Which vertical line?

[brambor]

When I'm shooting 24mm lens I often battle with vertical lines. They

drive me crazy. Yes, sometimes it doesn't matter and tilted

composition is good for the picture but many times it is really

distracting.

In situations like these my choice has been a compromise between the

the closess vertical line to the lens or the vertical line closest to

the middle of the picture.

[shambrick007]

<img src = http://www.keh.com/ProductImages/fullSize/NK06000009750.jpg> PLUS <img src = http://www.cameraquest.com/jpg4/adaptn2.jpg> ;-)

[lee hamiel]

Rene:

 

As Sheldon suggested or consider LF with movements.

 

Otherwise - try to lower your framing or raise it to try & counter the effect.

[lee_carruthers]

Rene:

If you scan your stuff, Photoshop will easily take care of any tilts and shifts quite nicely.

[mike-images]

Hi Rene,

 

I struggle with this with the 21mm, made worse by the fact the Leica 21mm finder has the worst barrell distortion on the planet. I keep telling myself not to get too worried about it and end up using the brightline frame in the finder to line up with some vertical or other. I seem to "get away with" most of them.

 

Regards

 

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[mike-images]

Or try this one - I think I lined up on the door frame but I'm so hopeless with vertical and horizontal:<div></div>

[ronald_moravec1]

PC on a reflex or get a 4x5 or other large format. Hassy has some expensive options.

 

The plastic 21 mm finder has much less distortion but they break.

[robert x]

buy the 12mm voiglander lens and a spirit level. You don't need a finder as basically

everything you can see is in the picture.....

[frank uhlig]

Turn your problems into asssets: Shoot with the camera deliberately out of kilter with wide angle lenses. Who says that verticals must be vertical with respect to the picture edge? Better compositions will often show themselevs right in your viewfinder. Compose!

 

Compose; do not conform, I would suggest.

 

And look at famous pics with tilted verticals. They are just good regardless of tilt, or even so only because of it!

 

And if you are tight a... and need perfect verticals, go to LF and learn tilt, swing and shift. Look at the latest issue of Lenswork for excellenn LF architecture pics. All so STRAIGHT up ...