The Camera and Lenses that I use in 65:24 aspect ratio Lumix S9: geni.us/eVTH Sigma 24mm f/3.5: geni.us/BxrL2Ut Lumix S 50mm f/1.8: geni.us/c4tReOa Lumix S 20-60mm f/3.5-f/5.6: geni.us/lirtX APS-C L Mount Lenses Sigma 56mm f/1.4: geni.us/16906b Sigma 18-50 f/2.8 geni.us/rMBK
Your video really caught my attention and interest. I’ve seen pictures like you took but I didn’t knew about this format and I find them quite beautiful. I was intrigued about the lenses you used, I believe it was the 24mm, right? You can take them with any focal length? Equally primes and zoom’s? Thanks and have a great Christmas.
Thanks that you find my experiences of interest. Yes in this case I have used the Sigma 24mm (f/3.5), also used the Lumix 20-60mm which worked fine and now will be shooting on Lumix 50mm and Lumix 85mm in the coming months and will create the episodes once I have enough meat on the bones, so to speak
I got a used GFX 50R from my local photography shop around 2020 ish. One of the reasons was because I was interested in xpan, but the risk of something going wrong and the difficulty of getting them repaired, and the inconvenience of film (vs digital) put me off. So I sought out a digital equivalent and landed at the 50R. I have a selection of cameras, and I find the 50R to be the one I enjoy the most. I don’t really under stand why this is though.
Sigma Quattro series cameras can shoot using the Hasselblad-style 21:9 widescreen ratio. My SD Quattro coupled with the 18-35 Art is perfect for shooting those super wide shots. Just stellar.
I have a mini-obsession with the XPan format, mainly that aspect ratio. This is the first time I've heard of the term "XPanning" - I will steal this and start using it too! 😅 I'll follow you on Threads as well, thanks for the video. Greetings from London :)
Yeah I often invent new English words, benefit of being a non-native speaker or simply coming up with gibberish 😂 which camera do you use? Thanks for following on Threads, easier to communicate.
@PaulTakesPhotos thanks for the follow as well ☺️ I'm mainly a hobbyist and shoot with a Z6, Z fc, and an Olympus Pen E-P7. On mobile I dabble with the XP4N app.
Hi Paul, thank you for this episode - quite inspiring, I'm shooting with a Google Pixel 8 Pro and using snapseed in camera for post processing with intention to share on social media. If I shoot ultra wide (11mm equivalent focal range) and crop to just a smidge under half 4:3rds aspect ratio I get that beautiful xpan aspect ratio.
This was new to me, I’ve heard of X-Pan cameras before with swivelling lenses, but never fully appreciated the 2.7x aspect ratio. Pity my Sony camera doesn’t provide it as a shooting mode.
I had a X-Pan II when it come out so many years ago, enjoyed using it, but sold it, should have kept it. Planning to scan and print some of the film from it.
Is Zf more fun than S9? By the way, name is Johnny and I'm a freelance logo designer, would you love to have a logo for your photography business and your channel to have a brand image your audience can remember your contents from and also can be one of the merch print you can sell to your fans to buy and own and share the words about your channel too? Let me know if you interested and I would love to work with you to design these for you! :-)
I haven't shot with the ZF so I wouldn't be able to really tell you. I do know that it hasn't got the 65:24 aspect ratio. Appreciate your offer, but for now will have to take a rain check. YT is my hobby not my profession or brand :) again thanks for the offer
@@PaulTakesPhotos I see, still it will going to make your channel looks more thrilling, and audience especially the new one will feel more connected and know where you are going to with your artwork at a glance, I'm doing this as a hobby too and doing it to help me get back on track, hence if you are in quite good financial, maybe can take this unexpected opportunity to uplift your channel and also it can help me gear up too!
I can appreciate the aspect ratio - it really brings back early, majestic Kodachrome shots. The S9, however? I need a mechanical shutter and an EVF, so if I was faced with the choice? GFX. I am a slow shooter anyhow, and have been shooting long enough that even some of my old film gear was bigger and heavier. Alas, no GFX in my future, but rest assured, one day, with old 35mm lenses and a 1:1 ratio? I would be over the moon.
