Black & White Panoramics with the Xpan

The Hasselblad Xpan is a beautiful camera. It is extremely well built and very good looking and that's important too : you need a tool that you love and like to use in order to get good results from it. Unfortunately, making good pictures with an Xpan turned out to be more difficult than I expected. It took several rolls of film before I more or less came to grips with it. The 'best' results I have achieved with this camera so far were with black & white film, like the one posted here. One has to grow on this camera, instead of the other way around. For a moment I even thought the purchase of it was a mistake, but come to think of it : perhaps it's a good thing that the tool is a bit of a challenge to use. Would you rather be bored with a new camera right away? And in that case, can you expect different or better pictures from it than from your other gear? Learning to master the Xpan is demanding and requires patience, and that is something we all have too little of these days. Lesson learnt.