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Figure 2-4 Film format size comparison. The Hasselblad 2¼ square (6 6) format (top right) and
the 6 4.5 format (bottom right) are shown in comparison to the 35 mm fi lm format (left).
The Superslide Format
Hasselblad used to offer a special fi lm magazine (A-16S) for the Superslide size of 41 41 mm
small enough for transparencies to be projected in 35 mm projectors. While projected
Superslides are very effective, the format never became very popular partially because some
35 mm projectors could not project Superslides without darkening the corners of the images.
The Panoramic Format
Images are considered panoramic when the long image side is at least twice as long as the
other side. With the Hasselblad XPan camera, you can create panoramic pictures 24 65 mm
right in the camera on standard 35 mm fi lm.
The medium-format fi lm image size, or the image size on the 36.7 49 mm sensor, is
also large enough so that you can create effective panoramic images of perhaps 18 54 mm
or 18 49 mm by simply printing only a portion of the original image or masking the
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