On Sat, 16 Jan 1999 09:26, Jan Steinman <jans@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Obligatory OM content: I've been having fun with a 35 shift doing nature
>photography. Most people think of it as a "niche" lens for architecture,
>but it does wonders for waterfalls, trees, or anything with straight lines
>that aren't parallel to the film plane.
This note is interesting to me. I was in NY during the New Years holidays
and there were lots of opportunities to take pictures of tall buildings
(Trump Tower, St. Patrick's Cathedral, Empire State Bldg, etc.) and I wish
I had a shift lens to use.
But I am most curious about Jan's last sentence: "straight lines that
aren't parallel to the film plane". What does this mean? When I think
of architecture photo, all the lines are parallel to the film plane --
either horizontal or most likely vertical. But when Jan said that the
shift lens "does wonders for ... lines that aren't parallel to the film
plane", I think of lines that are perpendicular to (i.e., going away from)
the photographer. So how does a shift lens help in this case? Or am I
just not seeing it? If there are enough interesting uses for a shift
lens, I may buy one to experiment with someday.
-Dan
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