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Equipment & Techniques => Medium Format / Film / Digital Backs – and Large Sensor Photography => Topic started by: Richard Morwood on April 13, 2009, 05:58:43 pm
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I would appreciate any recommendations on books/reviews/websites dedicated to tilt and shift photography. I am using a Hasselblad H3D 39 and am currently "playing" with the new HTS adapter and this is an area of photography that I am wholly unfamiliar with. I have googled the subject in various guises but haven't had much success in getting readable and interesting information. Any advice would be much appreciated.
Regards
Richard
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I would appreciate any recommendations on books/reviews/websites dedicated to tilt and shift photography. I am using a Hasselblad H3D 39 and am currently "playing" with the new HTS adapter Richard
I had three Sinars before I bought my H3D11-50, so I suppose I was biased towards "proper" view cameras before I read about the HTS... but if you had inquired about it before buying it...
Having said that, it might be a cost-effective tool for what you want.
The Flexbody was (is) a good cost-effective tool, as it gives (on the 120 Macro-planar at least) useful movements without the cost of additional lenses.
Have you got Harold Merklinger's book "focusing the View camera"? This is the bible.
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I had three Sinars before I bought my H3D11-50, so I suppose I was biased towards "proper" view cameras before I read about the HTS... but if you had inquired about it before buying it...
Having said that, it might be a cost-effective tool for what you want.
The Flexbody was (is) a good cost-effective tool, as it gives (on the 120 Macro-planar at least) useful movements without the cost of additional lenses.
Have you got Harold Merklinger's book "focusing the View camera"? This is the bible.
Hi Dick
I haven't bought the HTS adapter ......yet, but have hired one for the Easter weekend. I haven't been totally clueless as to it's use but I certainly have a whole lot to learn and undoubtedly put into practice again and again and again.....
Thanks for the tip on Harold Merklinger's book I shall look into that.
Regards
Richard
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Hi Dick
I haven't bought the HTS adapter ......yet, but have hired one for the Easter weekend. I haven't been totally clueless as to it's use but I certainly have a whole lot to learn and undoubtedly put into practice again and again and again.....
Thanks for the tip on Harold Merklinger's book I shall look into that.
Regards
Richard
Link to Merklinger's books: http://www.trenholm.org/hmmerk/ (http://www.trenholm.org/hmmerk/)
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Hi Dick
I haven't bought the HTS adapter ......yet, but have hired one for the Easter weekend. Regards Richard
The HTS is smaller and lighter than a Sinar, and, if you want something to put in your rucksack in case you wand to photograph some alpine flowers with an mountain in the background, it might be a useful tool
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The HTS is smaller and lighter than a Sinar, and, if you want something to put in your rucksack in case you wand to photograph some alpine flowers with an mountain in the background, it might be a useful tool
for that use, i will go for an arca Fline 69 metric and digital lenses, but that's a personal preference... the HTS give you a reflex viewfinder...
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Richard,
I don't know if you came across these, but if not, maybe you'll get something from them:
The Sheimpflug Principle (http://doug.kerr.home.att.net/pumpkin/Scheimpflug.pdf)
Article on L.L. main site (http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/focusing-ts.shtml)
Rgds,
Dale
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Richard,
I don't know if you came across these, but if not, maybe you'll get something from them:
The Sheimpflug Principle (http://doug.kerr.home.att.net/pumpkin/Scheimpflug.pdf)
Article on L.L. main site (http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/focusing-ts.shtml)
Rgds,
Dale
Thanks Dick, elf and Dale. I have now got lots of information to wade through and who knows some of it may stick! Thanks again for your help and advice.
Regards
Richard