Hasselblad XPan
Hasselblad · XPan mount · 24×36mm standard or 24×65mm panorama on ordinary 135 cassettes, switchable frame by frame with the format selector; the manual gives 36, 24 and 12 frames in standard format or 21, 13 and 6 in panorama format from 36-, 24- and 12-exposure cassettes. The 24×65 frame is not in this site's frame-size list, so only the standard frame is indexed above. · 1998
Also known as: Hasselblad XPan · Hasselblad X-Pan · Hasselblad Xpan · XPan I · Hasselblad XPan 45mm · Fuji TX-1 · Fujifilm TX-1 · ハッセルブラッド XPan · ハッセルブラッド エックスパン · フジ TX-1
Variants & identification
| Variant | Mount | Years | Serial ranges | Production |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hasselblad XPan | XPan | 1998–2002 | 11EE13969 (a 1999 body, Dan Cuny's example) | Hasselblad's history page gives approximately 16,800 XPan cameras between 1998 and 2002; whether that figure includes the Fuji-badged TX-1 is not stated |
| Fujifilm TX-1 | XPan | 1998–2002 | — | No separate figure published; Hasselblad's 16,800 may or may not include it |
- Body specifications from the Hasselblad XPan instruction manual (the edition that already lists the 30mm lens and the 1999–2000 award); lens data from Hasselblad's XPan lens brochure.
How to tell them apart
- Long, low body — 166mm wide for a 35mm rangefinder — with the format selector (standard/panorama) on the top plate and a 24×65mm film gate visible with the back open
- Titanium top and bottom plates on an aluminium chassis, rubber-covered back; interchangeable eyepiece diopters
- Two CR2 lithium cells in the base; illuminated LCD counter showing frames remaining in the current format
- Tripod socket at one end of the body rather than under the lens axis, and a cable-release socket at the far left
- Lenses marked 'Hasselblad 4/45 mm', '4/90 mm' or '5.6/30 mm Aspherical' on the XPan; 'SUPER-EBC FUJINON TX' on the TX-1
Hasselblad XPan:
- 'HASSELBLAD' on the front plate and the XPan logotype on the top plate; Hasselblad product code 14010 for the body, 14450 for the kit with the 4/45 (instruction manual)
- Dark grey painted finish over titanium top and bottom plates — the paint chips readily, which sources describe as the main visual difference from the bare-metal TX-1
- Large ISO dial on the front, exposure-compensation ring on the power/drive dial, no shutter-speed readout in the finder — the three points that separate it from the XPan II
- Serial in Hasselblad's post-1990 form: numeric product prefix 11 followed by a two-letter VHPICTURES year code (EE = 1999)
Fujifilm TX-1:
- 'FUJIFILM' and 'TX-1' engravings in place of the Hasselblad marks; the lenses are engraved SUPER-EBC FUJINON TX
- Unpainted light finish — 'silver' per camera-wiki, 'champagne' per Kamerastore, 'raw titanium' per Jonas Rask — which does not chip the way the painted XPan does
- Hasselblad XPan: The camera as sold everywhere except Japan. Rørslett's very early body (no. 933, ordered 1998) closed its 'B' setting after about 30 seconds and came back from a factory service a year later with the limit raised to 270 seconds — the figure the later manual prints — so early and late XPan I bodies differ in behaviour without any change of name. His first 45mm lens was also one of a first series recalled to have its focusing helicoid replaced.
- Fujifilm TX-1: The same camera built on the same line and sold by Fuji in Japan only, at ¥160,000 for the body according to a Japanese owner's review (kakaku.com lists the 10 September 1998 release date but no maker price). Every mechanical and optical specification is shared with the XPan; lenses interchange between the two.
Serial-range notes
- 11EExxxxx and the like
- Hasselblad-badged bodies carry Hasselblad's own serial form — a numeric product prefix (11 on the XPan) followed by the two-letter year code read with VHPICTURES (V=1 H=2 P=3 I=4 C=5 T=6 U=7 R=8 E=9 S=0), so EE = 1999, SS = 2000, SV = 2001, SH = 2002. Q.G. de Bakker's page on Hasselblad Historical explains the code; Dan Cuny's 11EE13969 is a dated example. Whether the Fuji TX-1 serials follow the same scheme is not documented.
