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    Do you use them for landscapes, and if so, when do you use them if you also have a wide angle lens?

    Pros and cons?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jay Gould View Post
    Do you use them for landscapes, and if so, when do you use them if you also have a wide angle lens?

    Pros and cons?
    Jay,
    I have a view camera (actually several 4x5 cameras and one 8x10), which gives tilts and swings. Tilt/shift definitely has uses. But for my style of photography, I'm finding digital mosaics are just as good and in many cases better. I freeze focal length, exposure time and f/ratio for the entire mosaic, but I let focus vary from frame to frame. I just need enough depth of field so the frame to frame images stay in good enough focus. But that allows near to far with greater depth of field than is possible with a very slow f/ratio (e.g. f/22, f/32). So I've largely replaced view camera work and the need for tilts/swings with variable focus mosaics, and usually equal or surpass 4x5 quality.

    More here: http://www.clarkvision.com/articles/large_mosaics/

    Roger

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    Hi Jay. I have a Canon 90 mm tilt/shift lens and I love using it for everything from near-macro to what I would refer to as mini-landscapes. An example of the latter can be found here - http://www.birdphotographers.net/for...r-the-scallops This lens works especially well when you have a flat surface, such as a beach, to tilt the plane of focus onto.

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