[OM] Re: 35mm f2.8 Shift

[AG Schnozz]

> One might guess the lens is more tele-centric than most just
> because it has to sit further away from "film" plane to allow
> space for shift mechanism and it has a large exit pupil for
> shifting.

Good point.  It is recessed quite a ways.

> But shifted the rays by definition are not telecentric, so it
> would be interesting to look at the light dropp off shifted
> when photographing a white wall say.

Other than the initial dropoff it stays pretty even all the way
to the extremes.  Suprising, actually, that there is little
vignetting past the the center position.

AG

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