
What's the general consensus about Photo.net around here? I wonder because they have graciously provided for an XPan forum. However, the forum is not so popular. Even on here the conversations go for days and weeks without input.

What's up? Where are all my XPanners? A year ago this forum was lively! Now it's dead man walking.

http://photo.net/bboard/q-and-a?topic_id=1548&category=Hasselblad+Xpan+and+Panoramic

I've been posting photos, now that I've gotten them developed and digitized, but I feel like I'm one of the last Dodo's around here. And I'm the young amateur who wants to change the world using my camera! I want to see more discussion and photos (especially photos)! Aside from a few scattered galleries when I do an online search, I don't find much parallel excitement about this format and equipment anymore. The Photo.net forum is DOA. As far as I know there's no younger, better model out. Is the honeymoon over about the XPan? WHAT'S UP? I'm still excited, even if the film developing and scanning burns a hole in my wallet (I'm poor, so what's a little less money anyway)? Is this becoming a cult classic- or worse, just a cult? My panoramic vision (sounds like a super power) doesn't quit when the popularity goes away. But I would like to see at least a dull humm of enthusiasm!

XPANNERS, UNITE!

(Optimus Prime would be proud if you heed my call!)
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If you are using an Xpan maybe put some into your gallery for starters? That would ensure others see the shots and could be an impetus to stimulate other owners to post and discuss images with the Xpan
 
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