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p.1 #1 · "Near-To-Far" DOF w/tilt

Here's an article I read up on last night that started to make a "little" sense to me as to what is going on with tilt.

http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/tilt-shift-lenses2.htm

Here is today's attempt to put it into practice. IIRC this was about 18-20 inches away from the "plane of focus" (sign) with about 3-4 degress of tilt. It also has a few millimeters of shift being used (darn, forgot my ladder). Even a step stool would have been nice, but the shift saved the day in that regard.

Shot @ only f5.6

Jun 11, 2012 at 12:50 AM

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p.1 #2 · "Near-To-Far" DOF w/tilt

pretty amazing for 5.6.
Did you buy the lens with architectural shots in mind?
Scott

Jun 30, 2012 at 11:01 PM

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p.1 #3 · "Near-To-Far" DOF w/tilt

Thanks Scott.

I bought the lens with sorta architecture in mind, sorta for landscape max DOF, sorta always wanted to learn tilt, sorta ... YIKES, it is an ultra-sharp WA lens with essentially no aberrations/distortion and very, very low vignetting.

Yes, to all of the above.

Jul 01, 2012 at 12:08 AM

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p.1 #4 · "Near-To-Far" DOF w/tilt

Sounds cool. That is a lot of DOF, crazy.

Jul 01, 2012 at 02:29 PM

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p.1 #5 · "Near-To-Far" DOF w/tilt

Yep. You can do amazing corrections and set interesting planes of focus with it.

Jul 01, 2012 at 09:54 PM

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p.1 #6 · "Near-To-Far" DOF w/tilt

What is going on with the strange magenta cast on the wall above the sign Kent?

Aug 25, 2012 at 06:17 PM

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p.1 #7 · "Near-To-Far" DOF w/tilt

timballic wrote:
What is going on with the strange magenta cast on the wall above the sign Kent?

Oh, that was probably my Kodak SLR/c applying its automated variable color correction compensation (green/magenta) that I forget the name for. It rears its head occasionally with UWA (and tilt/shift) and I missed it as this was only a "test shot" as I was learning to use tilt. No worries ... it was ALL camera, I get it with other UWA's against neutral areas @ the edges sometimes. It is very much a Kodak SLR/c thing and the OEM software has slider adjustments ... but I mostly process with PS these days, so I didn't put it through the Kodak's processing to offset what the camera applied.

Again ... this is a Kodak SLR/C thing only. The lens is incredibly well corrected.

Aug 25, 2012 at 06:26 PM

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p.1 #8 · "Near-To-Far" DOF w/tilt

RustyBug wrote:
Thanks Scott.

I bought the lens with sorta architecture in mind, sorta for landscape max DOF, sorta always wanted to learn tilt, sorta ... YIKES, it is an ultra-sharp WA lens with essentially no aberrations/distortion and very, very low vignetting.

Yes, to all of the above.

+1 on ultra sharp. I love both my TSE lenses.

I do have trouble focusing though when I have to use live view. It is sorta ok for near stuff but worthless for infinity on a 1DS-mk3 and my eyes. I am using the focus ring now for infinity and live view for tilt.

I have not used it much for side tilts as in this example. Very nice job here.

Aug 25, 2012 at 08:05 PM

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