Product Shooting — Effective Use Of A Pc-E Nikkor Lens - Nikon D3X Technical Manual

Product shooting
D3X + PC-E Micro NIKKOR 85mm f/2.8D using the tilt function
Manual exposure, 1/100 s, f/4.2
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— effective use of a PC-E NIKKOR lens
■ Tilt shooting
Plane of focus
The image on the left was taken by tilting the lens using the tilt mechanism so that the entire
Subject
subject is in focus, although the subject plane is not parallel to the camera's image plane (f/4.2).
With the minimum focus distance of 0.39 m (1.3 ft.), the PC-E Micro NIKKOR 85mm f/2.8D
Perspective Control lens achieves close-up shooting like this.
■ Tilt shooting ■ Normal shooting
Image plane
Plane of focus
Subject
Subject
■ Normal shooting
Image plane
Subject
Plane of focus
D3X + PC-E Micro NIKKOR 85mm f/2.8D without the tilt function
D 3 X Te c h n i c a l G u i d e
Image plane
Image plane
Plane of focus
This picture was taken without
using the tilt function. Only a
specific part of the subject on
the image plane is in focus with a
shallow depth of field produced
by f/4.2 aperture.
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