Xpan experience ? scanning panoramic ?
Gareth
experiences with this camera ? Anybody found a 35m scanner that can
accommodate the panoramic frame size ?
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Kar Yan Mak
>experiences with this camera ? Anybody found a 35m scanner that can
>accommodate the panoramic frame size ?
>
Hmm, try to look at this third party scanner software first, it is compatible
with a couple of medium-high grade scanners...
http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html
I have a HP PhotoSmart scanner and the incorporated software does not let me
scan panoramics. But thanks to VueScan it helped me get the most out it.
Sincerely yours,
Kar Yan Mak
http://www.kyphoto.com
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Jonathan Sachs
<sgin...@venus.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
>The Xpan is perhaps a MF camera. Anyhow, anyone like to share their
>experiences with this camera ? Anybody found a 35m scanner that can
>accommodate the panoramic frame size ?
I use the XPan as a travel camera and find it both very convenient to
carry (compared to other MF alternatives) and quick and easy to use.
The image quality is excellent. For more info on using the XPan for
landscape photography, see http://www.luminous-landscape.com
I scan transparencies using an Imacon FlexTight Photo scanner for
which I had a custom film holder made up to match the frame size
(24x68mm). This works incredibly well, but is very expensive (see
http://www.imacon-usa.com for more info on the FlexTight). You could
probably also scan the film on a flatbed scanner with moderate
success.
Jonathan Sachs
Michael Creem
scan panoramic images up to five 35mm frame wide. It works well. I do not
have an xpan but do scan my Horizon 202 negs and slides with it. It is the
only reasonably priced scanner that I could find that will do panoramics.
Michael Creem
Jonathan Sachs wrote in message ...
Ralf R. Radermacher
> The current model Photosmart scanner, S20, 2400 dpi,has software that will
> scan panoramic images up to five 35mm frame wide. It works well. I do not
> have an xpan but do scan my Horizon 202 negs and slides with it. It is the
> only reasonably priced scanner that I could find that will do panoramics.
...and they can do this for the simple reason that the Photosmart
accepts neg stripes without some kind of holder with little windows for
the individual shots.
So, at least in theory, the current Nikon 35 mm scanners (LS-30 and
LS-2000) should also be able to do the trick, provided someone could be
bothered to develop a piece of software to support this feature.
Cheers,
Ralf
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Lih Family
unpleasant to use for people using SLR, especially if used to Hasselblad's 3X
prism.
2. Like many 35mm interchangible RF, the TTL metering and the autoexposure are
very impotent compared to SLR. For example, with ISO 100, the shutter speed can
only go as slow as 2sec regardless the lighting and aperture, though the spec
has 8sec max. That means you can't count on it for any indoors use or night
scene. It'd take to completely redesign the lens-body linkage to fix the
problem.
3. The 90mm lens's DOF is strangely small. The widest apersure in the DOF scale
is f11. With RF, there're lots of chance that the scale focusing and the
countable DOF scale are desired, but it's impossible with the 90mm lens. Even
with RF focusing, the much smaller RF magnification and the low DOF makes it
very inconvenient for a young guy like me.
4. I found it needs a lot of practice to learn the 24mm x 65mm
format. While it is expected to have wider field coverage in the 65mm
dimension, I usually felt that I actually lost lots of coverage in the 24mm
dimension.
5. It's really light and portable. This is an excellent traveler's camera if
the above issues does not matter.
Paul2earth
any MF capable film scanner will work.
Paul Taylor
Big World Photography
Mercer Island, WA