Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/22

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Squares and sabotage
From: Eric Welch <ewelch@neteze.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 18:56:05 -0800

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. :-)

Eric Welch
Carlsbad, CA

http://www.neteze.com/ewelch

The gene pool could use a little chlorine.