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My DIY Sony X-Pan or A7riiP

Started Apr 26, 2021 | Discussions thread
ProfHankD
ProfHankD Veteran Member • Posts: 9,147
Re: My DIY Sony X-Pan or A7riiP
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SaschaSelli wrote:

A few digital alternatives to the Xpan have been around for some time. Hasselblad, Fuji or Panasonic natively display the 65:24 format in the viewfinder.

... Without further ado, two strips of tape on the sensor protective glass, using the lines on the display as a guide and the Sony viewfinder only showed the desired 3: 1 format.

It hurts even to think about tape on the cover glass....  Aren't the grid lines close enough?

Anyway, on the older Sonys, that still support playmemories, it would be possible to use OpenMemories to make an app to do arbitrary aspect crops... but possible!=easy.

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