Ah, the old Schienflug shuffle... I rarely ever corrected perspective distortion even though I took a lot of pictures of buildings. I can only think of a handfu

Ah, the old Schienflug shuffle... I rarely ever corrected perspective distortion even though I took a lot of pictures of buildings. I can only think of a handful of times I changed the focus plane and some of those were for a tabletop assignment at school. What I used a lot of was the shift, rise, and fall. Of course the only reason those were so useful is because the camera was such a pain in the ass to move around to reframe. Oh, and make sure you aren't using some fancy telephoto lens with its focal point out in front if you want to do front movements! They tend to have pretty small coverage so the amount of movements would be limited in any case I suppose. Now that architecture and tabletop photography are no longer dominated by large format I'm not sure how much sense it makes to spend extra money for more movements on your camera. The most common uses for LF photography these days are landscape and portraiture. Landscape photos will need, at most, fairly modest movements and portraits not at all. Most LF photographers these days would be fine with a graflex or other type of more or less a box with a lens camera. Of course if you really do want to go nuts with movements, monorail cameras have never been cheaper!