At 20:56 8/21/02, Winsor Crosby wrote:
If you can resist tilting a very wide angle lens upwards I don't think you
need a shift lens. There are very few parallel lines in a natural
environment. It depends on whether you want much foreground in the
picture. I think foreground anchors the picture. Level 21, 24, 28mm
lenses will take superb pictures.
--
Winsor Crosby
Long Beach, California
This might be acceptable if you're willing to live with the necessity to
crop, limited enlargement and the associated costs. Cropping requires
custom lab work unless one owns their own darkroom. Having custom prints
made is very expensive, even small 4x6's. The same size "commercial"
prints which are done the same way, using the same print materials, without
any cropping, dodging or burning are much less expensive. In addition, if
one is after large prints, it limits maximum print size because a smaller
negative is being used. As a result of cost and desire to maximize print
size, I prefer doing ***everything*** in camera. Hence, the use of a shift
lens when it enables achieving a visualization using a full film frame.
-- John
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