How can I do 4x5 rise/fall movements with super wide angle lenses?

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I'm looking for super wide angle lenses, ideally 50mm and below. I'm only interested about decent rise/fall movements because I do mostly architecture, and I'd like to be very close to the subject.

However, I cannot find suitable lenses for it. Meaning, super wide angle lenses IC is usually around 160mm.

Is there a viable alternative that would allow me to do rise/fall movements?

Michael C · Answer

Ultrawide lenses tend to have lots of problems with geometric distortion. Shift movements away from the center of the image circle can only make geometric distortion worse.

With so much geometric distortion, what would be the point of doing shift movements to alleviate perspective distortion?

Roger Krueger · Answer

They don't exist. They can't exist, really. 120 degrees is about as far as rectilinear designs seem to go.

If you wanted that Super Angulon 47XL to cover more than 166mm it'd have to be wider than 120 degrees.

Shift is identical to off-center cropping.

But somehow people understand "cropping narrows your field of view" better than they understand "shooting a lens on a format small enough to permit shift narrows your field of view"

How can I do 4x5 rise/fall movements with super wide angle lenses?

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