london xpan

[le gravy noire]

one from the v series

[Andy M]

Brilliant!

[J111]

le gravy noire said:

Such a shame that the upstand dominates the centre of the frame. I love the rest of them, how do you find the XPan to use ?

[le gravy noire]

J111 said:

le gravy noire said:

Such a shame that the upstand dominates the centre of the frame. I love the rest of them, how do you find the XPan to use ?

Hi,

I quite like the post to add a bit of foreground interest but thats subjective init! Ive got a couple of other variations, Ill scan them in a bit and show you. I love the xpan, and I think i am getting my head around some of the compositional issues. Now its time to understand the technical ones! Its a great camera for street photos, very quiet and inobtrusive. I think mine is broken already though as all the photos are wonky when levelled with a spirit bubble on the hotshoe. It seems that the viewfinder is at a jaunty angle!



Matt

[badbeachbuggy]

le gravy noire said:

I think mine is broken already though as all the photos are wonky when levelled with a spirit bubble on the hotshoe. It seems that the viewfinder is at a jaunty angle!



Matt

Maybe I should get one then all my shots will be straight

[le gravy noire]

[andybuk99]

lovely cameras those!

[Andy M]

Hope you don't mind me posting larger versions, but I'm loving:



and this one which reminds me of The Italian Job, but for the fugly X5:

[le gravy noire]

thanks old bean!

[badbeachbuggy]

Oooh, I like the second batch, very cool

[GetCarter]

Good stuff. B&W works well IMHO

[graham@reading]

Great contrast and sharpness

[EmmaP]

Love the shots Matt. I've wanted one of these cameras for years. Have you seen the work of Horst Hamann? He's produced a book New York Vertical. They are absolutely wonderful images.

www.horsthamann.com

[le gravy noire]

Those are great shots emma, thanks for the link (and the comment)!

[le gravy noire]

Incidentally,

the image quality from the 503cw is amazing, this was shot on provia 100 with a 150mm prime, handheld:

www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=278511426&size=o

My canon was never that sharp and the colours were never that good even after pissing about in photoshop!

[_dobbo_]

Very nice Matt.

[fergusd]

like this a lot



Fd

[Parrot of Doom]

I'm wondering what the image quality would be like if you were to shoot 2 or 3 images using that xpan, and then stitch them together with Autostitch.exe?

www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autostitch.html

Because trust me, Autostitch is fantabulous.

[J111]

le gravy noire said:

I quite like the post to add a bit of foreground interest but thats subjective init!

Absolutely I think I'd personally like to see either the whole post or not at all.

le gravy noire said:

I love the xpan, and I think i am getting my head around some of the compositional issues. Now its time to understand the technical ones! Its a great camera for street photos, very quiet and inobtrusive.

It's a camera I'd love to try. I'm obsessed with my Voigtlander for its urban 'invisibility'.

le gravy noire said:

I think mine is broken already though as all the photos are wonky when levelled with a spirit bubble on the hotshoe. It seems that the viewfinder is at a jaunty angle!

Oops !

I like this one a lot

[le gravy noire]

Jagshemash,

xpan is rapidly becoming my favourite camera ever. 90mm lens is en route which should be great and open up some compositional options. Glad you like the shot. I might buy a polaroid camera this weekend but thats a different kettle of ballgames...

Matt