Fabulous Film Fridays – October 14, 2011
Below is another image from the archives using a camera that I regret ever selling the Hasselblad Xpan. Why did I sell that cool little camera? Probably because at the time I was hungry or hurting for cash; a common cycle in the feast or famine industry of photography. Hell, food is over-rated isn’t it?
I sure hope my little Xpan went to a good home, if it’s just collecting dust (or anyone has one that’s collecting dust), I would be happy to take it and dust it off for you and post more pictures on the Fabulous Film Friday post!
©Darwin Wiggett - Xpan with Fujicolor Superia 100 print film
Darwin Wiggett 
October 14, 2011 at 4:49 AM
Beautiful! Love the wide angle view. 🙂
October 14, 2011 at 6:11 AM
I drooled over one at the camerastore last week!
October 14, 2011 at 8:04 AM
Great shot! Love the colours, and the panoramic veiw!
October 14, 2011 at 10:46 AM
Darwin, you used RF Camera, too! Now I feel embarrassed to show off my Zeiss Ikon to you. Xpan (to me TX-1)…I wanted the camera and I still keep Japanese article about the camera. I always think Fujinon is underrated. Beautiful and subtle mixture of color in the panorama frame….I love this image.
October 14, 2011 at 8:44 PM
Cool shot Darwin, but the posted image is so small that it looks kind of over-saturated, animation-ish. I recommend busting out of the 400px width constraint. 540 is good, 640 is better, and either is absolutely useless to print so… xo
October 15, 2011 at 3:30 PM
Darwin,
I have an x-pan kit with all three lenses. Let me know if you are interested.
Walt
October 17, 2011 at 11:29 AM
Beautiful image Darwin! More and more, I’m finding myself being drawn to the panoramic format. I’ve made a few panoramics by stitching a couple frames in Photoshop but I find it hard to visualize the image when I’m out in the field. I wish someone made a digital panoramic camera…
October 19, 2011 at 8:49 AM
Beautiful, Darwin. Fantastic angle of view and composition.
January 4, 2012 at 7:14 AM
I very much like your panoramic fall treescape and also appreciate the XPAN. However, I am and have been using my XPAN much too rarely and therefore would sell it if you are still searching for one.
All the best,
Florian.
January 4, 2012 at 8:29 PM
Hi Florian,
I have too many cameras already but I am tempted… I better not 😦