Pretending to be an XPan

[P C Headland]

I took a walk round the south cost a few weeks ago during the last of the year's long-weekends. I took an extra day to make it an extra long long-weekend which worked out well as that was the best day weather wise.

I grabbed a a couple of cameras, one of which was the Fujica G690. I used the 100mm liens this time and loaded the camera first with Delta 100. I thought I'd try and mentally frame some XPan format (65:24) shots too - I like the format, but I'm not so keen as to drop a substantial amount of money on an XPan itself. The Fujica when cropped to the same ratio would yield a bigger negative anyway. The plan was, all going well, to shoot a similar roll a following weekend, but using the 65mm lens.

I've not really tried much Delta 100, but given the results I got from this roll, I think I'm going to have to try more. It looks really great developed in PC-TEA - great tones, sharp and little grain. The skies had lovely whispy clouds to add a bit of interest.

Here's some from the roll of Delta, a couple of "pairs" in their native then XP formats. The trees are native "Cabbage Trees", though they're not really trees, they are lilies. They certainly look like trees...

Cabbage Tree and Flax Stems

Crashing Waves

[Julio1fer]

Interesting idea, and with the 65 mm lens you should be close to your goal. Maybe a yellow filter next time, to enhance the clouds in that beautiful landscape.

Grain in the sky is visible, but not bad. One would expect hardly visible grain from a T-grain film in such large negatives, but then I have never tried Delta 100.

[melek]

Whenever I hear about the XPan, I shed a little tear. Sold mine around 2009 or so. One of five cameras that I regret selling.