{"id":101,"date":"2025-02-09T20:29:46","date_gmt":"2025-02-09T07:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/petesi.me\/?p=101"},"modified":"2025-11-14T02:31:35","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T13:31:35","slug":"discovering-the-xpan-crop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/petesi.me\/index.php\/2025\/02\/09\/discovering-the-xpan-crop\/","title":{"rendered":"Discovering the XPan Crop"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I think I\u2019ve found a format that I really like: XPan ratio panoramas in black and white.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It started with trying out a secondhand lens: the Pentax 15mm f\/4. Which on an APSC camera like my Pentax K3 mark iii Monochrome is pleasingly wide. So I made my way down to the Dunedin Botanic Gardens and took this shot of the Winter Gardens there. I often take photos around there. I could never get the whole thing in frame before, but with such a wide lens I got a great shot dead on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The pitfall was that there was a lot of stuff in the shot I thought didn\u2019t really help and Lightroom\u2019s widest preset crop, 16:9, didn\u2019t really crop out enough. I wanted a standard panoramic crop ratio and I discovered the XPan ratio. XPan was a panoramic film camera developed in a joint venture between Hasselblad and Fujifilm and <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was very pleased with the result.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This made me want to start composing more of my shots using that ratio, but the trouble is my camera only shoots in 3:2. I know some Lumix cameras offer the ratio as a native option, but I\u2019ve got no plans to buy any more gear for a long time yet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It turns out one of the viewfinder grids in the K3iii, while not being bang-on the ratio, is close enough for composing an image with the crop in mind. By composing in the middle two rows, I can get some great panoramas.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The images themselves end up being 14 megapixels after cropping, so are still very usable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This last one was taken with a more conventional 35mm lens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I have a feeling I’m going to be using this crop a lot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I think I\u2019ve found a format that I really like: XPan ratio panoramas in black and white. It started with trying out a secondhand lens: the Pentax 15mm f\/4. Which on an APSC camera like my Pentax K3 mark iii Monochrome is pleasingly wide. So I made my way down to the Dunedin Botanic Gardens … Continue reading “Discovering the XPan Crop”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/petesi.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/petesi.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/petesi.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petesi.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petesi.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/petesi.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165,"href":"https:\/\/petesi.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions\/165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/petesi.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petesi.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petesi.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}