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

Martin Erik Andersen wrote:

Hi Brett, I think what you suggest only will give you 2 out of the 4 possible directions for diagonal tilt.

The issue is doing the shots for the stitch with consistent diagonal tilt direction - in any of the four possible diagonal directions. That is to say in four different variations of the same panorama view.

"Step 4: Turn lens clockwise 90 degrees on shift axis"

With your step number 4 turning the 90 shift axis the diagonal tilt direction also rotates to an opposing angle. This results in mixed diagonal tilted directions in the photos for the panorama stitch.

I suppose it might stitch together if the contrast between focused and unfocused areas isn't too strong, but it would then be an artificial digital blend of different diagonal angles of focus.

Well, difficult to describe in writing, easier to see it in praxis. But for the experiment one has to try to do the stitched material for all four diagonal directions - for the four different versions of diagonal focus of the same panorama view. It takes some time, but it is fun trying 😊

For a stitched horizontal panorama I still think only these 2 diagonal tilted focus planes are possible:

And these 2 directions are not possible:

One can of course make the less wide panorama format, by 3 stitched vertical shots. This will result in the mirrored options of diagonal focus planes. Cropping this version down to the wider format could be said to limit the limitation.

(but I certainly will not rule out I am wrong, I have before been getting stuck in repeated errors in multiple variations )

Martin, I thought since you had already agreed that doing diagonal panos solved that issue I thought the only question was how much horizontal width the method yielded so I cut the tilting directions out of my instructions. My apologies for not addressing that part of it.

At step #4 you would flip the camera upside down on that mount you reference in your first post and then rotate and shift back to get back to the upper left photo and now you’d have the impossible angles available to you.