I’ve said before that I own a wonderful Hasslebald X Pan panoramic film camera, but it seldom gets an outing. Though I have to say I am warming slowly but surely up to using it again – but definitely going down the route of getting someone else to do all the processing and scanning
I still find myself drawn, when using my full frame (35mm) digital camera to thinking that some scenes suit the long letter box of an X Pan dimensioned shot. When I do, I always crop down, I’ve never quite got to grips with stitching shots for some reason.
Anyway, before I waffle on too much, here’s a couple of my latest panoramic landscape photographs.
Thanks for the post. I really like the top image, the sea and the shadows. For me, it’s intriguing to think about using film again. The thought, however, of trying to find someone to do the processing and also the expense, seems to deter me. I’ve found stitching to be fairly easy in LR or Photoshop, though I don’t do many panoramas. Cheers.
Thanks for your comments – I guess the challenge of using film (or going to back to it) is the whole cost of time and the cost of film. I’m lucky enough to still have the film and the processing tools, I just lack the time to process and scan the film – which then is another cost as you’ve alluded to, if you get someone else to do it for you. On stitching, I should just try it again – I’ve got a tilt shift lens now, so I could utilise the shift in the lens to help create panoramas.