Digital Photographic Capture

Hybrid Digital Photography

Craig Duggan © Hedrich Blessing 2000. “Panorama from One Wacker Drive” by Craig Duggan. This panorama was captured by a large-format viewcamera, which allowed the use of a wide-angle lens with a vertical format to extend the angle of view toinclude most of the high buildings near the camera location and the river and street level. Because a very wide-angle lens and perspective control were used, film was required in this case. If a digital scan back had beenused, image aberrations would have been caused by the scanning, movement of light, and environmentalevents. Also, with the wide angle of view, exposure falloff would ...