Tilt-shift Lens
That's right! I was thinking of tilting, shifting, and rotating the planes at the same time, which you need a view camera to do.
Yes, insane DOF is essential and focus is not always at infinity because there are things closer like rocks, sticks, flowers, beer cans and bushes and streams etc. In the case of my 10-20mm, vertically, often my little toes and tripod leg.
Tilting the lense will bring near and far objects into better focus and produce a more acceptable DOF and allow a larger aperture. With the larger aperture faster shutter speeds can be used limiting uncontrolled motion (blurred objects from wind).
I have to look into the benefits of shifting.
I think I'm getting into something, or times and lighting that is fractional. My favorite photos are right at, and a little beyond sunset, multiple exposures (sometimes totalling nearly 2 minutes) at f38 and iso 100.
Ideally I'd like to go to using a graduated neutral density filter, iso 50 and small aperture (f22+). The wind is "blowing" it. ( :biglaugh: )
the wind conditions though? i don't understand, fill me in!
Fine lenses but not an answer to dealing with wind.
IMO, unless you need to use small format, you might as well be shooting large format if you need tilts or shifts. view cameras can tilt AND shift at the same time, small format T/S lenses can't.
Please bear with me, I love telling this story;
Having developed myself into a somewhat streamlined, overweight, old man, the usual scenario consists of me loading up with the camera with the lense attached, a filter, a filter case, my cable release, my carbon fibre tripod, a canteen full of water and a clip-on watch with a sweep second hand, my old man glasses and a lense tissue in my wallet. I hike up some stupid gravelly, scree covered steep-pass hill to another just like it and sometimes one other one just to make me feel "alive." Of course I stop for a smoke every chance I get. I wait one to two hours and setup my shot series and go sit on a rock and have a smoke or two. During all this the air is as dead still as inside someone's mouth and I'm lathered in sweat like a little burro that's been carrying a fat-round priest to a mission. When the sun starts to set the wind can gust maybe 60 mph. Sometimes it just blows hard without a break. My life is too complicated to attach the camera bag/backpack (I'd have to go back to the truck and get it) securely to the tripod.
I should'a just said I've tried it and it don't work for me.
Besides, I think this type of solution would help me produce what I've been working on and I call, Totally Integrated Technically Solved, or TITS, photos. If there ever is a day where wind is not a factor I'll be prepared.
The coolest thing is that if I get the Nikon lense I have justification to dump the d80 and get a d2x-or whatever it is...
A wicked plan is developing.
Looking at the prices on those lenses, they're so cheap!
I'd love to have the control of tilt and shift for portrait shooting.
They're cheap enough for me to try out... Next month though.
I'd love to have the control of tilt and shift for portrait shooting.
looks like i've got more reading to do than expected!
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and by no i meant yes, dummy moment
dangit just read what abraxas wrote, thats what i meant. . . . just without explaining. holy cow i cannot figure out a way to get this thought out.
Never used a shift lens but I so much want the Canon 24mm
Forgive me for being obtuse, but how is T/S going to combat any of those problems?
IMO, unless you need to use small format, you might as well be shooting large format if you need tilts or shifts. view cameras can tilt AND shift at the same time, small format T/S lenses can't.
by using the shift you can gain more DOF with the same aperture
page 23 explains it in more detail http://software.canon-europe.com/files/documents/EF_Lens_Work_Book_3_EN.pdf
I'm thinking T/S to combat high and gusting wind conditions in landscapes and maintain depth of field while using higher iso and faster shutter speeds. Possibly in combination with using ND filters. I'm just tired of losing shots to the wind in long exposures. Make sense?- Ideas?
That's what I've been thinking. I can do pretty good snapping between gusts, but with the long shutter speeds, and especially multiple exposures I lose too often.
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