Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/07/23

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Subject: [Leica] Re: [Rollei] Re:Hasselblad XPAN
From: "Jacques-Bertrand Pichette" <jbpichette@mail.dotcom.fr>
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 19:04:23 -0400
 
- -----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Phillips <mlphilli@hsc.vcu.edu>
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us =
<leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Cc: Rollei@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <Rollei@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Date: 23 juillet, 1998 16:25
Subject: [Rollei] Re:Hasselblad XPAN

>The thing that I find most amusing about the introduction of the =
Hasselblad
>XPan is that for years this company and Mr. Ernst Wildi, their =
corporate
>parrot, has been "'the square','the square','the square','the =
square','the
>square'", extolling the virtues of the square format  - and then =
introduces
>a camera that shoots not just rectangular shots, but very long =
rectangular
>shots at that. You'd think they'd strip some gears, back-peddling like =
that.
>



Rectangles are not just an addition of squares ????   Or isn't ???    =
;-)