Am I the only one who hates tilt shift use in portraits?

[destrekor]

Can you explain this mild panorama stuff you're talking about? Do you mean you move the lens, and then the edges of the two photos will match up geometrically?

A week or so ago, I found a great page that showed this effect of a Tilt-Shift (Perspective Control) lens.
Alas, I could not find it again, but here are two that should help:
http://bayimages.net/blog/articles/...hift-lenses-to-create-high-resolution-images/
http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/tilt-shift-lenses1.htm

In short - it's not actually the best approach to obtaining a panorama, but it's a great "bonus feature" of the lens. Moving the sensor itself in relation to the outside world is actually a better approach, I think. The different ways you go about it have different resulting geometries, that may or may not be desired, and will have an impact on the ease of stitching in post-process.

I say all this without ever having attempted a good panoramic photo. I did JUST get my DSLR yesterday - and it would have been a miserable nightmare on 35mm in comparison.


BTW, as you can see in the links, a more typical approach to "panoramic" use of a T-S/PC lens, is not creating a wider panorama, rather, creating a more squared image. It is sort of a cumbersome approach to creating a high-pixel image to rival larger sensors/film (medium or large formats). I'd like to pick up such a lens, and that's one use I'd specifically use it for, but not the only/main reason.