Hi, John! Yes - the modern, digital replacement for the rising/tilting lens board of a view camera! Where once we contrived to have the plane of the object being photographed, the plane of the lens center, and the film plane all intersect in a single line, we can now correct in the digital darkroom. What it loses in visual "reality", it makes up in precise illustration of the dial...
Dave On Sat, 6 Oct 2001, John Carmichael wrote: > I'm sure you all have had problems photographing sundial faces because > you are not able to get your camara centered directly over the center > of the dial face. ..> > But I discovered that by using digital editing, you can stretch or > compress a photo so that it appears that camara was directly over the > dial! I discovered this while using the "perspective" and "distort" > features of Adobe Photo Delux. > > I think this is a wonderful tool for those of us who photograph > sundials. > > Website: <http://www.sundialsculptures.com>