- No. 933 (Rørslett)
- A body from the first months of production. Its 'B' setting closed at about 30 seconds until a 1999–2000 factory service raised it to 270 seconds, so low-numbered bodies that never went back to Gothenburg may still behave that way.
Specifications
- Format
- 24×36mm standard or 24×65mm panorama on ordinary 135 cassettes, switchable frame by frame with the format selector; the manual gives 36, 24 and 12 frames in standard format or 21, 13 and 6 in panorama format from 36-, 24- and 12-exposure cassettes. The 24×65 frame is not in this site's frame-size list, so only the standard frame is indexed above.
- Finder
- Coupled coincident-image rangefinder/viewfinder with ambient-light bright frames; the frames switch automatically for the lens fitted (45 or 90) and for the format selected · 45mm, 90mm framelines · automatic — by lens fitted and format selected · automatic parallax correction · 85% coverage
- Shutter
- Vertically travelling metal focal plane, electronically controlled · 8s–1/1000 and B, set in 1 EV steps on manual and stepless (1/12 EV) on automatic; B is electronically limited — 270 s in the manual, about 30 s on the earliest bodies per Rørslett; automatic mode runs to 4 s · flash sync 1/125 and slower, hot shoe · self-timer
- Film advance
- Built-in motor, pre-wind type: the whole roll is wound onto the take-up spool on loading and each exposed frame is rewound into the cassette, so a mid-roll accident loses only the unexposed frames. Automatic repositioning when the format is changed, single and continuous modes — 3 frames/s in standard format, 2 frames/s in panorama — and automatic rewind.
- Back
- Hinged, non-removable; DX contacts; the film-transport IR emitter/sensor sits behind it
- Meter
- TTL centre-weighted averaging, reading a central area of about 20×30mm at the shutter plane in both formats; aperture-priority AE and manual, ±1/3 EV stated accuracy, EV 4 (f/4) to EV 19 (f/22) at ISO 100; ISO 25–3200 by DX or manual dial; ±2 EV compensation in 1/2 steps; auto-bracket in 0.5 or 1 EV steps (standard, under, over)
- Motor drive
- Compatible — Built in — there is no manual advance and the camera does nothing without its two CR2 cells
- Weight
- 720 g
- Dimensions
- 166 × 82 × 51 (W × H × D), body only, per the instruction manual mm
- Country
- Japan
- Original price
- $1,995 (USD) with the 45mm f/4 at the 1998 launch (Mike Eckman); the 30mm lens kit followed at $2,500 in late 1999. In Japan the Fujifilm TX-1 body is quoted at ¥160,000 by a Japanese owner's review; kakaku.com gives no maker price. (today $3,840)
- Accessories
- Viewfinder XPan 30 — shoe-mounted finder with built-in spirit level, supplied with the 30mm lens · Centre filter XPan 49mm for the 45mm (announced spring 1999, one-stop factor) and 58mm for the 30mm · Lens shades XPan 54406 (45mm), 30 XPan (30mm) · Spirit level XPan, quick-coupling plate with hex wrench, strap, front protective cap — all supplied with the body · Eyepiece correction lenses (interchangeable diopters) · Cable release — the socket is at the far left of the body
The manual specifies "field of view 85% or more" and red LED exposure symbols inside the finder, but publishes neither a magnification nor a rangefinder base length. The 30mm lens is framed with the separate Viewfinder XPan 30, which fits the flash shoe and carries a spirit level; the body rangefinder is then used for focusing only.
