House of the Temple,. Washington, DC, 2023.
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This is a stitched composite of two captures made from the same position, using horizontal shift movements to get a wider field of view on either side. This was really the only way to capture this building from in front of a tree that would otherwise have obstructed the facade, while also keeping its geometry undistorted. The final result is roughly the angle of view of a 14mm lens (in 35mm full frame terms), with a total of about 190 megapixels in the combined frame.
I used the 32mm Rodenstock here. I could have just barely squeezed this into a single frame with the wider-angle 23mm, except that the 23 doesn't have a large enough image circle to accommodate the vertical shift needed to keep the vertical lines from converging. The 32 has a much larger image circle, and so stitching with it yields a wider angle of view than I could obtain with the 23 (which allows only much more limited movements). More pixels this way, too.
@[email protected] you're really not helping the temptation to buy an XC
@[email protected] I frankly don't understand the point of the XC. It's only slightly smaller than the XT with the 23, but you can't interchange the lenses and you get no movements (granted, not much movement is possible with the 23 anyway).
@[email protected] it's smaller enough that it could fit in my normal day bag, and wideness solves the need for any shift
@[email protected] Yeah, but if you just get an XT and a 23mm, you get the ability to interchange lenses and use movements without much extra size. I guess someone is buying XCs, I just can't figure out who it's for.
@[email protected] yeah, the portability is really the only justification. It's a modern Hasselblad SWC, there is a market, but very small. I do expect I'll end up buying one once I own an IQ4
@[email protected] annoyingly, they don’t seem to (currently) sell it without a back. If they did, and I didn’t already have a 23, I’d consider buying an XC sans back instead of a 23 in the XT/cambo mount.
@[email protected] they do, but only started doing so a few months after launch