Premium Members chris fawcett Posted June 3, 2009 Premium Members Report Share Posted June 3, 2009 Hi All, I've been too busy to post much recently, but had to share this one with you all. I turned up for a shoot in NYC today. It was all architectural interiors, and I was expecting a simple, if demanding day. When the camera turns up, it's a reasonable HD camera tricked out with the ubiquitous 35 mm lens adaptor, and get this—a perspective correction lens! For architecture, right? LMFAO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Morgan Moore Posted June 11, 2009 Report Share Posted June 11, 2009 Hi All, I've been too busy to post much recently, but had to share this one with you all. I turned up for a shoot in NYC today. It was all architectural interiors, and I was expecting a simple, if demanding day. When the camera turns up, it's a reasonable HD camera tricked out with the ubiquitous 35 mm lens adaptor, and get this—a perspective correction lens! For architecture, right? LMFAO As a professional stills shooter and a steadi newb a PC lens makes perfect sence to me ignoring any jitter or FF issues Keeping the lens perpendicular to the ground keeps the buildings standing straight the PC is then used to adjust the headroom of the shot I find a tilted pan (sticks or steadi) around a building/room with all those leaning verticals changing during the pan most unnapealing very sensible imo S Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Members Eric Fletcher S.O.C. Posted June 11, 2009 Premium Members Report Share Posted June 11, 2009 As a professional stills shooter and a steadi newb a PC lens makes perfect sence to me ignoring any jitter or FF issues Keeping the lens perpendicular to the ground keeps the buildings standing straight the PC is then used to adjust the headroom of the shot I find a tilted pan (sticks or steadi) around a building/room with all those leaning verticals changing during the pan most unnapealing very sensible imo Yet impractical and virtually impossible ESPECIALLY since the camera describes an arc as you tilt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Morgan Moore Posted June 12, 2009 Report Share Posted June 12, 2009 (edited) Yet impractical and virtually impossible ESPECIALLY since the camera describes an arc as you tilt Im being unclear If you have the rig on - everything horizontal - and a conventional wide lens you frame a shot of the big hotel foyer (or whatever) Your shot will contain too much floor and not enough height to show the room properly You must tilt the rig up to create a pleasing composition - ie one where the elements of the image fill the frame - BUT you now have leaning verticals in the composition and a tilted rig You then have to operate tilted - horrid And if you pan all the uprights in the shot lean - even more horrid If you slap on a PC lens you keep the rig flat and use upshift to compose a pleasant shot that is easy to operate - Conversly if you want to do a full length walkie of someone who is the same height as you get the same problem With a flat rig sitting above waist height and conventional lens you must tilt forward to frame them head to foot - giving them a big head, small feet and losing verticals in the composition With a little lens PC down shift you can create a pleasing composition and keep the rig flat At 6'5 Im taller than most people and find a little downshift is very helpful to operating The nikkor 28/3.5 PC manual lens is the one to test - it has many attributes like a non click Iris and great focus that make it moddable for use with a Steadicam http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perspective_control_lens S Edited June 12, 2009 by Sam Morgan Moore Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Members Eric Fletcher S.O.C. Posted June 12, 2009 Premium Members Report Share Posted June 12, 2009 Im being unclear If you have the rig on - everything horizontal - and a conventional wide lens you frame a shot of the big hotel foyer (or whatever) Your shot will contain too much floor and not enough height to show the room properly You must tilt the rig up to create a pleasing composition - ie one where the elements of the image fill the frame - BUT you now have leaning verticals in the composition and a tilted rig You then have to operate tilted - horrid And if you pan all the uprights in the shot lean - even more horrid If you slap on a PC lens you keep the rig flat and use upshift to compose a pleasant shot that is easy to operate - Conversly if you want to do a full length walkie of someone who is the same height as you get the same problem With a flat rig sitting above waist height and conventional lens you must tilt forward to frame them head to foot - giving them a big head, small feet and losing verticals in the composition With a little lens PC down shift you can create a pleasing composition and keep the rig flat At 6'5 Im taller than most people and find a little downshift is very helpful to operating The nikkor 28/3.5 PC manual lens is the one to test - it has many attributes like a non click Iris and great focus that make it moddable for use with a Steadicam In 24 years of flying the nobel instrument I have NEVER had to deal with issue that describe. If I want to control the perspective I will use a dolly. But using one with steadicam is folly. Seriously you are creating a "Solution" for a problem that doesn't exisit. BTW GB is over 6'5" and hasn't resorted to PC lenses.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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