I have made a few posts in this group and have really appreciated everyones response.
I guess before I actually go out and buy something I need to clarify a few things.
1. Do I need a MF solution with Tilt? I for sure want shift.
The reason I ask is because I am coming from a DSLR solution with PC-E lens and a D3x, where i need to be at f5.6 to F11 shooting at f16, F22 is not recommended because of diffraction so I usually shoot at F5.6 and use tilt to bring into focus the foreground.
Yet on MF shooting with a 35mm, 47mm, and 80mm would I be able to shoot at f16-F22 and not have to worry about diffraction so using hyperfocal focus I can pull in the foreground??
Or.. do I still need some tilt?
Only shooting landscape no tabletop stuff.
Thanks everyone.
Steven
You forget two things.
1) MF sensors are only slighlty bigger than 35mm ones. So if you think you need to avoid f/16 and f/22 (and I would recheck your calculations as differaction is only just coming into play) then you need to avoid f/22 on MF.
2) Depth of field varies by format at f/22, to a good approximation depending on the physical size of the aperture (just as diffraction does). So you would need to shoot at f/32 on MF to get about the same DoF as at f/22 on MF, and will then get the same amount of diffraction as on 35mm.
So the short answer is that if you need tilt on 35mm you need it also on any other format. But I would dispute that you
need it for DoF iin landscape photography more than occasionally. I'd say that I do so about once a year. The only one I can recall that is on my website is
http://portal.stats.ox.ac.uk/userdata/ripl...5/d29v2413.html , shot with tilt at f/11 and with pretty extreme foreground.
Caveats: some of the calculations are different in macro photography, and my assertions about f/stops are exact only for a sensor 1.4x bigger than 35mm -- but that is ballpark correct. And if people shoot MF/LF for greater resolution (and for film that is often the case) then they may look at bigger prints more closely when the effects of diffraction and marginal out-of-focus become more critical -- a 5x4" photographer friend of mine talks about noseprints on prints returning from an exhibition!