The Hasselblad XPan was a classic 35mm ‘panoramic’ camera developed in partnership with Fujifilm. What made it special was its unique widescreen aspect ratio, creating images measuring 65mm x 24mm on 35mm film. You can recreate this unique perspective in Lightroom, together with some of the XPan’s analog rendering. Here’s how.
Merge (panoramas, HDR, focus stacking)
HDR (high dynamic range) images are usually created by blending a series of different exposures of the same scene to capture a wider brightness range than the camera could capture with a single exposure which are then blended together by HDR software using a ‘merge’ process. Panoramic images are made by merging a series of overlapping frames. Focus stacking is achieved by merging images of the same subject but with different focus points.