Figures we worked out rather than found: The 'kit weight' reading of Hasselblad's 950 g is this project's arithmetic (720 g body + 235 g 45mm lens = 955 g), not a published statement
Where sources disagree
- Production
- Approximately 16,800 between 1998 and 2002 — Hasselblad's XPan history page
- 'A few tens of thousands across two generations' — Matthias Jambon-Puillet, Casual Photophile
Better supported: Approximately 16,800 (Hasselblad)
Hasselblad does not say whether the Fuji-badged TX-1 is inside its figure; no Fuji figure has been found
- Weight (grams)
- 720 g body only, without batteries — instruction manual, Kamerastore, kakaku.com
- 755 g body only — Mike Eckman's scale
- 950 g — Hasselblad's history page, without saying what is included
Better supported: 720 g (manual)
Hasselblad's 950 g is close to the manual's body plus the 45mm lens (720 + 235 = 955 g) and is probably a kit weight
- Speeds (B limit)
- 270 s maximum — the instruction manual
- About 30 s on the earliest bodies, raised to 270 s at a factory service — Bjørn Rørslett, body no. 933
Both are true of different bodies; an unserviced early XPan may still close after half a minute
- Fuji-tx-1 finish
- Silver — camera-wiki
- Champagne — Kamerastore
- Raw titanium — Jonas Rask
Three descriptions of the same unpainted metal; the XPan's grey paint is what all three are contrasting it with
- Announced
- Mid-1998, on sale at $1,995 — Mike Eckman
- 10 September 1998 (TX-1, Japan) — kakaku.com
- 20 July 1998 press conference in Frankfurt — attributed to Blue Moon Camera's museum page, not readable directly
No Hasselblad press release has been located
What reviewers say
- Mike Eckman (blog) — A full history and test with the 30mm: launched mid-1998 at $1,995 with the 45mm, designed and built by Fujifilm, expensive, specialised, and producing images of a scope no other camera gives — yet too costly and narrow for most photographers.
- Bjørn Rørslett, naturfotograf.com (blog) — A professional's long-term report on body no. 933: superb panoramic imagery undermined by a 'B' that closed at 30 seconds, a recalled first-series 45mm, loose screws, flaking paint and two factory overhauls — by 2002 a Noblex and a Bessa were going on most trips instead.
- Michael Reichmann, Luminous Landscape (blog) — Written for PHOTO Techniques in 2000: outstanding image quality and a body that feels built to last, marred by the missing shutter-speed display in the finder and a stiff format switch — still a pleasure to use.
- Cal Stewart, 35mmc (blog) — After about 200 rolls, a street and documentary camera he would not give up — while wishing it had a manual advance, since every electronic XPan will eventually die.
- Gale Lee, Casual Photophile (Fujifilm TX-1) (blog) — Eight years and roughly 1,600 frames on a TX-1: reliable, sharp in all three lenses, a bright finder — and an eccentric, costly niche system that is indispensable only to someone committed to the 2.7:1 frame.
- Matthias Jambon-Puillet, Casual Photophile (blog) — 'The Curse of the Hasselblad XPan': breathtaking metre-long prints from an exceptionally engineered camera that most buyers will end up leaving on a shelf, and regretting selling.
- David Mantripp, snowhenge.net (blog) — An XPan owner since spring 2000 (and an XPan II since losing the first to seawater): a 'gorgeous' finder, accurate meter and excellent lenses, but 'only a camera' whose mythology has inflated prices past what it is worth.
- ジロー, 赤城山をもっと!! (Fujifilm TX-1) (blog) — Released 1998 at ¥160,000; sharp, edge-defined images and a real panorama rather than a crop, held back only by a used price above ¥500,000 with lenses and the three-lens range. via machine translation — corrections welcome
History
The XPan is the one Hasselblad that is not a Hasselblad in the usual sense. Marco Cavina’s technical account states flatly that it was developed entirely by Fuji Photo Film, and every other source agrees on the essentials: Fujifilm designed and built the camera and its three lenses in Japan, sold it there as the Fujifilm TX-1, and supplied it to Gothenburg for sale everywhere else under the Hasselblad name. Hasselblad’s own history page calls it a partnership and dates it to 1998; Japanese Wikipedia’s Hasselblad article gives the same relationship in a single line, adding that the H system that followed in 2002 came from the same collaboration. Cavina traces the concept back through Fuji’s own 6×9 rangefinders, the G690 line of 1968, and the camera does look like a Fuji medium-format rangefinder scaled to 35mm — which, given a 24×65mm frame wider than a 6×6 negative, is more or less what it is.
