Is it possible in Blender to render from a view rather than a camera?  I know that there is a button called "Render this Window" that does what I want except it doesn't display shadows etc.  Coming from 3ds max I'm used to being able to render a window view as if it was a camera.  Another handy feature in 3ds Max is that you can pan, scale and rotate your perspective window until you get the right "view" on your scene and then create a camera from that view.  Can this be done in Blender?

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