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.
>>4495236Nice bread, OP. I've been fascinated with the format for while as well because my new phone's camera app has a built in xpan mode. Ever since, I've also been using my "real" camera for taking multi-shot panos quite a bit in the past year or two>>4495271>X-Pan is a format only fit for very specific use casesI personally really like the format for high alpine photos. It lets you capture a sweeping landscape without making the mountains look small. It's also nice for dramatic subject isolation if you have a plain scene
>>4501043That is a very good use-case indeed, look really good!Putting three together often works really well when the subjects match this well
I enjoy these threads when they appear.Though I usually crop to 12:5.
>>4495236As I've not taken any 'XPan' photos recently, I thought I would post a 16:9 image I took this morning by poking my Fujifilm Finepix J20 through a building site's fence.
>>4495236Still testing my £5 broken 20 MP Nokia Lumia 930 as an XPan-like camera. I haven't really used its raw mode yet (so there may be more to be got) but I think if you expect a quality like a cheap 35mm panoramic film camera then you'll be satisfied.The photo is of the boring Bath bus station, part of a fairly recent development of the city centre (the old centre needed a facelift but at least it had character). The centre is now just a safe corporate facsimile of Bath's original architectural style.
>>4498302>birds surrounded by sharpening artifacts>hideous noise and harpening all over wireshow fucking retarded do you have to be to even save this image?
>>4509608>The Nokia Lumia 520 has a tendency to over sharpen (none was added). The high contrast look was my own. I don't mind a 'rough' looking photo and I think it will print ok.
>>4509617Sorry about the green text.
>>4501043This is such a kickass set!
>>4511238Good. I like the layout as well.
>>4495236Nokia Lumia 930.Bellotts Road Cemetery.
>>4511700Thanks, anon.
>>4495236Nokia Lumia 930.
>>4495236Mr. D's – pretty much unchanged since the 1980s.Nokia Lumia 930.
>>4510234this is kinokeep doing this
>>4505966have you ever heard of the rule of thirds?
>>4501043that's eye candynice one, anon
>>4499342>>4500558I like these, tooseriously, keep 'em comingI would enjoy a whole thread of these
>>4495287maybe 2:1 is the king of aspect ratiosthe atmosphere is great, besides
>>4514640Thanks.
>>4514643Thanks.The whole thread is just my experiments in getting an XPan look from old, broke (and often cheap) digicams and phones. The Nokia Lumia 930 I'm now concentrating on has a Zeiss lens and can give DNG (Raw) files. Someone who understands editing could get a lot from these files, but even with my limited skills, I can get them looking better than their standard jpegs.I've also printed some of these photos and they look OK. I'm not someone who cares that much about the technical quality of photos (I sort of share the philosophies of Daidō Moriyama and Dmitry Markov and a number of the early pictorialists).Digicams had their moment. I wonder if cheap camera phones are next? Still plenty of good deals out there for early Android phones (and some iPhones).
