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Equipment & Techniques => Cameras, Lenses and Shooting gear => Topic started by: keith_cooper on June 09, 2009, 09:15:26 am

Title: Focus with tilt
Post by: keith_cooper on June 09, 2009, 09:15:26 am

I've been a bit held up by weather and 'real paying work' in testing my new TS-E17 - I took the chance to finish writing up a short article on focusing when using tilt.

Using tilt on a lens (http://www.northlight-images.co.uk/article_pages/using_tilt.html)

It's got copies of the tilt tables I keep in my bag and the spreadsheet used to create them (inspired by Harold Merklinger's work)

I've noticed that while a lot of people grasp using shift quite easily, the concept of tilting the lens leaves a lot of people just hoping for the best, and twiddling lens settings.

This is the way I generally approach using tilt (as ever, there are others) but I'm hoping the article and examples help clarify the subject for a few more people...

(http://www.northlight-images.co.uk/content_images/using_tilt/test_setup_24.jpg)
One of my experimental set-ups - carried out when left alone in the house ;-)

Title: Focus with tilt
Post by: rethmeier on June 12, 2009, 03:25:04 am

Seriously,
tilt on the 24TSE is already hard to do.

On the 17TSE it would be even harder to see through the viewfinder.

Tethered would be the only way.

Best,

Willem.

Title: Focus with tilt
Post by: keith_cooper on June 12, 2009, 03:59:07 am

Quote from: rethmeier

Tethered would be the only way.

Very true, the effect is difficult to see with the 17mm

However I found that in the example included in the article, liveview at x10 was fine on the 1Ds3 + TS-E 17mm.

It helped for this, that the room was relatively dimly lit and that I had my reading glasses to hand :-)