Since I'm unlikely to ever get any kind of Xpan camera, I thought it might be interesting to post some wide crops from two cheap digicams and a phone (Fuijfilm J20, JX500 and Nokia Lumia 520) taken over the last few years. The JX500 has a scratched lens but nice colours and I think it does OK.
No reason for these to be so wide though X-Pan is a format only fit for very specific use cases Otherwise it just looks like you cropped for no particular reason
Continuing the theme of the Poor man's Xpan I taped the LCD screen of an old Pentax Optio LS1000 to give an Xpan-like view, then cropped later. The 27mm lens is sharp enough in the centre but gets very soft towards the edges.
>>4498318 This is something I'm going to have to try.
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Anonymous02/22/26(Sun)19:21:22
>>4498342 It's surprisingly fun, and you can capture a large amount of detail (as long as it's a still subject). Be sure to bring a tripod, though. Don't be like me and try to balance a 135mm prime in the wind with no built-in stabilizer.
Picked up a 2014 Nokia Lumia 930 with its 20mp camera (and a cracked screen, broken sim port and non-functioning flash) for £5. Fun for some larger resolution 'Xpan' photos.
Stitched years ago with Hugin (I think) from bunch 2015 AW100 handheld snaps. Camera also has a builtin panorama mode with artifacts galore handheld. I used to post location tagged stuff to Panoramio before before Google devoured it. (68°16'21.0"N 28°11'46.4"E, altitude 632m)
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Anonymous03/13/26(Fri)14:14:21
>>4500620 As I posted previously, this is something to try (I haven't finished with these old Windows Phones yet). The only 'real' camera I've owned that had a panorama mode was my first digital camera – a Canon Powershot A70. I remember it being pretty good, but I never really used it.
>>4495236(OP) Nice bread, OP. I've been fascinated with the format for while as well because my new phone's camera app has a built in xpan mode. Ever since, I've also been using my "real" camera for taking multi-shot panos quite a bit in the past year or two
>>4495271 >X-Pan is a format only fit for very specific use cases I personally really like the format for high alpine photos. It lets you capture a sweeping landscape without making the mountains look small. It's also nice for dramatic subject isolation if you have a plain scene
>>4495236(OP) As I've not taken any 'XPan' photos recently, I thought I would post a 16:9 image I took this morning by poking my Fujifilm Finepix J20 through a building site's fence.
>>4495236(OP) Still testing my £5 broken 20 MP Nokia Lumia 930 as an XPan-like camera. I haven't really used its raw mode yet (so there may be more to be got) but I think if you expect a quality like a cheap 35mm panoramic film camera then you'll be satisfied.
The photo is of the boring Bath bus station, part of a fairly recent development of the city centre (the old centre needed a facelift but at least it had character). The centre is now just a safe corporate facsimile of Bath's original architectural style.
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Anonymous05/16/26(Sat)15:21:11
>>4498302 >birds surrounded by sharpening artifacts >hideous noise and harpening all over wires how fucking retarded do you have to be to even save this image?
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Anonymous05/16/26(Sat)16:30:53
>>4509608 >The Nokia Lumia 520 has a tendency to over sharpen (none was added). The high contrast look was my own. I don't mind a 'rough' looking photo and I think it will print ok.