With a software upgrade freely available today, OnePlus has added a new photographic mode called XPan to the OnePlus 9 and OnePlus 9 Pro, the company's latest flagship smartphones featuring a camera developed in collaboration with Hasselblad. The XPan was an analog panoramic camera released by the Swedish company in the late nineties. It was a unique machine that was able to switch to a panorama mode without having to change the usual 35mm film loaded inside. The camera used a dual-format, producing both full panorama 24x65mm format and conventional 24x36mm format on the same roll.
Hasselblad XPan, the unforgettable analogue panoramic camera, is now a OnePlus feature
OnePlus 9 and OnePlus 9 Pro gain a new photographic mode that emulates the iconic Hasselblad Xpan panoramic camera from the late nineties.
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- Andrea Nepori
- 17 September 2021
The XPan mode developed by OnePlus recreates the same experience, this time through software. Users will be able to shoot with a virtual 30mm or 45mm focal length, as they would have with the Hasselblad lenses available for the XPan camera. Pictures shot in XPan mode will have 65:24 panoramic proportions, the same size that could be achieved with Hasselblad's camera. To achieve this result, the smartphone uses the full 48 and 50MP resolution of its wide and ultra-wide cameras, cropping the pictures to fit the format automatically and with a live preview of the result. When shooting in XPan mode, the OnePlus 9 series users can choose between two new film simulation effects applied directly to the XPan shot. The default one is in black and white, while the second is a colour film profile. OnePlus developed both with Hasselblad's help to properly calibrate the tone and emulate the classic look of pictures taken with the analog XPan.