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Diagonal tilt - Ts-e lenses. Issue with panorama shift?

Started 8 months ago | Discussions thread
Martin Erik Andersen
OP Martin Erik Andersen Junior Member • Posts: 43
Photos illustrating the issue

Here an attempt at a photo set up to illustrate the issue.

The red gradients approximate the tilted diagonal focus planes in between the tape lines (sorry just a quick setup)

The first 4 shots are single frame. And all is well and fine. All the 4 four diagonal directions of tilt are covered – by rotating the tilt axis ca. 45°, and importantly for my issue by rotating the shift axis by 90°:

But here comes the issue. When taking 3 photos with shift for a panorama, I can not rotate the shift axis the 90° (as it of course is in use for the panorama). And I end up with only 2 of the 4 possible directions for diagonal tilt:

Am I wrong? Or is this a limitation of the tilt axis on the Ts-e only being able to rotate 90°?

I am aware that using diagonal tilt in panorama may seem an unusual feature, but personally I like it a lot for creative purposes. And it is of course important to know what is possible and what’s not when standing in field trying figure out a shot. The diagonal tilt and the combinations of rotations on the ts-e lenses sure is complicated.

Well I hope I am wrong, and hope that someone here can show me the solution, in simple and practical terms (I have given up on the deeper math of Mr. Scheimpflug😊) .

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