The XPan look is having a moment. Call the ratio 65:24 or 2.7:1 — either way it’s that long, narrow frame the Hasselblad XPan made famous. Used bodies still trade for thousands. I’m not paying that.
So I built FilmFrame instead. The repo is open now. If you have a Pixel (10-ish) and you want to shoot panoramas like an XPAN, clone it.
Why XPan, specifically
XPan if you don’t know is a format that was specifically made by Fuji and Hasselblad to capture wide angle images. The panoramic view brings a different perspective and back then, being able to capture using 35mm films made it a very attractive option. Current cameras with this crop like the Fuji X100RF go for $5K plus and a good original XPan sells for about the same on the used market. I like my cameras and manual photography but I’m not quite ready to drop that yet. I could justify dropping that on a computer but harder when my job isn’t photography.
What I shoot with it
I shoot a lot of walks on the beach, closer quarter stuff with my kids (panoramic stuff frames things differently), experimentally use it since that width just is so wild.
The film stock thing
The LUTS and film sims I’m less into to be honest, but I really like the Eterna and the PXL 2 HDR clone that I made. More importantly, make sure to use the widest lens you got!
Try it
The whole thing is on GitHub. Pixel only for now. If you build it and shoot something good, I’d love to see it. If you trust enough, you can also grab the debug enabled APK release here too.