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Any 24-PC users?
- Thread starter Chris C
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kit laughlin
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Chris, re. focus on D300: I suggest you try it for yourself. I just had a play then; using the standard finder. Shift, obviously, is even easier to see effects of than the D3 (with the finder grid lines enabled; the D3 does not have this option.
Re. Scheimpflug: you can see this effect clearly, too, but IMHO, this is the one you will want to test for yourself. "Clear" to me might be "mud" to you.
The alternative is to use Live View (which I have no experience in), but which does allow (from memory near-pixel or pixel level magnification. Good luck.
Re. Scheimpflug: you can see this effect clearly, too, but IMHO, this is the one you will want to test for yourself. "Clear" to me might be "mud" to you.
The alternative is to use Live View (which I have no experience in), but which does allow (from memory near-pixel or pixel level magnification. Good luck.
Kit - Thank you, all feedback helps. I don't have access to the lens to try the combination with a D300 but they suggest themselves as a wonderful landscape combination [that's urban, post-industrial, and more traditional]. I will need to confirm that focusing is comfortable for me, and I would need the tilt axis rotated, but the feedback within this thread has been very useful.
I notice that Luminous Landscape plan to review the lens, I suspect the issue of whether there is a way for users to swop the tilt axis 'in the field' will be well covered. For those of us who photograph landscapes and buildings, in both landscape and portrait modes; the tilt axis will be incorrectly set in the wrong plane 50% of the time - which does not sound like a good design feature to me.
Thanks to everyone who contributed to this thread on what for most people is a specialist lens.
................... Chris
I notice that Luminous Landscape plan to review the lens, I suspect the issue of whether there is a way for users to swop the tilt axis 'in the field' will be well covered. For those of us who photograph landscapes and buildings, in both landscape and portrait modes; the tilt axis will be incorrectly set in the wrong plane 50% of the time - which does not sound like a good design feature to me.
Thanks to everyone who contributed to this thread on what for most people is a specialist lens.
................... Chris