The rising front ie Adams

[James Romeo <jromeo@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Camera and Lens" Ansel Adams page 174  " THE RISING FRONT is the most common adjustment in standard cameras. In view cameras the rising front will allow sufficient movement to displace the lens axis about 1/2 the largest dimension of the negative,ie about 2-1/3 inches with a 4x5 negative , but in most cases the movement is less.It is used primarily with architectural work,where more of the building height can be brought into the field of the negative ( without up-tilting the camera ). If the rising frount at maximum position is not sufficient to show the top of the building,the camera may be moved to a greated distance ,or the camera is up-tilted and tilting  and the tilting back is used.																																																			 I go to my frount window with my Hasselblad and a 50mm lens. I place the camera on the window sill I see the 6 stories building from the top to a lot of East 78th st. I now go out on the fire escape take off the waste level finder and put on!
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 prism I now put the camera to my eye I now have little of East 78thst but I now have water towers on the top of building's 5 blocks away.Bolth are a form of croping.   James Romeo