David Oswald mused:
>
> I just noticed a 28mm Pentax shift lens on eBay. I've always wondered
> about this lens (but not enough to shell out the cash). It seems that
> nowadays, in the digital age, a shift lens *may* be one of those things
> that has become obsolete. Are they still getting use like they did
> "back in the day"?
>
> Just curious...
You can pretty much deal with perspective correction in Photoshop,
so unless you take a lot of architectural shots it's hard to justify
the price you'd probably have to pay for such a lens (and while it
is a pretty good general-purpose wide-angle lens as well, it's also
quite large and heavy).
Digital correction won't look quite as good as optical correction
on a sufficiently large print, but there again it works at any
focal length.
<http://jfwaf.com/PDML/images/PDML10.jpg>
is a shot from our recent photo-outing where a shift lens (and a
film body) would have been in their element. This shot was taken
at 16mm (pretty much equivalent to that 28mm on a full-frame body),
and required some significant correction.
