Also, for landscape work. That is how you get everything from the blades of grass in front of the camera to the mountains in the background sharp. Folks ought to read a good book on view camera techniques just so they will know what can be done, even if they have no interest in doing it themselves. A tilt shift lens gives you the movements of a press camera (front only), not those of a full view camera which has front and back movements. As for Photoshop, a kludge is better than nothing, but it ain't the real thing.
Interestingly there are things you can not do with a view camera that you can easily do with 35mm/digital, and vis versa. To do a full range of photography you really need both. However most large format users are pretty much hidden from most of the public unlike the wedding and photojournalist crowd, so are not as well known. It is not simply a just matter of a bigger negative, it is a matter of control. -- graywolf http://www.graywolfphoto.com http://webpages.charter.net/graywolf "Idiot Proof" <==> "Expert Proof" ----------------------------------- William Robb wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Inet Shopper" > Subject: Re: Pentax DSLR - some questions before I decide Inet > > >>> Sorry guys but you really cant do serious >>> Architechure with any pentax cameras or >>> Lenses because you need full camera movements >>> That only a view camera can provide for architecture. >>> Its amazing what you can do with a view for that. >>> jco >> I thought tilt/shift lenses were designed to perform perspective >> correction? > > Shift lenses help, and you can do a lot of perspective correction using > Photoshop as well. > I doubt John has much knowledge of Photoshop, since he isn't using > digital. > If you are serious about architectural photography, a view camera is > better. > > William Robb > > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
