Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/12/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I do not quite understand why shift would help.... Starting with some definitions I have learned.... Shift is the movement left to right of the film or the front lens board. Rise/fall is straight up and down. Tilt is pointing up or down. Swing is pointing the lens left to right....relative to the film plane. I would think to get a good picture of the monuments, from basically ground level, and to avoid converging verticals, you would move the front LB UP and keep the LB and the film plane parallel to the object. This usually requires some amount of tilt, front and back, and pointing the camera upwards. Shift would help if you can only get so far to the right, but your subject is even farther to the right than you wish,,,,,, and you want correct non-converging horizontals ( where you see the perspective or vanishing lines). Rather than pointing your camera to theo right, which introduces distortion, you just shift the lens board to the right, keeping the film plane parallel to the front of your object. BTW, the Hasselblad FlexBody does rise, fall, and tilt very nicely, and works with all the normal shuttered Hasselblad lenses...... Or,as you state, a PC lens would work..... "shift" the lens up ( which is really front rise) and maybe a bit of tilt to fix the converging verticals...... don't forget your tripod.......! Maybe the problem is that you use the term "shift" in the sense of moving the lens in a plane up or down.... and I use it as the definition of moving the lens right to left? In which case we are talking about the same thing...... See.. it is all in the definitions.......I think..... Of course, there is always the ALPA.......! Frank Filippone red735i@earthlink.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. > _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information