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Let's see, a pilot flying in the yellow hits turbulence followed by a wind shear, and pulls up...
Respectfully disagree (as a 40-something year old aerobatic pilot) with the less sustained focus part, not the specialized skill part.
I just love playing with words.
Edge sharpness and barrel distortion? ;)
No it can't. You can not reliably tilt the plane of focus, something that precisely the tilt-shift lens does.
> No, it's not perfect just like an iPhone doesn't take as a good a picture as a high-end Canon/Nikon/Sony.
iPhone actually does very middle of the road pictures. You can never beat a Canon/Nikon/Sony simply because you do not have the sensor size. I am not even going to try to bring metering discussion here.
> And even on a large screen (my 65" TV) they still look great at a glance.
Depends on the viewing distance. Put ink on paper, and then we will talk.
> Let me change the perspective live while I'm taking the picture. IIRC I found apps that do this but they want $10-$20 a month. Here's hoping Apple and Google add it to the default camera apps. This could be even better because given computational photography the phone can take 10-20 shots at 1000fps and then merge them for higher res in the areas where there's less censor pixels per arc angle.
No, you are wrong. When you are shifting, you actually move over the "sensor" in the focus circle, not merely do a cropping gizmo like apps do.
If you want to really understand why view cameras still whip ass and tilt shift lenses are relevant, try taking photograph of a tall building and see how the edges are not parallel and if you try to correct that in software, you will see distortions.
Now if you have Discover or Chase Freedom, they run the 5% quarterly bonus (for the first $1500 spent on the bonus category) at least once a year, so your break even point is even more than what I mentioned earlier (closer to $10K).
But it is nothing like, yeah, looks about right, so we can fly with VFR. Best case scenario, your wings will be clipped, at least for a while; worst case scenario, you will get a headstone earlier than you should have and your next of kin would be sued for damages.
Otherwise you are better served with a Cessna 1x2 (where x = 5, 7 or if really pushing it 8) and a competent CFI.
Keep the rubber side down.
> The instructor let me fly for a while then put me "under the hood" so I couldn't see, said "It's my airplane", took control and flipped it all around, and then said "Your plane". The flight controls were all I could see. I could see that I was in a dive with rotation so I cut the throttle, centered the stick and kicked opposite rudder until the rotation stopped then regained level flight.
That is a weird way of explaining what happened and I find it extremely hard to believe this was written by a pilot. I would have never used the word rotation and dive. They mean very different things from what the author is trying to explain. If I was writing this, I would have said, "I was put in a spin and I did blah to recover". Also, there is a very important piece of PARE missing in that commentary, the "P". It is extremely hard, if not impossible to come out of a fully developed "spin", not "rotation", without pulling power even in training aircrafts.
I call this unadulterated bullshit.