>From: "Walt Wayman" <hiwayman@xxxxxxxxx>
>
>I betcha you'll be happier with a real macro lens and a geared
>head...
I have a geared head, the Bogen 410 (or Manfrotto 3275).
But they do fundamentally different things than shift lenses. A gear head does
yaw, pitch, and roll on a point (well, close to a point), whereas a shift lets
you "fly over" a surface.
If you're shooting flat work with minimal depth of field, the geared head will
require refocusing with each movement; the shift will not.
That's not to say that to say that a shift lens is as good at those distances
as a "real" macro lens, just that it's a neat thing to do. :-)
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