Which do you think is more useful for Architecture photography - a Panoramic tripod head? Or A Tilt Shift lens?
>>4477015What are you poor or something? Just get both.
>>4477015>Tilt Shift lensWith a ballhead that has a level ... Honestly there's only three types of tripod heads that are needed, a fluid head, gimbal head, and ballhead. Spend money on a good one of either and you're set.
>>4477071Unless you're shooting panoramas. In which case they're completely useless because you get parallax problems.
>>4477073>panoramasThen you whip out the gimbal or fluid head something more fixed, on one axis while more nimble on the other. For general architecture a ballhead is perfect.
>>4477078I feel like you don't understand what parallax is
>>4477073>et parallax problems.i'm sure you could get some kind of nodal point adapter for a ballhead rather than a whole separate head. but if you can just have multiple types without issue that's fine too i suppose.
>>4477093He just uses a macro rail https://youtu.be/aka7HhOMIBg
>>4477015if you're going to use a tilt shift lens, why not just use a large-format camera?
>>4477015Tilt shift. We use the tilt shift every day. Never once needed the pano head. Ball heads suck. Geared micro-adjust head ftw.Nothing like loosening one clamp and having to adjust all three axes at once bc the fucking camera is just flailing around freely on a ball.
>>4480477Because clients do not appreciate 1, the artistry of film & 2, the extra time required to develop olde timey artistry of film.
>>4477093As strictly hobbyist,Get whatever lenses you need. If you need to shoot parallel vertical lines you need either a (tilt-)shift or a bit wider lens and some extra megapickles for doing it in post.Also whatever heads you need. If you do not shoot panoramas or ball panoramas you do not need a panorama head. But doing it without is bit fiddly and easy to mess up. Ball panorama much more so.
>>4480477>if you're going to use a tilt shift lens, why not just use a large-format camera?If you're going to fly in a plane why don't you just go in a hot air balloon?
Can you combine a panoramic tripod head with a tilt Shift lens? Or does that just fuck everything up?
>>4480477no one who has ever shot with a large format camera would pose this question
Aside from using a tilt-shift to correct lines, could they also be used for more stylistic purposes during regular use (not talking about the miniature focus effect)?
>>4480562If you shoot for example a panorama of a public square surrounded by high rise buildings, having both could be a good idea.>>4480961For example point camera upwards, shift to get subject in frame & make perspective worse and tilt to adjust plane of focus so everything is on focus and and your subject has really tiny head & really fat legs. (Or something like that, I haven't tried.)
>>4480961You can use them to stretch perspectives
>>4481433Neat.It's fucked that all the first-party canon tilt-shifts are like several thousand dollars and like 3x the delta of a roughly similar non tilt-shift (that also has AF and often IS). I kind of want one for architectural photography.
>>4481438I sold mine a while back to fund a super telephoto lens, and I miss it a lot. I might save up and get a second hand one again. It adds a lot of fun to photography.
>>4481438Tilt-shift lens needs bigger good quality image circle than not-ts of same focal length, using movements move the frame off the optical axis of lens. That, mechanics and low demand add the cost up.Samyang has less expensive tilt-shift lenses. Also medium format lens to dslr/mirrorless tilt-shift adapters exist (dunno how $$$ wide angle medium format lenses are). If you want a toy Lensbaby may still be a thing. I've only used large format camera movements myself.asjhy
