Goodbye Xpan hello Xpan 3D !

<p>In an interesting double page spread on p4,5 of BJP 22/03/06 ( www.bjp-online.com

), the <a href="http://www.bjp-online.com/public/showPage.html?page=321651"> Xpan

discontinuance </a>and the effects of low V series sales volumes are covered.<p>

<p>And just to show that strategic decision has more to do with the xpan's demise than,

lead free, on p4 something which looks remarkably familiar is the

Horseman 3D camera ! <a href="http://www.bjp-online.com/public/showPage.html?

page=321645"> http://www.bjp-online.com/public/showPage.html?page=321645</

a><p>

<p>

<img src="http://storage.kanshin.com/free/img_27/270803/k38611151.jpg">Horseman

3D </a>

from this <a href="http://www.kanshin.com/keyword-924742"> link : http://

www.kanshin.com/keyword-924742</a>

<p>

<p>Mind you I don't think they will sell many of them. Perhaps they should have sold the

body to Voigtländer instead </p>

<p>Hasselblad will instead make their own sensors and add a WLF for the H series and a

tilt-shift 'solution'

<p>

PS. If the horseman announcement was a week later, it would have looked like a good April

fools joke - the first thing I did was check the cover issue date. :-)

I've actually held that Horseman camera.<P>

<I>Hasselblad will instead make their own sensors</I><P>the sensors in the Hasselblad backs and cameras are made by Kodak to Hasselblad's specification.