[LRFlex] Re: shift lenses

Noel

Being biased, I'm too, I like the 40mm length a lot. If only Voigtlander would do something...

Thanks for the cmment about the use of a shift lens for the landscape. I've never read anything about the use of a shift lens but for arvhitecture.

I guess it is a matter or hit and try work.

For a long time there were a 35mm curtagon at la Maison du Leica, I wonder if it is still there.

It opens some new perspective to experimental photgraphy. I had been tempted by pinhole photography too.

Cheers.
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Xavier F. BILLE
Maisons-Alfort - France.





From: Noel Yates <noel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [LRFlex] Re: shift lenses
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 10:10:25 +0100

>>At 05:06 27/07/2004, Xavier wrote:
>>Reading a book about digital Photo technique, I've seen that Photo shop has
>>a menu for persepective control. So, are those lens really useful?

Yes Photoshop can correct verticals and horizontals but inserts pixels to get the image back to a rectangle (or square).

Shift lenses can be used for panoramics as well: full shift left for the first image, full shift right for a second then stitch together in Photoshop. At a pinch you could also turn your Leica M into a shift camera with a PA-Curtagon/PC-Super-Angulon/Arsat and a Novoflex R lens to M body adaptor. Shift lenses are also high-performing wide-angles when not shifted because you only use the centre of their larger-than-normal image circle.

I am biased because for me the 35mm focal length is easily the most useful so I have 35 Elmarit for lightness when out and about, a 35 Summicron (the old heavy version) for when the light is low, 35 PA-Curtagon (not just for its shifting, it's also light in weight) and the pre-ASPH 35 Summilux-M.

Noel




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