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Film - Digital

View Camera

VIEW CAMERA LENS

CAMERA MOVEMENTS

Unlike most cameras, the view camera has the ability to alter the planes of the film and lens to control both depth of field and perspective. The view camera generally has four basic movements or adjustments that allow these "corrections" to be made. These adjustments allow the lens board and the ground glass to be realigned independently of each other.
 

 

The four movements are listed in the next pages:

1 Rise and fall - vertical movement.
This movement can be used with the front standard where the lens is and the rear standard where the ground glass and film are.

Move over image to view roll over image

 

 

 

 

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