The idea is the dual format. The instruction manual describes a 24×36mm and a 24×65mm frame “on the same film”, switched by a selector on the top plate; the built-in motor pre-winds the whole roll onto the take-up spool on loading, rewinds each exposed frame into the cassette, and repositions the film when the format changes so that nothing is wasted. The manual’s frame counts are 36, 24 and 12 in standard format or 21, 13 and 6 in panorama from the three cassette lengths. Behind it is a vertically travelling electronic focal-plane shutter from 8 s to 1/1000 with sync at 1/125, a TTL centre-weighted meter reading a roughly 20×30mm strip at the shutter plane from EV 4 to EV 19 at ISO 100, aperture-priority and manual exposure, DX or manual ISO 25–3200, ±2 EV compensation and auto-bracketing, all on two CR2 cells. The body is titanium plates on an aluminium chassis, 166 × 82 × 51mm and 720g without batteries by the manual’s figures. The three lenses in Hasselblad’s brochure are a 4/45 of 8 elements in 6 groups, a 4/90 of 9 in 7, and a 5.6/30 Aspherical of 10 in 8 with two aspheric surfaces, the last added later — Mike Eckman dates its announcement to October 1999 with a $2,500 kit price — and framed with its own shoe-mounted finder. The 45 and 30 were sold with centre filters; Bjørn Rørslett obtained the 45’s in May 1999 after a spring announcement and judged it indispensable.
Dating the launch precisely is harder than it should be. Eckman has the camera on sale in mid-1998 at $1,995 with the 45mm; kakaku.com gives 10 September 1998 for the TX-1 in Japan; Rørslett ordered his at the press release “this summer” and waited months for delivery because, in his words, the factory had teething problems. A 20 July 1998 Frankfurt press conference and a Photokina 1998 showing circulate in search summaries without a readable source. The manual’s preface records the vote as “European Professional Camera of the Year 1999–2000”. Hasselblad’s history page gives production as approximately 16,800 between 1998 and 2002, without saying whether Fuji’s TX-1 sales are inside that number.
The XPan I and the TX-1 differ only in badging and finish. Camera-wiki has the TX-1 silver and the XPan painted black; Kamerastore calls the Fuji finish champagne, Jonas Rask calls it raw titanium, and all agree that the Hasselblad’s grey paint does not adhere well to titanium and chips, as Cal Stewart, Rørslett and David Mantripp each report. Hasselblad-badged bodies carry the company’s normal serial form — a numeric product prefix, 11, followed by the two-letter VHPICTURES year code that Q.G. de Bakker explains on Hasselblad Historical, so that Dan Cuny’s 11EE13969 is a 1999 body. How Fuji numbered the TX-1 is not documented anywhere consulted.
What changed during the run is behaviour rather than appearance. Rørslett’s body no. 933 closed its ‘B’ setting after about 30 seconds — “the B setting isn’t for real”, he wrote in 1999 — and returned from a factory service a year later with the limit raised to 270 seconds, which is the figure the later manual prints. His first 45mm lens was one of a first series that Hasselblad admitted had a design flaw in the focusing helicoid and recalled for replacement. The manual also warns that the infrared emitter and sensor that watch the film transport can fog high-speed infrared film at the frame edge; camera-wiki records that the seals were reworked for the 2003 XPan II, whose other changes — ISO and compensation moved to a rear LCD, shutter speed shown in the finder, a 2-second self-timer, a 9-minute B — are the whole difference between the generations. Production ended in 2006, Hasselblad says, when EU rules on electronic components would have required a redesign; an XPan cannot be worked manually, and Film Reasons lists light seals, rangefinder alignment, battery cut-outs and an ‘8888’ shutter-motor error as the routine faults.
What remains open: whether 16,800 counts TX-1 bodies; the exact launch date and any Hasselblad press material; the finder’s magnification and rangefinder base, which the manual never states; when the B-limit change was made in production rather than by retrofit; and how Fuji numbered its own cameras.
This history is AI-written, from the sources listed at the foot of the page. Where the record is silent it says so rather than filling the gap — but no human wrote these sentences.
Photographs
More sample photos elsewhere
- Flickr — Xpan group (XPan-only, panoramic format)
- Flickr — XPANded group (65×24 aspect, XPan and TX-1)
- Flickr — tag hasselbladxpan
These photographers keep all rights to their work — enjoy it at the source.
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