'Perspective correction' or 'the right way to be looked at'
Linhof Kardan Standard / Schneider Symmar / Agfa MCP paper negative
When you pick a rail camera for the first time, you tend to use it like a rigid camera for some time, until you begin to understand how it really works and that the advantages of such a camera don't end with the large frame size.
When you want to control perspective, you stop taking pictures with your intuition and start MAKING them with your intellect instead. This is such a picture, with the rail camera close to the subject, rail facing down and vertical convergence eliminated. This is how our brains tell us we see things, even if we don't really see them like that. That is the reason for perspective control: making pespective look real in the 2d, decieving light in order to look into the frame the same way our brains decieve us to see things.
Of course, if you are not obsessed with a naturalistic view of photography, this gets boring and you start looking for something else. In the meantime you stop worrying about perspective control and maybe even start twisting perspective yourself...
'Perspective correction' or 'the right way to be looked at'
Linhof Kardan Standard / Schneider Symmar / Agfa MCP paper negative
When you pick a rail camera for the first time, you tend to use it like a rigid camera for some time, until you begin to understand how it really works and that the advantages of such a camera don't end with the large frame size.
When you want to control perspective, you stop taking pictures with your intuition and start MAKING them with your intellect instead. This is such a picture, with the rail camera close to the subject, rail facing down and vertical convergence eliminated. This is how our brains tell us we see things, even if we don't really see them like that. That is the reason for perspective control: making pespective look real in the 2d, decieving light in order to look into the frame the same way our brains decieve us to see things.
Of course, if you are not obsessed with a naturalistic view of photography, this gets boring and you start looking for something else. In the meantime you stop worrying about perspective control and maybe even start twisting perspective yourself...