Architectural Photography Tip 1: Correcting Converging Verticals

Professional photographers who take pictures of architecture and interiors use specialist equipment such as shift lenses or medium and large format cameras where lenses can be tilted and shifted in all directions as they use a flexible bellows system. Shift lenses are very expensive but in the past, they were the main option for correcting converging verticals when photographing large buildings. Wide angle shift lenses made for 35mm cameras by Nikon, Canon, Pentax and Olympus are only of use on digital SLR cameras which use a full frame sensor. Most digital SLR sensors are much smaller than standard 35mm film and therefore a 28mm shift lens