hello

hi, looking at the lens offering for DMFB vs using 4x5 film, is stitching for architecture
work common ?

if it is, then how do you guys deal with situation when there is traffic ? or any moving
foreground/background, like trees swaying in the wind etc...

cheers

When using DSLR, I only use stitching on interiors to get a wider angle than the 24TS allows. It never seems necessary on exteriors. Much of my architecture work is still done with 4x5 and film. In 28 years I have only had to do one exterior stitch with film.

i stitched a lot as long i used canon or kodak ff cameras,- using herefor the pentax mf 645 lenses together with a zoerk adapter or the olympus 24 shift lense.
after working with mf systems i stopped to do so, the 28HR sinar - rodenstock lense is wide enough for most of my purposes. sometimes ( really very few times ) i stitch images with this lense also. if i use it stitched the f.o.v. equals a 15mm lense on 35mm or a 47xl on 4x5",- which means it is really wide.

It's easier to do a vertical stitch, as opposed to a horizontal. In a vertical stitch with a reasonably wide lens, it's possible to take care of all the traffic and most of the trees. It's also important to do the second image rather quickly, so that shadows don't move so much.

Cheers,
Kumar

I've just been thinking, there seems to be no 1/2 measures in using a DB for architecture work as it requires the 28mm or 35mm rodenstock and an alpa or cambowide DS, or likes....

The widest lens on a MF camera is only 45mm if using the russian lens or 50mm if using the Mamiya shift lens, guess that's just barely enough and definately that won't cover all situations.