Only if you can handle the MF negatives. I would personnal think about an
Xpan if I wanted the long 35mm format because I don't have any way to scan
or work with 6x7 negatives. Yea, yea, I could get the scanned at a service
bureau, but that gets expensive.
Your point is well taken though. The XPan is, in fact, a medium format
camera that uses 35mm film to capture the middle stripe of a MF-sized image
circle. It is a specialilzed tool and excels at what it does.
It takes some neat verticals though.
Skip
From: Clendon Gibson <bsandyman@xxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Xpan Vs. MF Kit was [OM] Rangefinders vs. SLR's
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 13:33:51 -0700 (PDT)
When i heard about the xpan i went to look about it.
It seems like for the money you can get a decent MF
kit. With the MF kit you could 'learn' to take the
panaramoc that the xpan is taking by cropping
appropriatly. Possibly you could get a focus screen
with 35 mm lines so you could compose properly.
It seemed to me that an MF kit was a better deal then
an xpan because you can do everything an xpan can do
and more.
Do others disagree?
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