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Here is more information on view camera focusing post to go with the post from a week or so ago.  I thought I would add another link that I found on How to Focus a View Camera.

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OK, so this site doesn’t have a slick layout, but I really like the spirit of adventure of testing old lenses on large format cameras.

Jim Galli talks about lenses that he buys and sometimes restores. These might be large format lenses, portrait lenses, projection lenses, seemingly anything he can mount on a camera.

Some of his articles are comparison shots made with different lenses, some are just explorations of a single lens.

If this site can’t make you want to go try out new possibilities in old lenses, then I don’t know what will. It’s good stuff.

He has definitely given me the bug to seek out and try old glass. It looks fun.

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This video on how to focus a large format camera by Thomas Christopher Moore gives a very good demonstration of focusing a large format camera on a plane. It shows a practical method of utilizing the Scheimpflug principle. You don’t have to understand the complicated math in the wikipedia article to understand the video.

Here is another resource – text based this time. www.largeformatphotography.info has a good article that explains how to focus the view camera.

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