New shooter questions

[ki6mf]

The thing to watch out for in the front tilt, the Scheinpflug method. is that the plane nearest to your camera is tilted usually towards the subject. Anything in the immediate foreground will stick up our to the tilted focus. Its best to keep the for ground clear of tall objects if you use this method.

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Its best to shoot and adjust many times to fine tune your subject. Lack of Polaroid film makes this harder.

[Thalmees]

Hello - first post.

3) When tilting the lens forward for increased DOF, how do you know what tilt is appropriate? Do you just kind of eyeball the tilt and imagine the effect on the foreground plane of focus?

Do you think about replacing the Norma rear standard with another Sinar F rear standard ?
If you did so, you’ll be able to use the micrometer incorporated in the F standard to calculate for Tilt/Swing angle. Ground glass screen should be an original Sinar or exact copy. Then to use that angle on the front or rear standard as you wish.
Hope you find this helpful.

[Robert Oliver]

try to readjust the focus so that foreground and background subject are in focus (or at least close) then stop down to expand your depth of field. You can see the depth of field change on the ground glass as you stop down. Of course, it gets hard to see when you stop down so I like to watch the ground glass as I stop down. Not easy when you are using a long lens..

Thanks to all for your answers. To followup, I just tried the tilt focus thing. When I focus on the mountains, I can then tilt the lens forward and see the foreground come into focus. However, the mountains then become way out of focus. If I then refocus the mountains, the foreground then goes out again. I'm finding it very difficult to get both in focus with the lens wide open.

Should I be trying to focus in dim light with the lens stopped down to the taking aperture or am I doing something else wrong?

Thanks.