It is probably easiest if I just come out and say it like this: The XPAN will forever hold a special place in my heart.
It's been two years since I've owned it, and roughly 200...
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18 October, 2023
A Few Frames Going Horizont-al
My daughter recently brought my old KMZ Horizont panoramic camera out of storage, so I decided to give it a whirl. While it’s meant mainly for stately panoramas, I’v...
I’ve been using medium format film cameras for over thirty years – initially a (too brief) period with a Rolleiflex in the early 90s and since 2002 a Mamiya 6MF which I still en...
1 November, 2022
5 Frames with a Bronica ETRS: Small Town Panoramas – By Lee Hiers
My brother-in-law recently gifted me a Bronica ETRS that he had received as a gift from his step-father. While his step-father had the camera, he had let the grandkids play wit...
30 November, 2020
5 frames with Pentax MZ-3, Voigtlander 20mm in Panorama Mode with pushed Tri-X – By Aivaras
I’d like to get back to topic of shooting wide aspect ratio on 35mm film with crop mode. Pentax MZ-3 and some other MZ series models have panorama mode activated by switch. This...
20 October, 2020
Canon AE-1 Review – The Hater’s Guide – By Rich Stroffolino
It is perhaps underappreciated that because new 35mm cameras aren’t being made (or at least not produced in volume), we have changed how we evaluate these cameras as a community...
First of all – they made me do it!
After reading recent Rob Jamieson and Hamish Gill posts about panoramic function of Pentax MZ series bodies, I remembered what I have to hand...
It’s April 9th 2020; 03.08am. I’m sitting in a small hallway under the stairs leading down to our basement. Here I have a computer set up with my old Nikon 400...