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

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Brett8883 Contributing Member • Posts: 852
Re: Diagonal tilt - Ts-e lenses. Issue with panorama shift?
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Martin Erik Andersen wrote:

Thanks Keith. Kind of nice to know this limitation actually is in the Ts-e lens - and not in me not being able figure out the settings. That is to say that I don't have to try to do something that is not possible out in the field.

Now what to do about it...can probably get very expensive very quickly. Well, all gear has limitations....and I find a lot to like in the Ts-e lenses....can't afford any upgrades right now, but I am surely tempted...

Martin,

I may not be fully understanding the issue but in your situation as I understand it you would shift the lens 45 degrees with no additional tilt rotation required. Then you’d be able to tilt in all diagonal directions right up, left up, right down, left down.

If you wanted to make a pano from it you could make an X pattern using shift and taking photos from 4 or more different shifted locations instead of 3. So 45 degree shift left up, 45 degree shift left down, shift right up, and right down.  You may not be able to get the full width of the image circle since you are shifting diagonally, it would still be much a much wider pano than the non shifted full frame image circle. The keys is you need a 45 degree shift rotation not 90 degrees.
Again not sure how well 4 different tilt directions will stitch together but that’s how you can them

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