FW: Tilt lens for panoramic

[Mike Sinclair <sinclair@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Interesting..

How much does the wedge tilt?

Doesn't the wedge act as a prism, causing chromatic dispersion?

-Mike-


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Willem-Jan Markerink [SMTP:w.j.markerink@xxxxx]
> Sent:	Saturday, September 26, 1998 5:51 PM
> 
> On 26 Sep 98 at 5:25, Alan Zinn wrote:
> 
> > When you say "tilt" don't you mean "shift"?  you move the lens up and
> down
> > parallel to the picture plane no?  If you want a simple "tilt" that
> works on
> > any lens buy a wedge prism from Edmunds Scientific.  I have one in a
> > cardboard "universal" ,rubberbands and foam, mount that I slip over the
> > front of an SLR lens. it gives the effect of looking up or down while
> the
> > camera remains level to the horizon.
> 
> Does this work on swing-lens pan cameras as well?
> Does one need as much 'wedge' as is needed for the degree of tilt, or 
> is the optical formula more complex?
> (respective refraction indexes of lens and wedge?)
> 
>  
> 
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> 
> Willem-Jan Markerink
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