Comments on: Large Format Photography with Nikon D800

By: Mike Penney

Mike Penney — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 23:35:00 +0000

this is all fine until you need a wide angle view…. then you are back to shorter 35mm type lenses… better to go with tilt shift lenses made for the camera or buy into a real digital set up for a rail camera from phase one, leaf, or other fine company at twice the price of a car… OR JUST USE FILM…

By: Adam Milton

Adam Milton — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 18:35:00 +0000

The benefit of using a DSLR with a bellows with adjustable standards is really only limited to product, especially food, and architecture photography. There area few tilt/shift lenses on the market, but to my knowledge, none of them allow for the lens to be tilted and swung at the same time, you can only do one or the other. In other words, you can’t tilt the lens vertically and horizontally, you have to pick one. The only time you would really ever use that is shooting architecture though, so it’s not really that big of a deal.

You get a shallow depth of field by tilting the lens, effectively moving the plane of focus, which is normally perpendicular to the sensor. When you tilt, you can have both depth of field and the background out of focus, so you can shoot f/8 and still blur the background, make sense? In food photography this allows the entire dish to be in focus, yet blur the background. If you just shot this with a large aperture, you would lose focus on the front and back of the dish.

Most of the time that is just fine though, so the tilt/shift is really only necessary for commercial applications.

By: Philipp

Philipp — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 21:12:00 +0000

“…even more shallower depth of field.” -> I don’t think so. Why should it?

By: Gyulai Zoltan

Gyulai Zoltan — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 19:31:00 +0000

this is just pure self-marketing BS. he just got a very low resolution image on a high res sensor, a TS telephoto lens of mediocre speed. absolutely useless, but looks good. its the photography equivalent of viagra light: looks good on the beach but its not good enough for (censored word)

By: Brandon Magpantay

Brandon Magpantay — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 18:13:00 +0000

“The benefit with using a large format lens is that it has a large sensor coverage, providing a greater range for tilting and shifting, as well as better perspective control and even more shallower depth of field.”