This thought comes from Bob Monaghan: The larger the neg the more versatility you gain. Feel free to use your 6x6 or 6x7 camera as a virtual 6x4.5.
You can change, to a limited degree, some of the characteristics of your image by "shifting" the camera to give the same effect as shift the lens on a LF body. The principle is this: You don't have to keep the subject in the center. By moving a horizontal subject to the top or bottom of the finder, by adjusting the position/angle of the camera, you can add some control of vertical lines. Do the same with respect to vertical subjets. Shift them to the right/left for line controls. The loss you have to consider is the loss of lens sharpness toward the edges of your medium. But the larger the neg, the less the loss, and the more valuable the versatility. It's not exactly the same as a shift lens, but still useful. Hope this is helpful, Collin - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
