Introduction to The Basics

What is in The Basics

This section tells you why parallelism is important in photography and how just a few minutes spent checking alignment of your equipment, then achieving it, will improve the quality of your work.

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Summary

Contents

Description
Why parallelism is important Planes that are parallel give significant improvement in image quality and, more importantly, maximize lens performance.
Alignment checking methods Listing and discussion of various methods to check alignment.
How zig-align modules work Zig-align modules use the precision of repeated images that are made with two mirrors in order to maximize sensitivity of the alignment pattern.