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My DIY Sony X-Pan or A7riiP

Started Apr 26, 2021 | Discussions thread
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Re: My DIY Sony X-Pan or A7riiP

SaschaSelli wrote:

ProfHankD wrote:

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.

For me personally, the lines are unfortunately not enough. Since I sometimes go on longer hikes over several days and do not take a computer with me, a lot of pictures accumulate over the course of days, which I would have to crop at home according to my memory.

Of course, the images could be crop by using a batch function in Photoshop, but then I still miss the crop in the viewfinder.

The simplest solution would be if Sony made it possible for us to choose from a large number of formats or even to be able to enter own formats in camera...

wouldnt that be great, Ive just bought a 24 mm lens for landscapes on my a7r2 and that would be perfect as i to love shooting out of camera. mind you it wouldnt be hard to make an insert to slip into the camera body or even an insert for a uv filter actually you have motivated my inventive brain

Don

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