Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> At 09:51 AM 11/22/99 -0800, Ken Iisaka wrote: > >I am especilly tired of "environmental portraits" taken with a tilted lens, > >so that the plane of focus is tilted, and only the eyes are in focus. I > >think the rage started with advertisement for Citibank, but they are so > >rampant that I'm sick of them. > > Yes, the Canon tilt/shift lens was very popular for a couple years for > advertisers in print and TV. They are now falling out of popularity, thank > goodness. But Canon must be a lot richer because of it. :-) Nikon recently came up with its tilt/shift long (85mm) lens, too. They claim it is a lens for product photos, though.