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Subject: [Leica] Trip to India - Suggestions?
From: alal at duke.poly.edu (A. Lal)
Date: Sat Dec 15 18:38:21 2007
References: <200712151548.AHV67288@rg4.comporium.net><001e01c83f55$38704130$6501a8c0@xyw> <00ba01c83f88$027010a0$075031e0$@net>

Of course a view camera would be ideal, no question, but it would add a lot 
of weight and be very slow to work with.  IME simple shift and a high 
vantage point are usually sufficient to get a good image with no lean or 
distortion.




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Frank Filippone" <red735i@earthlink.net>
To: "'Leica Users Group'" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Saturday, 15 December, 2007 9:04 PM
Subject: RE: [Leica] Trip to India - Suggestions?


> Shifts?   Do you not mean swings and or more importantly, tilts and front
> rise/ back fall?
>
> Frank Filippone
> red735i@earthlink.net
>
>
> 1.    Take with you a 6x9 or  6x12 camera with shifts if you intend to 
> take
> photos of monuments. A 35mm camera with a wide angle lens is not adequate 
> to
>
> do justice to these structures IMHO. No need to take a view camera, 
> Horseman
>
> makes a shift camera that is quite portable. If you don't want to do this,
> take at least a 28 mm shift lens for your R.

> 


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