ABSTRACT
View cameras are usually of folding baseboard or monorail construction, the latter giving unsurpassed versatility. A lens designed for use with camera movements usually has ‘extra covering power’ to give an image circle significantly greater than the format in use to allow the film area to remain within the circle when ‘shift’ movements. Arguably, the camera movement most frequently used outdoors is rising front, and for studio work it is drop front, both providing correction of vertical lines from a low or a high viewpoint. A view camera with all movements at neutral, imaging a planar subject perpendicular to the optical axis, will give, within the usual practical limits, an undistorted image which is a true perspective rendering of the subject. Image sharpness in a photographic record is usually controlled by suitable choice of focused distance, lens aperture and focal length to ensure the necessary depth of field.
