Ulophot
23-Jul-2017, 12:13
This seems to be the right place to ask a question that occurred to me recently for the first time, surprisingly enough after more than four decades of familiarity with large format: when was the first tilt lens and practice/discussion of reorienting the plane of sharp focus?
I tried looking for this in my own books and on the web to no avail. I don't recall having seen it mentioned in any history, but that decidedly does not preclude having come across it. What I found the other day was the first "adjustable lens" camera by one ___________ Lewis (see what I mean?) in 1846. However, I found a photograph of his camera and the adjustment appeared to be only moving the lens to focus it.
Undoubtedly, one of the experts here will know; perhaps someone even has one of the cameras that started it. How it may have come about may be interesting to speculate, whether it came after a rising front or before, or, perhaps, actually started with a back tilt, or even swing. I'll be interested in learning.
I tried looking for this in my own books and on the web to no avail. I don't recall having seen it mentioned in any history, but that decidedly does not preclude having come across it. What I found the other day was the first "adjustable lens" camera by one ___________ Lewis (see what I mean?) in 1846. However, I found a photograph of his camera and the adjustment appeared to be only moving the lens to focus it.
Undoubtedly, one of the experts here will know; perhaps someone even has one of the cameras that started it. How it may have come about may be interesting to speculate, whether it came after a rising front or before, or, perhaps, actually started with a back tilt, or even swing. I'll be interested in learning.