I currently have two old view cameras. One is a 4x5 with lots of front movements - rise, shift, tilt, swing. While "Scheimpflug" remains a difficult spelling exercise and the math/geometry behind me continues to give me headaches (I'm seriously math challenged...) with intuition, practice, observation and some reading, I came to a practical understanding of front tilt and swing and of the angles needed.
My second camera, however, is an early 20th century 8x10 that does not feature as many movements. I'm essentially limited to front rise and rear tilt/swing. And that rear tilt/swing is precisely what I cannot figure out - there must be something counter intuitive about them, as I never seem to find a solution that really works.
Could you prime me about the use of these reat movements? Not in math/geometry terms that will only confuse me, but in terms of general strategies that will allow me to change the plane of focus as I want. I'm quite ready to fiddle a bit to find the right angle, but right now I don't even think I'm doing the right things with these nice brass gears.
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