Thanks for sharing your experience! I now own the S9 for 3 or 4 weeks but I'll come soon with a general first impression and obviously, like usual a year or so later video. Have to admit that the GFX 50R is growing on me, so who knows :)
My 2 cents: Jeff Bridges does NOT use "xpan cameras" but simply "panoramic cameras" (widelux to be precise). There is NOT such a thing as a "xpan camera" but there is a model of panoramic camera that was called XPan (which was the Hasselblad rebrand of Fuji TX-1 and TX-2). I would not agree on the reparability of film cameras as these are usually easier to repair than the modern ones (you can still repair a 40 years old fil mcamera but try to look for spare parts for a 10-15 years old digital camera!!!). As for panoramic cameras, you can use 6x17 back for large format cameras, load 135 film on Pentax 67 or if your name is Koudelka just enjoy a specially custom-made Leica S2 that shoot panoramic mode. As for the rest, what you are doing is simply cropping from a digital sensor...you could do the same video and replace "panoramic" with "square format" and your arguments would be the same
Thanks for the lesson and feedback. Always learn something. I was looking for a digital camera with the 65:24 aspect ratio so I can enjoy shooting more horizonal panoramic shot. And as I showed in the video. In jpeg and raw the camera utilized a part of the sensor. So not it is not like the xpans or other related analog film cameras. Yep you're right
The Camera and Lenses that I use in 65:24 aspect ratio
Lumix S9: geni.us/eVTH
Sigma 24mm f/3.5: geni.us/BxrL2Ut
Lumix S 50mm f/1.8: geni.us/c4tReOa
Lumix S 20-60mm f/3.5-f/5.6: geni.us/lirtX
APS-C L Mount Lenses
Sigma 56mm f/1.4: geni.us/16906b
Sigma 18-50 f/2.8 geni.us/rMBK
I shot with the LUMIX S5 II, and this X-Pan ratio feature is fantastic for landscape and environmental shots. I need to use this feature more.
Hi, one question sony a7c II i think have 2:1 its the same yo talk about? Thanks Great video
Your video really caught my attention and interest. I’ve seen pictures like you took but I didn’t knew about this format and I find them quite beautiful. I was intrigued about the lenses you used, I believe it was the 24mm, right? You can take them with any focal length? Equally primes and zoom’s? Thanks and have a great Christmas.
Thanks that you find my experiences of interest. Yes in this case I have used the Sigma 24mm (f/3.5), also used the Lumix 20-60mm which worked fine and now will be shooting on Lumix 50mm and Lumix 85mm in the coming months and will create the episodes once I have enough meat on the bones, so to speak
I got a used GFX 50R from my local photography shop around 2020 ish. One of the reasons was because I was interested in xpan, but the risk of something going wrong and the difficulty of getting them repaired, and the inconvenience of film (vs digital) put me off. So I sought out a digital equivalent and landed at the 50R.
I have a selection of cameras, and I find the 50R to be the one I enjoy the most. I don’t really under stand why this is though.
I don't understand why a 22mm is "read" as a 27? Does this happen only in the 65:24 crop mode?
Sigma Quattro series cameras can shoot using the Hasselblad-style 21:9 widescreen ratio. My SD Quattro coupled with the 18-35 Art is perfect for shooting those super wide shots. Just stellar.
Same for the Sigma FP and FP L can shots in 21:9 widescreen ratio
I have a mini-obsession with the XPan format, mainly that aspect ratio. This is the first time I've heard of the term "XPanning" - I will steal this and start using it too! 😅 I'll follow you on Threads as well, thanks for the video. Greetings from London :)
Yeah I often invent new English words, benefit of being a non-native speaker or simply coming up with gibberish 😂 which camera do you use? Thanks for following on Threads, easier to communicate.
