[Leica] Tilt-Shift Miniatures

[henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)]

Since you want to reduce the effective depth of field, you tilt in 
the opposite direction, ie, your intersection line is above the 
camera/lens. Wide open is of course necessary




>I really do think the miniaturization comes from tilting the lens board
>down; and shooting wide open. one needs to do both.
>
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>Mark William Rabiner
>Photography
>mark at rabinergroup.com
>
>
>>  From: Tina Manley <images at comporium.net>
>>  Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>>  Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 19:55:40 -0400
>>  To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>>  Subject: Re: [Leica] Tilt-Shift Miniatures
>>
>>  Thanks, everybody.  I knew it had to have something to do with depth of
>>  field but not entirely.  My Noctilux photos at 1.0 have a very shallow 
>> depth
>>  of field but they don't look miniaturized.  I think the planes of focus
>>  explanation is probably right but I'm not enough of an engineer to know!!
>>   It's fascinating to me that a lens could alter reality that much.
>>
>>  Tina
>

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