FW: shift

[James Romeo <jromeo@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: jromeo@xxxxxxxxxxx
To: kathjeff@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: shift
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 23:58:29 -0500

Jeff   This makes sense You put it well. I think in this talk some of us misinterperted the other. A frind of mine has put togather a camera using a Brooks with a 6x12 back he mounted off center  he than can reverse the back for a great shift.                                         Is my fixed 135 Noblex like the 120 up?  Talking about shift I have a old 8X10 wide angle camera made by Korona it has a shift of 4 inches. up or down. The were called skyscraper's . I use Gundlach Rader extreme WA f16 lens on it. Its older than I and I am in my later 60's. The lens covers for most of the large shift. I have made some of my best platinum's from negs from it. Take care James
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From: kathjeff@xxxxxxxxxxx
To: jromeo@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: shift
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 17:31:05 -0800

James 
 
The Noblex 150 (120 film) has a fixed lens that has about a 2-3 mm up 
shift that cannot be adjusted on the basic camera.  Therefore you always 
get more sky than foreground.  By inverting the camera, that 2-3mm shift 
is now down. 
You cannot compensate for that with the level camera on a tripod no 
matter how far you lower it. 
The same is true of the Roundshot 35/35S.  It has a 3mm shift upwards 
(Fixed).  I have used the Bogen horizontal arm to invert the camera, so 
when I'm up on a mountain top, I want the camera to be completely level, 
but looking down. 
I have shot the Noblex and Roundshot from the top of the Golden Gate 
Bridge towers.  The 35/35S Roundshot had to be inverted, so the 3mm 
shift was looking down.  I have some examples of shots with the camera 
inverted and right side up.  Its an extreme difference.  A difference 
that could not be made by raising or lowering the tripod, wether its 
five inches off the ground or 5 feet off the ground. 
I'm now using the Super 35 Roundshot with shift and wedge, so I no 
longer need to invert the camera. 
Jeff