@PaulTakesPhotos thanks for the follow as well ☺️ I'm mainly a hobbyist and shoot with a Z6, Z fc, and an Olympus Pen E-P7. On mobile I dabble with the XP4N app.
Hi Paul, thank you for this episode - quite inspiring, I'm shooting with a Google Pixel 8 Pro and using snapseed in camera for post processing with intention to share on social media. If I shoot ultra wide (11mm equivalent focal range) and crop to just a smidge under half 4:3rds aspect ratio I get that beautiful xpan aspect ratio.
Not quite the same as an Xpan and the Xpan lenses, but pretty damned close.
Great video Paul
This was new to me, I’ve heard of X-Pan cameras before with swivelling lenses, but never fully appreciated the 2.7x aspect ratio. Pity my Sony camera doesn’t provide it as a shooting mode.
The aspect ratio is only available on a few digital cameras. Maybe my episode will convince Sony to include it in future cameras and phones
I’ll never understand why Panasonic and Fujifilm refuse to place the 65:24 aspect ratio on other M43 and X Series cameras.
The SL2 has the 65:24 ratio?
I had a X-Pan II when it come out so many years ago, enjoyed using it, but sold it, should have kept it. Planning to scan and print some of the film from it.
Thank you for sharing. I am a big fan of this ratio.
Is Zf more fun than S9? By the way, name is Johnny and I'm a freelance logo designer, would you love to have a logo for your photography business and your channel to have a brand image your audience can remember your contents from and also can be one of the merch print you can sell to your fans to buy and own and share the words about your channel too? Let me know if you interested and I would love to work with you to design these for you! :-)
I haven't shot with the ZF so I wouldn't be able to really tell you. I do know that it hasn't got the 65:24 aspect ratio. Appreciate your offer, but for now will have to take a rain check. YT is my hobby not my profession or brand :) again thanks for the offer
@@PaulTakesPhotos I see, still it will going to make your channel looks more thrilling, and audience especially the new one will feel more connected and know where you are going to with your artwork at a glance, I'm doing this as a hobby too and doing it to help me get back on track, hence if you are in quite good financial, maybe can take this unexpected opportunity to uplift your channel and also it can help me gear up too!
I can appreciate the aspect ratio - it really brings back early, majestic Kodachrome shots.
The S9, however?
I need a mechanical shutter and an EVF, so if I was faced with the choice?
GFX. I am a slow shooter anyhow, and have been shooting long enough that even some of my old film gear was bigger and heavier.
Alas, no GFX in my future, but rest assured, one day, with old 35mm lenses and a 1:1 ratio? I would be over the moon.
Thanks for sharing your experience! I now own the S9 for 3 or 4 weeks but I'll come soon with a general first impression and obviously, like usual a year or so later video.
Have to admit that the GFX 50R is growing on me, so who knows :)
My 2 cents:
Jeff Bridges does NOT use "xpan cameras" but simply "panoramic cameras" (widelux to be precise). There is NOT such a thing as a "xpan camera" but there is a model of panoramic camera that was called XPan (which was the Hasselblad rebrand of Fuji TX-1 and TX-2).
I would not agree on the reparability of film cameras as these are usually easier to repair than the modern ones (you can still repair a 40 years old fil mcamera but try to look for spare parts for a 10-15 years old digital camera!!!).
As for panoramic cameras, you can use 6x17 back for large format cameras, load 135 film on Pentax 67 or if your name is Koudelka just enjoy a specially custom-made Leica S2 that shoot panoramic mode.
As for the rest, what you are doing is simply cropping from a digital sensor...you could do the same video and replace "panoramic" with "square format" and your arguments would be the same
Thanks for the lesson and feedback. Always learn something. I was looking for a digital camera with the 65:24 aspect ratio so I can enjoy shooting more horizonal panoramic shot. And as I showed in the video. In jpeg and raw the camera utilized a part of the sensor. So not it is not like the xpans or other related analog film cameras. Yep you're right