Today I finally got around to trying a technique I've been meaning to play around with. I used my digital back with an adapter on my P2, set up and composed a still life on the ground glass, and then made a series of digital exposures of it in pieces using the rise, fall and shift on the rear standard. Once everything was stitched together (which took a while), I ended up with an image with an effective sensor size of about 3.2x3.5 inches, although I ended up cropping in significantly from there to get my final composition (went from ~200MP to ~100MP in cropping). So I'm not exactly using the full capabilities of the 4x5 camera, but I'm getting a lot closer than I've ever been with a digital camera. The biggest limiting factor is just how much movement I can get out of the bellows, since trying to translate the center of the frame out to the edges is a pretty extreme movement, and doubly so if I used any movements to begin with. I might get a sliding adapter at some point to give me some more flexibility on that front. I tried to do everything I could with front standard movements so I'd still have room to move around on the rear standard. And of course I have to avoid using tilt or swing at the top of the rear standard in order for my movements to stay in the same image plane, but if I really need to I can use the coarse tilt, since the rise/fall and shift dials are above it.
Here's the final composition in full size: https://www.flickr.com/photos/tehbie...posted-public/
Just ignore the horrifically posterized preview image Flickr made. The download sizes all seem to be pretty decent though. I'll attach some very down-rezed versions of the original stitched image and the final composition here, too.
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