[Leica] IMG: Foothill Park

[philippe.amard at sfr.fr (philippe.amard)]

Le 12 avr. 11 ? 20:11, George Lottermoser a ?crit :

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> On Apr 12, 2011, at 12:34 PM, Richard Man wrote:
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>> So are you saying that the ideal solution, barring that it's not  
>> digital, is a large format camera shooting on film, with a wide  
>> angle lens?
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> The focal length of the lens is not the issue in a tilt shift view  
> camera world Richard.
> You can use tilt and shift with any focal length lens.
>
> Simply speaking:
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> Shift allows you to (perhaps) not tilt the camera;
> assuming you have a large enough image circle to play in.
> As long as the image plane and lens plane remain parallel
> Bob can easily use his "flex" shift to stitch to the full extent of  
> his image circle
> both horizontally and vertically.
>
> Tilt (and swing) allows both close and distant objects to be in focus.
> But when Bob tilts to achieve this effect
> he has no easy way to see what the focus is at the extremes of his  
> "shifting."
>
> And - yes - the perfect landscape, architecture and studio camera  
> remains
> a view camera with full shift, swing and tilt movements because it  
> allows:
> near to far focus
> image plane to remains vertical
> etc.
>

Tested and approved
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Phileica/Playground/Old+ladies-1140773.jpg.html

Ph




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