"Hi there, Welcome to my little tribute page to what I consider the best camera in the world, the Hasselblad Xpan. This page has been up for quite a few years now, the original version of this page got a lot of hits until it disappeared sometime in 2005, version two soon followed and stayed strong for a couple of years and now in 2009 we are up to version three. I am still not a writer or reviewer or web designer, I’m barely even a photographer, nor am I getting cheques from Hasselblad (yet!) I just want to tell everyone about my love affair with this unique and fantastic camera. The Xpan was introduced by Hasselblad at Photokina, in Germany in 1998, I found out about it sometime in 1999 and I wanted to own one from that moment on. In early 2004 I finally got the funds and the balls to buy one, so I did it and I have never regretted it. It came with the standard 45mm lens and belonged to a camera collector who had only put a couple of films through it, a little while later I bought...
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- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
from Bookmarklet
comparison image caption: "The 45 mm is a 45 mm in the regular 24 x 36 mm mode but in the panoramic 24 x 65 mm mode it has the equivalent focal length of a 24 mm lens, the 90 mm lens becomes a 50 mm lens and the 30 mm becomes a 17 mm lens. "
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML