[Leica] going off the deep end, buying another film camera

[leica at screengang.com (Didier Ludwig)]

Henning
The XPan is certainly a good choice for handheld panorama photography - but 
who makes that without tripod? The XPan format is finally quite smaller than 
with 6x9 and upward. Another option between XPan and 4"x5" would be a Brooks 
or Plaubel Verwide - 6x9 format, 47mm Angulon, "compact" body, "affordable" 
price (Brooks around $1k, Plaubel a bit more, usually).
Didier




>>The Xpan works just like a slower Hexar RF. It's main downside are the 
>>slow lenses, especially the 30 which needs the center filter, and then has 
>>an effective aperture of f/9.5. The Cambos or 6x17s of course also need 
>>center filters, but on a tripod that doesn't matter so much. I usually 
>>shoot the 35 on the Cambo at f/11 and the others at f/16, and then there 
>>is the center filter factor. At effective apertures of f/22 and f/32, hand 
>>holding gets problematic.