A friend of mine has an X-Pan. It's a little large, but it works
beautifully and the lenses are sharp. One caveat to those lusting
after one: The shorter lenses have a lot of fall-off. Enough of a problem
that there's one of those (expensive) center-weighed filters
designed to solve the problem, and when you use it, the effective
f/stop plummets. No problem for the tripoded landscape photographer,
but limiting to others. This in the pano mode only, when used as a
24x36mm, the filter's not needed.
*= Doris Fang =*
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