Using a Wooden Field Camera Part 2

How to use the movements, the lens and inserting the film

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• wooden
• fieldcamera
• Ebonycamera
• largeformatphotography

[hotbedsophie]

hello，have a quick question, how do you rotate the focusing glass so you can take some vertical pictures？

[ZoneIII]

Nice camera and nice video but I have two comments. First, you are trying to cover too much information in such a short video. I'm planning to make a series of videos on camera movements. Second, rear shift has no use in panoramic photography. That's not what it's used for.

[randytate]

@theerak The lens covers more area than the film. So you can shift the lens to capture a different portion of its coverage. But "Why?" you ask? Shift can correct perspective and here's an example.

Imagine photographing a large building, you're at ground level and tilting the camera upward making the building appear to lean back. If you point the camera straight at the building, it crops the top off. But shifting the lens upward moves the top back into frame & the building doesn't lean back.

[theerak]

Great video Bruce... thanks very much. One thing I don't understand about bellows cameras is why you would off-set the center of the film from the center of the lens? Up,Down,Side or Tilt. can you explain to me under what circumstances you would need to do this and what results you get when you do? Perhaps there's a good web-site lesson out there that I've just not found?

Thanks very much

Jeff

[bobmccarthy11]

Nice effort,

But if you don't remove the darkslide completely, and reverse it so its "black" out, you will have many either double (or more I suppose) exposures or "no" exposures on your sheet film.

bob