This video presents the best tutorial on properly focusing the view camera that I have come across: https://video.search.yahoo.com/searc...f&action=click

Take a look at image #27 in the salt print gallery (The Dunsmuir House) on my website. If you just focus on the house (the main subject) then the background trees will be out of focus. Conversely, if you focus on the trees, then the house will be out of focus. This image was taken with an 8x10 base-tilt camera so what I did was tilt for the top of the furthest tree and then focus for the house (maybe the immediate grass foreground, I don't recall), then re-tilt for the tree and refocus for the near. Repeat that until both are in focus simultaneously and stop down for the middle. So tilt for the far, focus for the near, re-tilt for the far, refocus for the near and stop down for the middle. I believe that is how it goes for base tilt cameras and opposite for axial tilt cameras.

Thomas