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The shutter is the technical sticking point for many DIY’ers – understandably really, they are complex bits of kit. Most of which take advantage of medium and large format lenses with shutters. There’s a few very clever people out there these days that are making various types of custom camera. Of course the only real option was some something custom. This didn’t rule them out for me, but did make me want to explore other options first. The disadvantage of a rotating lens is that they can cause issues if your subject is moving. Unfortunately, the Xpan is pretty much the only camera to offer these wide frames without the use of a rotating lens. Most 35mm “panoramic” cameras crop the top and bottom off a normal 36mm wide frame. As you may or may not know, there are very few cameras that take a panoramic frames on 35mm film. Of course, this is easier said than done. 3 Discovering and buying my Panomicron Oxygen.For landscapes or otherwise, the 24圆5mm frame just brings a bit of the medium format magic to a 35mm strip of film… so I thought I’d try and find another camera that would utilise 35mm film in the same way. I didn’t have a replacement for the Xpan beyond my little Minolta Riva Panorama, though actually, that felt pretty much enough for me… That being said, I did miss the resolution of the proper wide format. The Leica M4-P is essentially the same camera as the M-A, and for the way I used the T3, pretty much any point & shoot was close enough. The difference with the Leica M-A and the Contax T3 is that I rationalised their sale in the knowledge that I had other cameras that did similar jobs. I’ve sold a lot of cameras for similar reasons – the Leica M-A and Contax T3 are others that come to mind – but the Xpan is the one that really sticks in my mind.
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I looked at the photography from the likes of Cal, and just felt there was a cavernous gap between the value of the camera and the value of it to my photography. The issue was, I just felt like I wasn’t doing the camera justice. In fact, I was very happy with a few of the shots I took. There’s nothing wrong with shooting landscapes with a panoramic camera, of course. I bought it with the intention of shooting some well considered Anderson/Yeoman style images, and actually just ended up shooting landscapes. I also fell into what I called the “landscape trap” with it. The idea that it could sit on my shelf waiting to be used, and then one day me pick it up and find it not working was enough alone for me to want to part with it – especially as it had become such a valuable camera in the time I’d owned it. I could imagine myself having that purpose with the Xpan once in a while, but the fact that it is so heavily reliant on its electronics worried me. I don’t carry “big” cameras often, and when I do I am doing so with a very specific purpose in mind. I sold it, rationalising that I couldn’t justify keeping it for the very odd occasion I had a desire to shoot the format. I wasn’t shooting it much, and whilst really love the format, the camera felt a little like it was wasted on me. Its value had increased to the point that I couldn’t justify keeping it. Sometime last year I sold my Hasselblad Xpan-ii. It might not be as technically advanced as the Xpan, but the Panomicron offers me pretty much as much as I could want from such a format of camera, it’s more simple to use, and I’m in no way worried that it might break leaving me with a very expensive door stop – points for the Panomicron Oxygen, but just how good can a 3D printed camera be? I’ve recently bought myself a Panomicron Oxygen – a panoramic 35mm film camera that’s the same format as the Hasselblad Xpan, but at a fraction of the price.