I made my own Hasselblad XPAN!/ Lost blogs / Pushing Film

This is one of the lost blogs, shot about 2 years ago and now is finally making it to air. Here I share some of my journey making and shooting my homemade hasselblad XPAN, the people that help make this possible @louisrzurn, here www.louisrzurn... is his blog tutorial with all the steps to how you can convert a hasselblad 500cm into a panorama image talking machine!
I also share some on my failures with this set up, a photowalk with @Pushing Film and some more images I have taken with this awesome set up.

[@analogbug16]

So great to see how you got on with the back. Definitely an easy system to double exposures on. I’ll have to try out your winding technique. So great that you’re able to get that many exposures on a roll. Well worth it though for that awesome cinematic XPan ratio.

[@VivaLaFilm]

Louis R. Zurn it only took me two year to share it! 😂 Thank you so much for taking the time, guiding me and putting together that very in-depth blog post, this is definitely an affordable way to get that xpan kick and very easy to use, you are the master!

[@eduardorosas9424]

Amazing! I really love it. Keep on doing this good work!

[@VivaLaFilm]

Eduardo Rosas thanks 😊🙏🏽

[@FabrizioZago]

I hope my XPan will still work for many many years (I was lucky enough to buy one several years ago when the prices were not crazy as today), but if one day it will stop working, I also need to try something like this. Interesting channel, subscribed!

[@RodinalRodeo]

Really clever modification. Those are some really crisp images. I really should look into upgrading to medium format.

[@VivaLaFilm]

Tequila Cured Salmon Carpaccio With Vodka Foam medium format is definitely richer negs a great investment in quality

[@VivaLaFilm]

What do you shoot currently?

[@RodinalRodeo]

@@VivaLaFilm I started with the Epoca 135 and now I use the Nikon F3 as well. Not frequently though, because I'm still looking for a DE-3 prism for the F3 as I struggle with the DE-2. By the way, as a matter of curiosity, did you manage to fix your Epoca?

[@mjones410]

Love it ! 'half frame medium format', there is a flickr group for this.

[@VivaLaFilm]

Cool, thanks!

[@arunsikkimphotography6321]

Good luck

[@VivaLaFilm]

thanks

[@stelladion2895]

Loving this new edgy style to your clips! Also... can’t believe how much weight we lost 😂🤣

[@VivaLaFilm]

I’m trying to make them a bit more short and a bit more me, and yeah, I was wearing my sumo suit that day 😂

[@clairieseet]

Hi, great video! Are you able to show us how you load and set the film to the 1st frame and wind the film sesequently? I'm so excited that it worked for you!

[@caitanyaballabhadas7707]

Amazing !!!

[@VivaLaFilm]

Caitanya Ballabha das thanks 😊

[@adamw.20]

...viele Grüße aus Germany...👍👍👍

[@flipflopsLF]

I just recently bought off EBay the official Hasselblad 30x60 mask located between the body and film back. Works well. PS Used the Hasselblad mask to outline a paper mask placed on top the viewfinder screen.

[@analogbug16]

The main downside with that mask is that the back still advances full frames. Even if you have an A16 back you're cutting your potential frame count down quite a bit.

[@VivaLaFilm]

How many images you get in a 120mm roll? ... I’ll definitely look into it

[@flipflopsLF]

Viva La Film Depends but minimum 12 on the A12 back with the mask horizontally. If I rotate the bask to vertical one could get 24 if you can’t half-advance. Plus looking into the rotated prism is a pain. So I will use the mask from 1to 12 times in the roll dependent on what I want to compose. instagram.com/p/B_lQ0yJnHN9/?igshid=b5nbn2mej860

[@analogbug16]

@@flipflopsLF how would you get 24 vertically, doesn't it shoot in the middle of the frame?

[@analogbug16]

​@@flipflopsLF I think I get what you mean, you hold the back on vertically. Certainly one odd way of doing it, but as you say you can't half advance with an A12 back.

