29 May
2007
29 May
'07
5:15 p.m.
Tony Duell wrote...
I'm suprised about the 90mm.. Normally thsee things are wide angle.
I hadn't eralised they were available for DSLRs. I've seen them for
normal 35mm flim SLRs -- in fact I did consider buying a PC-Nikkor (PC =
Perspective Control -- i.e. tilt and shift) for my Nikon F. But then I
relaised a large-format camera was about the same price...
-tony
The right way to get better depth of field for
oblique shots is to tilt
the lens (!).
[...]
The problem is that no digital camera has a tilting front.
In the interests of completeness, I should say that this isn't strictly
speaking true. Canon make EOS mount tilt/shift lenses, which will work on
any of their digital SLRs (three of them, 24, 45 and 90mm IIRC.) In fact,