Severi Salminen <sev### [at] NOT_THISsibafi> wrote in message
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> The trick is very useful when, for example, you try to take a photograph
> of a building.
>
> 1. If you level your camera and point it straight forward, you might not
> see the top portion of the building.
>
> 2. If you point the camera upwards, the building does not look
> rectangular anymore: all the lines start to "converge".
>
> 3. If you level your camera, point it straight forward (as in no 1.),
> and shift the film lower (maintaining the alignment) in relation to the
> lens, you will see the whole building with straigh walls that do not
> converge.


If this is what you trying for, John Guthkelch wrote a Field Camera Macro to
do exactly that. Search the older posts by author for Dr. John and you
should find it.  I used it in my IRTC architecture entry and it worked quite
well.

RG

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