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
get one of these bad boys. put a dslr or mirrorrless on the back and whataver lens you want on the front. i used several ts lenses and adaptors but they simply dont compare.
>>4484809With this setup you can’t use shorter lens than 80mm. You will need digital back to use shorter lenses
>>4484919i forgot about that. im acurakly using mamiya 645 macro lenses on mine. https://www.captureintegration.com/cambo-actus-lens-compatibility-table/
>>4480961I shoot arch. I mostly use the tilt-shit when shooting things that are going to need to be tiled, like a huge vertical panel in an atrium yesterday I couldn't shoot any other way. If I have to stitch images together, they're getting shot on the TS. It eliminates the risk of time wasted dicking around with failed pano merges and other artifacts of trying to do it in post.Most things you can correct in-camera, you should. Just shoot it right the first time.
>>4477091What's a parallax?
>>4477071You can get ones with a ball and a fluid. These are ideal imo, they cover almost everything including video.
Noobie photographer here, what is a panoramic tripod head?Does it have angle locking, because it seems like the thing in the OP does, and I'm considering that for what I say in >>4486909
>>4488024Have you ever tried using the search bar on a web browser to find info about unfamiliar things? (I suggest trying duckduckgo before Google cause platform decay slop.) A $€£ 5 round bubble level might help getting camera pointing straight down with whatever tripod+head you have. (Fancy head will not help if your tripod is a wobbly toy.) If you need to scan documents / books borrow, rent or buy a document / book scanner. From quick glance to a € 104.40 one on sale at Amazon(de) the bundled software can flatten and split pages and remove background and fingers. (Dunno if that scanner is any good or +1000% tarifed in Murica.)
>>4488217I did a lot of searching on this a year or so ago and wasn't able to find much at the time, but since I'm not knowledgeable on photography I figured it was possible I simply wasn't using the right terminologyI'm not just wanting a level, because that still introduces room for my tweaking to be slightly off if by eye I don't notice the level not being actually entirely level. I'm wanting something that actually locks itself to different angle increments so there's no room for error.
>>4488024Panoramic tripod heads are so you can shoot panoramas while keeping the nodal point the sameIf you pan direction on a normal tripod, differences in nodal point can give you some distortionIt doesn't have much functional benefit outside of panoramas / composite>>4488232You can get geared heads which offer precise angle adjustment as the knobs are "geared" rather than "locked/unlocked" like most heads, but they are generally quite expensive.Any decent tripod will lock at whatever angle you want, and you can usually be fine with relying on the cameras built-in level.
>>4487884See A and B of >>4488285If you don't account for parallax, you can end up with a slightly different perspective
