Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/11/29

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Subject: [Leica] You know you are obsessed with the XPan when...
From: henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:42:58 -0800
References: <CAF8hL-E8OdMPhbR--gDEsteV2zc5DCaUG+BtTJQ1y3EKhOk8ew@mail.gmail.com> <20111128173719.2b2a06dd@linux-tjpg.site>

Good stuff for your panoramic needs and/or desires:

http://www.roundshot.ch/xml_1/internet/de/application/f469.cfm

I have one of their film cameras, and it makes Leicas and Hasselblads look 
like mass produced stampings.




On 2011-11-28, at 2:37 PM, Philip Forrest wrote:

> You can always have Kodak make you a CCD. They will do them to your
> specs...
> (Wow that would be expensive!)
> 
> I've always loved panorama and the greater-than-2:3 ratio-format so my
> solution has been to just make my own cameras. I may never be able to
> afford the Linhof 617 so I just create my own solutions. But they are
> still film, alas.
> 
> Phil Forrest
> 
> 
> On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 12:51:08 -0800
> Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com> wrote:
> 
>> You know you are obsessed with the XPan when you dream how to create
>> a faux XPan digital.
>> 
>> I dreamed that someone created a clever mechanism to slide another
>> sensor down on demand and capture the XPan's pano on 2 sensors. I
>> woke up when I tried to chase after the inventor to find out how it's
>> done and that I really want one.
>> 
>> I really want one :-(
>> 
> 
> 
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Henning Wulff
henningw at archiphoto.com






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