[@sophrapsune]

I have both Hasselblad 203FE and the X-Pan, but still think this is a great idea. The resulting panoramic format (56x21 mm) is not as large as the X-Pan’s (65x24 mm), giving essentially a 1.14 crop factor, but there are some big benefits to be had: 1. A lot cheaper 2. A wider variety of lenses that are faster (including some f/2) and generally cheaper. Unfortunately, with the 1.14 crop factor there is no rectilinear lens equivalent of the X-Pan 30 mm, which I guess just goes to show how special that lens is. A big advantage of the X-Pan is its compact size & mobility, which no other interchangeable lens medium format camera really matches.

[@alanma3864]

Great job!!! Love that u made a diy xpan!! Hmm wonder if I can make it with my m645!?

[@analogbug16]

Probably not since as far as I'm aware there is no way to manually wind the film any distance but what it's designed for. The Hasselblad is fairly unique in this regard that you can disconnect the film advance from the shutter cocking mechanism.

[@VivaLaFilm]

Not sure either, but you could shoot 35mm with adapters

[@alessandrosignorini9556]

@Viva La Film what's the app you're using for the negs

[@HugoPlaVentas]

Great video! thinking on trying it on a lubitel 166, any advice?

[@ivaa7777JAWA]

Nice

[@VivaLaFilm]

alik ivasiv thanks 😊

[@kockneygeeza]

Haha hi Jess 😄

[@VivaLaFilm]

Hey!!! Long time no see!

[@markwatson6757]

Sooooooo glad I subscribed - now hunting for an old back. Does anyone know where to get my 500c/m serviced in Oz?

[@VivaLaFilm]

We do at Viva La film inside Do film Lab

[@lifeonfilm7227]

Looks cool! How about the viewfinder? Did you put a mask in it as well or are you just very good at guessing? :-)

[@VivaLaFilm]

Life on Film great question actually I used some black masking tape on the top and the bottom of the ground glass

[@r.thirtyfivemm]

Do you think there is any way to do this with a Mamiya c220?

[@analogbug16]

I'm not that familiar with the c220 but is the film advance a separate action from cocking the shutter?. If it is, I think it could be possible. The trick would be finding out how far to advance the film to maximize exposures.

[@VivaLaFilm]

Probably not as the cocking mechanism in that C220 camera is the same as and linked to the mirror lockup, unlike the Hasselblad that has a film back that is separate and detachable mechanisms just for the film winding

[@r.thirtyfivemm]

@@analogbug16 yes actually you charge the shooter manually in the lense

[@r.thirtyfivemm]

@@VivaLaFilm the c220 doesnt have a mirror moving inside.. becouse its a TLR...

[@analogbug16]

@@r.thirtyfivemm Then it might be possible, the trick is knowing how far to advance between frames. Could certainly try it though. The parts I designed (available on my site listed in the description) are designed for the hasselblad but I would think they could fit in the gate of a C220 with a little modification.

[@DirekMui]

HMMMM THIS IS INTERESTING!...

[@analogbug16]

Direk Mui keep in mind you need an older non-A style back for this to work.

[@julien.2573]

@@analogbug16 Would it be impossible with a newer back ? Does the winding gears different ?

[@analogbug16]

@@julien.2573 the gears aren't different to my knowledge but there's no way to easily manually advance the film which is critical for this mod to work.

[@WesleyVerhoevePhotography]

haha yay for accidental double exposures

[@acidgrain]

Technically it's not a panorama but just a cropped 120 Photo :D But nice look anyway!

[@VivaLaFilm]

I didn't crop the images, I get 30 images of 6x2.5 on a 120mm roll ;)

[@analogbug16]

acid grain Depends on how you define panorama? I go by an image that is at least 2 times wider than it is tall this fits that description. These are not cropped after the fact, this is the format the film back takes.

[@sophrapsune]

@@violet_world9385 That’s all that the X-Pan does, though it’s format is wider (65 mm) than than V series (56 mm). What makes it “panoramic” is the final aspect ratio.

[@mariosergiobeheregaray9188]

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[@Arturo.H.M]

Pink Floyd

[@tekoppentekoppen761]

What an hipster way of just crop it in PS. :)

[@analogbug16]

But if you know you're going to crop you're wasting half your film. With this method you get 2 frames for every normal framee.

[@chumleyk]

Cringe.