You know how when you point the camera up to get all of that tower block in
the frame, it ends up looking like the eiffel tower, all pointy? A shift
lens (for example) allows you to keep the camera back parallel with the
tower cblock, while extending the field of view upwards. No converging
verticals.
The simple explanation - there are other applicatons for the shift lens
which we can go into later (taking a photo full-on to a mirror, without the
camera appearing in the picture is another that comes to mind).
Her's an intro: http://www.photo.net/photo/canon/tilt-shift
Piers
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From: owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Mike Ferguson
Sent: 05 September 2003 23:46
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [OM] Shift lenses - was: Allow me to introduce myself...
On 5/9/03 10:56 pm, "Jeff Keller" <jrk_om@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Immediately after you buy one of
> those the 35/2.8 shift
OK, guys,
Just an hour or two after my post and I'm getting a lot of great ideas, and
a longer post in response to those is coming...
But I do have a burning question. Can someone explain this shift lenses
thing to me. I would hate to consider myself a stupid man (:-)) but I'm
just not getting it.
So, from first principles, if you would - a lens that (from what I can tell)
shifts up and down on its mounting - for why?
Yours confusedly
Mike
PS My wallet has scurried off into a corner and hidden - why is that?
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