One of the pleasures of flying helicopters at East Coast Aero Club is that sometimes I get to fly aerial photographers (the alternative is flying with a student at the controls!).
On a flight this summer the photographer was one of Boston’s leading architectural photographers. I asked him what he was using for his day-to-day work. A view camera with a digital back? An SLR with a bunch of perspective correction lenses? He responded with “I’ve got 14 view camera lenses that are beautiful paperweights at this point. I do almost everything with a Nikon D810 and the 14-24mm zoom lens.” Perspective distortions are then fixed (by him) in Photoshop.
I remember reading about perspective correction and view cameras back when photo.net was your de-facto “blog” (which inspired me to get a 4×5 view camera and some lenses), back in 1996.
You could say, times have changed.
Are the photography flying gigs are starting to trail off as drones take over the task?