Nikon 5000

[Bill VN]

Mike,

I read a review of the new Nikon 5000 by B&H Photo, and one of the new features is in-camera perspective correction of verticals (keystoning). What are your thoughts about this feature, since it could ostensibly remove the need for shift lenses. From the review, I do not know if it only applies to JPGs or both JPGs and Raw.

Thanks.

[bill t.]

I just happened to look at the video review of the 5000 from bhphoto.com.

They have a short section showing the perspective control function.  It shows a foreshortened building with sky above, which during the straightening process pushes both the sky and the top part of the building out of the crop.  So apparently perspective straightening suffers from having to maintain the 1:1.5 image ratio...to correctly perspective correct the scene without clipping the building you would need to stretch into a more square image.  IMHO perspective control and the like is best left to post processing.  Of course the work around is just to leave a lot of extra sky above buildings you want to straighten.

Seriously considering the D5000 as a replacement for my newly broken D2X.