Re: IR-LED film counter on Hassy X-Pan

["Willem-Jan Markerink" <w.j.markerink@xxxxx>]

On  4 Oct 98 at 19:34, Dan Gordon wrote:

> Hello Everyone,
> I had the chance to shoot the new Hassleblad XPAN camera on Sept. 24
> courtesy of our dealer here in Calgary.  I loaded a roll of HIE in a
> dark bag, the auto take up was a bit fussy, I think due to the thin
> emulsion of HIE.  No other problems as I exposed a full roll- almost all
> at the panoramic setting ( 24  x 65 mm).  The film counter does indeed
> fog the bottom sproket holes along the entire film length, there is only
> a small amount of fog that crosses into the image area - probably  would
> be cropped in most cases.  The camera I used was a proto type.

Dan, can you put a full-size scan on the web?
Seems as if Hasselblad hasn't done a better job technically, but they 
just avoided the unnecessary precaution that Canon, Minolta and 
Contax apply in their manual. 


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Bye,

Willem-Jan Markerink


      The desire to understand 
is sometimes far less intelligent than
     the inability to understand


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