Since I'm unlikely to ever get any kind of Xpan camera, I thought it might be interesting to post some wide crops from two cheap digicams and a phone (Fuijfilm J20, JX500 and Nokia Lumia 520) taken over the last few years. The JX500 has a scratched lens but nice colours and I think it does OK.Some of these I've posted before, some I haven't.
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>>4495244That's it for now. Thanks for looking (and maybe post some of your own).
>>44952452:1 really is the best aspect ratio but anything noticably wide and letterboxed is just kino
>>4495246I agree. Lately I've been composing for it more and more.
No reason for these to be so wide thoughX-Pan is a format only fit for very specific use cases Otherwise it just looks like you cropped for no particular reason
I stitched this from 3 photos. Otherwise, I usually don't go for the wide/XPAN ratios.
I should try 2:1 more often.
Continuing the theme of the Poor man's Xpan I taped the LCD screen of an old Pentax Optio LS1000 to give an Xpan-like view, then cropped later. The 27mm lens is sharp enough in the centre but gets very soft towards the edges.
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Nokia Lumia 520.
>>4495287it's great for if you ever print a book. You can have it go across two pages of a square zine/book
>>4496590Nice looking colours.
>>4496591thanks anon! Full moon nights are always so vivid. Lots of good deep greens under the right conditions.
Another stitch from 3 photos.
>>4498318This is something I'm going to have to try.
>>4498342It's surprisingly fun, and you can capture a large amount of detail (as long as it's a still subject). Be sure to bring a tripod, though. Don't be like me and try to balance a 135mm prime in the wind with no built-in stabilizer.
Picked up a 2014 Nokia Lumia 930 with its 20mp camera (and a cracked screen, broken sim port and non-functioning flash) for £5. Fun for some larger resolution 'Xpan' photos.
Nokia Lumia 930.
Stitched years ago with Hugin (I think) from bunch 2015 AW100 handheld snaps. Camera also has a builtin panorama mode with artifacts galore handheld.I used to post location tagged stuff to Panoramio before before Google devoured it. (68°16'21.0"N 28°11'46.4"E, altitude 632m)
>>4500620As I posted previously, this is something to try (I haven't finished with these old Windows Phones yet). The only 'real' camera I've owned that had a panorama mode was my first digital camera – a Canon Powershot A70. I remember it being pretty good, but I never really used it.
