Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/01/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> Scheimpflug has nothing to do with perspective control. Your mixing apples > with oranges. Scheimpflug when you tilt, not when you shift. Shift is for > perspective control. Scheimpflug is for DOF *control*. > > And it works for 35mm. I can get down and get a pebble in focus 2ft in > front > of me as well as the rocks at the cove entrance. You *cannot* do that > without > a bit of tilt. It isn't sharp all the way. 35 or 8x10... > > Try it; you'll like it. > Bob Adler Scheimpflug is for getting everything in focus I'm sure I didn't make that clear did you really think I didn't know that? I But a shift lens will tilt and shift so both things are part of the story. Perspective and focus issues. What we are talking about is all of a sudden we need features normally thought to be need into large sheet film photography in small roll film photography. "its not as sharp?" I was not aware of a sharpness problem. We have a new tool to solve a problem we didn't know we had. I've never seen a print shot from roll film that was sharper becaue of a tilt shift lens than it would be from a more traditional lens. Its all a bit new. In my mind now is a show I saw black and white from Brett Weston's work at the Portland art museum in the early 80's printed on Agfa Brovira. Amazing blacks I think printed with Amidol. Shot with a SL66 medium format Agfapan 25 16x20 prints. Was he tilting for Scheimpflug? I don't think so. [Rabs] Mark William Rabiner