Hasselblad Xpan - Page 40

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lf
you
open
the camera
back by mistake
before
you
have finished
the film,
you
will
only have lost
the
last
exposed frame
and
the unexposed frames.The
exposed
fromes
have
already
been wound back into
the cossette
as the
XPan
starts by withdrawing
all
of the film first
and
progressively
rewinding
it frame
by
frame.
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Make
a
habit
of turning off
the comera when
not in
use,
The
power
save function
will
put
the camera in
stand-by
mode
automatically
after
three minutes
of inactivity
but
it may
reactivate if
something
presses
against it; in
a
comera
bag for
example.
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Check
battery
status
regularly
and
always
keep
some
spare
botteries in
your
camera
bag.
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At very
low
temperatures,the
batteries may not
provide
sufficient
power
for
the camera.Keep
some spare bat-
teries in
your
pocket,for
example,to
keepthem
warm.
These
can
then be
exchanged and
be used
alternately
while
the
cold batteries
are being warmed.
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The
dependoble
working range
for
the camera is
-l
0"
C
-
+40"c.
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The
LCD's
may look
dark
at temperatures
around 60"
C
and react
slowly
atvery
low
temperatures.This
is
quite
normal
and
does not
signify a fault.
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When
using using
a combination
of the 45mm lens,
ponorama
format
and transparency
film,
the
natural
light
decrease appears
as slight light fall-off
for
critical
applicotions.This is
quite
natural
and is not
due
to lens
vignetting
for
a stopped-down lens.To
minimize
this ef-
fect
use an aperture
of
f/8
or smaller and
avoid under-
exposure.The
effect can
be completely
eliminated
by
using the
Centre
filter
XPan for
45mm
(54453).
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Remember
that
it
is roughly
the centrol 20 x30 mm
area
that
is
used in light
metering.This
is
particularly
impor-
tantwhen
usingthe
panoramoformatif
the scene
con-
tains
a wide range
of
lighting
or tonal, controsts.
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When
objects
ore
very
close
to the lens, remember
that
their
position
in relation
to
the
background will
also
be subject
to
parallax
and therefore,
dependent
on
dis-
tance,will
not
be exactly as seen in
the
viewfinderThis
effect is mainly
of concern
with
the
30mm
lens.
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Landscapes
can
often
include
a
great
deal
of sky
in
wide-angle
photography.lf
pale
in
tone or with
large
white clouds for
exomple,
such skies can affect
the ex-
posure
meter sufficiently
to cause
under-exposure of
the image.Dependant
on
the desired effect,take an
ex-
posure
reading from
a more
appropriate
part
of
the
subject,excluding most
of the
sky,or use an externalex-
posure
meter.