[OFB Cafe] Tilt/Shift Lens

[Timothy Butler]

Hi everyone,

	First of, thanks, everyone for the thoughts on this!

On Jul 24, 2008, at 5:32 PM, dep wrote:
> they were of course every lens on a cut-film camera -- either a press
> canera or a view -- and they're fine for their specialized purposes,  
> which
> are to correct perspective distortion and to alter the plane of focus.
> other than that, though, they're just lenses.

	Hmm... thanks, dep. I've been intrigued by the "LensBaby" variety  
(the one Wolfi referred to) for some time because of the interesting  
focusing properties they seem to get, but then again I am not sure how  
useful it would be throughout the course of normal picture taking.

	I probably will stick with something less odd. Perhaps that telescope  
as a lens you mentioned.

> now that pictures work and birds is the apparent theme, this out my  
> kitchen
> door, through two panes of glass. image obviously scaled way down.

	Very nice picture! Thanks, for sharing.

	-Tim

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