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Practice question · Multiple choice

A photographer needs the near edge of a long table and the far wall behind it both sharp at f/5.6. How does a view camera achieve that when a 35 mm camera at the same aperture cannot?

Hints
  1. Look at the Scheimpflug principle rather than at depth of field.
  2. The wedge of sharpness is being rotated, not widened.
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D. Tilting the lens swings the focus plane along the subject, placing both points in sharp focus

Why

Tilt rotates the plane of focus. Under Scheimpflug the subject plane, lens plane and film plane meet on a common line, so tilting the lens forward lays the plane of sharpness along the table. The wedge is no wider than before, it has simply been put where the subject is, which no fixed-plane camera can do.

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