Just to be precise about things, I must correct Ron. You want the three planes he mentioned to intersect in a line, not a point.
Just to be precise about things, I must correct Ron. You want the three planes he mentioned to intersect in a line, not a point.
To great many LF photography, Scheimplug rule is the only rule they know of. But in fact, the popular Scheimflug rule a lone is not good enough the find the ri ght focus.
Scheimflug had a much neglected Scheimflug Second rule; and thanks to the ef fort of Harold Merklinger, this rule has being rediscovered and described in det ail in his book "Focusing the View Camera" as The Hinge Rule. It stated that th e front focal plane, the plane of sharp focus and the parellel to to film lens p lane must intersect at a Hinge line. With this Hinge rule, or Scheimflug Second Rule, focusing view camera becomes qu ick and simple, no more eyeballing, try and error. He wrote" in one outing,,, I had taken four photographs allwith different focus settings and in two locations in the space of eight minutes. That is 2 minutes per picture, vs 20-30 minute s per picture set up time by conventional method
You will do your self a great favour by BUYING THE BOOK. Forget about get the info from Harold's web page. Do you think he gave away all the info to sell the books ?
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