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

Martin Erik Andersen wrote:

I have now tried the 45° stitch direction of five shots in a cross pattern. But after cropping with surprisingly little gain in the final panorama format compared to a single shot. Actually surprisingly next to nothing:

I could probably have been more precise in getting the 45° correct (the clicks at shift axis being at 30° and 60°), and then having to crop less, but still I suppose not terrible much would have been gained.

A bit better than a 3 shot stitch, but again not much compared to a single non-stitched shot:

As far as I can see getting more of the image circle into play would require a 90° rotation of the shifting direction, and that would again change the possible tilt focus planes to the opposing 2 possible diagonals. And the additional photos would not be able to stitch into a single photo as the tilted diagonal focus planes would not match.

I sure might be doing something wrong. The 45° degree shift direction for panorama certainly ads to the complexity of it all.

But anyway interesting to make exercises at a primitive test setup – I am getting more familiar with the settings and the possible focus planes, it will be useful when making decisions in real life. Hereby recommended 😊

Martin your resulting stitch looks very unexpected to me. Did you rotate the camera 45 degrees instead of the lens? The camera should not rotate.