Crazy Movements of View Cameras

[LabRat]

Yes and no...

For landscape use, not much movements need to be applied, but in a commercial studio with large multi-plane objects (say, a washing machine shot from an oblique high and side angle etc) after applying correction for multiple different planes, longer FL, and in a severe fall where (yaw starts showing it's ugly head), it's not unusual to take a look at the camera after set-up and see it twisted into an origami shape for the final shot... And sometimes in architecture shots (with complex planes) that the camera has to be tilted up and corrected later will twist up the camera pretty good...

Never say never...

Steve K

[neil poulsen]

I think it helps attract attention to (my) listings on EBay.

[John Layton]

[Luis-F-S]

By and large, that's hype. If you got an image from those contortions, it'd be amazing. IMO.

++1 Plus I've always thought they're made by individuals with none or for those with no view camera knowledge.

[Cor]

So nice John, and it's a pity your camera never "made" it..but surely in the first image the light never reaches the ground glass ?

Best,

Cor

[Doremus Scudder]

Hi Doremus,

Why don't you show us the image that resulted from those movements?

- Leigh

Hi Leigh,

I looked to find the negative here in Vienna, but, alas, it's in my Oregon darkroom waiting for me to get back and print it. I won't be there till June... It was a building façade with windows. I had to move myself way off-center in order to avoid my own reflection in the windows; that's why all the shift. The amount of front rise I used was a bit more than usual for me too, as I wanted to include details up high. If this thread is still active when I get to my neg, I'll post the image.

Best

Doremus

[John Layton]

Thanks Cor! In another life the camera would be wildly successful! In the meantime...I'm still waiting for the light to bend - having been told by a trusted friend that with just a bit of patience (preferably augmented by a nip bourbon and/or a pint of Guiness) - that it will happen! (thank goodness for trusted friends!)
Happy Trails,
John

[Jerry Bodine]

Might a fisheye lens be helpful? No idea what the coverage of those things is and could NOT care less.

[rdenney]

Might a fisheye lens be helpful? No idea what the coverage of those things is and could NOT care less.

No, you need that elusive 800mm Super Angulon XL.

(I suspect the photos are like those of passenger cars on race tracks--if they can do extreme things, they won't be a constraint when doing normal things.)

Rick "who has used some fairly extreme tilts with long lenses and close focus distances, such as for the product photography many of those rail cameras were made for" Denney

[xkaes]

Might a fisheye lens be helpful? No idea what the coverage of those things is and could NOT care less.

A fisheye lens sees 180 degree of the subject, but behind the lens it does not project it 180 degrees.