It's funny how photographs like this seem to be shot from - let's say - 3-4 meters above the ground. A closer look at the windows and doors however, will reveal, that it was taken from the ground (5 feet above). I actually think it's not quite right to totally "correct" the non parallelle lines. It just doesn't feels right :-)
Jens Bladt mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hjem.get2net.dk/bladt -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: John Francis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 8. marts 2005 19:46 Til: [email protected] Emne: Re: Shift lens 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.
