Tom Percival
9-Nov-2000, 20:34
Hopefully, someone out there might give me a hint as to what is happening with m y Toyo 45c. Recently two situations presented themselves when photographing two interiors for clients.
The first, was detail shot of mosaic tile work in a bathroom, the top and bo th sides were perfectly square and parallel to the edge of the frame. However at the very bottom, say the last half an inch or so, the last row of tiles(which s hould also have been square and parallel) skewed off the bottom, left side of th e frame(the right side was relatively in the right place).
The second, was an odd situation. The client wanted an exagerated view of a very tall home with a perspective from the floor about ten feet in front of the camera to the ceiling that was almost directly overhead. Tilting the camera, ga ve only two spots which to level the camera which steps on either side of a ten foot waterfall at the bottom of the frame. As distorted as everything was in the frame it did not become noticable until the film returned from the lab, that th e peak of the ceiling was tilted to the right of the center of the frame by a co uple of degrees(or about identical to the tilt of the tile in the bathroom.)
I had attempted to align the standards on the camera after the tile inciden t, obviously to no avail. It can not be the lens, the tiles were shot with a 90m m f/6.8 Rodenstock and the home/waterfall was shot with a 65mm f/8(?) Schneider and different lens boards. The tripod was leveled and at least with the tiles sh ot the camera spirit level was level. I can't remember if I checked for level at the home/waterfall shot(probably not.)
What doesn't click in my mind is that (specifically in the tile shot) how c ould all three sides square and parallel and the fourth be so far off. If the ca mera was out of square, wouldn't two of the sides have to be out of alignment at the same time?
If someone has an idea or needs more information I did not provide, please contact me. I am having to shovel out several hundred dollars to digitally fix t he home/waterfall shot(of course the client just had to pick that one.) The prob lem is most apparent with the tiles shot and I could be emailed if that would he lp clarify the problem. Thank you.
Tom Percival envisionphoto@yahoo.com
The first, was detail shot of mosaic tile work in a bathroom, the top and bo th sides were perfectly square and parallel to the edge of the frame. However at the very bottom, say the last half an inch or so, the last row of tiles(which s hould also have been square and parallel) skewed off the bottom, left side of th e frame(the right side was relatively in the right place).
The second, was an odd situation. The client wanted an exagerated view of a very tall home with a perspective from the floor about ten feet in front of the camera to the ceiling that was almost directly overhead. Tilting the camera, ga ve only two spots which to level the camera which steps on either side of a ten foot waterfall at the bottom of the frame. As distorted as everything was in the frame it did not become noticable until the film returned from the lab, that th e peak of the ceiling was tilted to the right of the center of the frame by a co uple of degrees(or about identical to the tilt of the tile in the bathroom.)
I had attempted to align the standards on the camera after the tile inciden t, obviously to no avail. It can not be the lens, the tiles were shot with a 90m m f/6.8 Rodenstock and the home/waterfall was shot with a 65mm f/8(?) Schneider and different lens boards. The tripod was leveled and at least with the tiles sh ot the camera spirit level was level. I can't remember if I checked for level at the home/waterfall shot(probably not.)
What doesn't click in my mind is that (specifically in the tile shot) how c ould all three sides square and parallel and the fourth be so far off. If the ca mera was out of square, wouldn't two of the sides have to be out of alignment at the same time?
If someone has an idea or needs more information I did not provide, please contact me. I am having to shovel out several hundred dollars to digitally fix t he home/waterfall shot(of course the client just had to pick that one.) The prob lem is most apparent with the tiles shot and I could be emailed if that would he lp clarify the problem. Thank you.
Tom Percival envisionphoto@yahoo.com