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Re: Matching lenses (was: Re: HTML help)


  • From: erker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Greg Erker)
  • Subject: Re: Matching lenses (was: Re: HTML help)
  • Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 11:29:16 -0600

>One drawback I didn't mention --- I now have 3 lens
>matched pairs and four lenses that don't match well.
>I can't re-use the results from this time, I have to
>re-shoot those four when/if I want to try matching
>with future lenses. Now, I suppose if I had put marks
>on the deck where the tripod legs go, and measured
>the height of the tripod when I had it set up.......

  Well, 35mm film is pretty cheap...

  But if the buildings are quite far
away then a foot or two difference in
camera location and height won't make
a significant change in image size.
Say 2ft in 1000ft = 0.2%. A bigger
problem if they are only 200ft away.

  Better just reshoot with them :)

Greg