Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/06/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Harrison McClary wrote: > >The shift you can get with a > >85mm would be very limited at a practical distance, wouldn't it. I'm > >just not sure what to think, so please enlighten me, if you will. > > One thing you can do with a tilt/shift 85 or 90 is to select the plane > of > focus as you would in a view camera. I have a very good friend who > does > a lot of entertainment portraits and got the Canon 90 TSE lens for > this > efect. He can get just one eye in focus if he so chooses...not the > same > effect as using depth of field to do this...something about using the > tilt/shift gives a very unique look. Very cool feature and look. That's the tilt part, yes. That's sounds useful. I have more difficulty understanding the use of the shift function in 85mm lenses. Too bad I don't know anyone who has one, so I could try and play with it. Bernard