I am an amateur film photographer. I have had my own darkroom in my house for 20 years and have always been a dedicated film user. I have just made the leap this week to LF, having purchased a 4x5 field camera. I am learning tilt, shift, etc (Thanks LF Forum and YouTube).

For years I have shot a fully manual medium format camera so I use and understand Depth of Field. In the last few weeks, I have read numerous articles about Large Format cameras and the use of tilt for landscape shots to bring fore and background into focus. My question is this: Why not just use DOF of the large format lens and just leave the Large Format camera “zeroed out”, ie - no tilt? Setting it on f64 will surely give sharp detail from foreground to background in the scene.

Thanks for the input.

Charlie