When I was shooting film, I didn't have a shift lens, but what I did was
shoot things that had the potential for converging lines with the 50 on the
Hasselblad from a way back, high in the frame. It gives a bit of the same
effect, and lessens the amount of correction needed in PS. I've found that
too much correction on PS often looks strange. Apply that princple to 35mm
or digital. The 50 on the '[blad is about 35 on 35.
Bill Pearce
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From: Andrew Fildes [mailto:afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 3:23 PM
To: Olympus Camera Discussion
Subject: Re: [OM] What to buy for architectural photography at a budget?
I'd stick to Olympus normal 4/3rds as the mFT lenses tend to be more
expensive.
Also it looks more 'professional' .
It's not that much of a dead end - you won't care what the situation is in 5
years time!
The E-620 with 9-18mm and 50mm would be good.
What you really need is a shift lens but you don't have the budget for it so
access to computers with a site licence for Photoshop is essential.
Andrew Fildes
afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
On 19/10/2010, at 5:59 AM, iwert bernakiewicz wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> Long time no write, but it has been very busy here. I've been reviving
> the tool of photography at my architecture school and it is rather
> successful. I'll be doing two courses for alumni about photography in
> the architectural practice (architectural models & other specialties
> as well as the basics). the first was full in 48 hours, so there
> appears to be a need in the professional world :).
>
> Now that the iron is hot I got a friendly mail today telling me to
> propose a camera for school with a budget of 1500 Euro maximum.
>
> Now there are a few quirks: no second hand allowed, and to be of EU
> origin, and including TVA, so this will be the rough equivalent of 1500$.
>
> Students as well as teachers will use the camera, not always too
> friendly I suppose. So I've been thinking:
>
> Panasonic G2 kit (570) + 7-14mm (1019), has video, lots of DOF
> (required for architectural models, the more the better:) and can
> mount the old Leica macro lenses we still have through an adaptor.
>
> Panasonc GH1 kit (1019) + Olympus 9-18 (599)
>
> Olympus E-620 (509,-) + 50 f2 (589,-) + 9-18 (509,-) might do it however.
> Question if this is not too much of a dead end?
>
> (but all these are over budget by 100 Euro..., why isn't it possible
> to buy body only with panasonic... would do the trick otherwise)
>
> First two offer video, which might be interesting to experiment with
> for the students.
>
> Live-view is a definite plus. Canon is not good at the wide end
> (except for the shifts, but that is not within budget either :).
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Iwert
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