Tilt-Shift Options
Wed 18-Nov-20 02:56 PM
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#1. "RE: Tilt-Shift Options" | In response to Reply # 0
Wed 18-Nov-20 03:28 PMMy father still has his 8x10 View camera and that is pretty much what I grew up to appreciate (even though I bought my first F body at age 13). So I know what you are trying to do.
I have experimented with a Nikon enlarger lens on a Nikon Bellows PB-4. It works well with FTZ adapter. Fotodiox has made some cool stuff and so has Novoflex. Check out Novoflex CASTBAL Tilt-Shift Bellows System.
I have corrected a lot of building shots with Nikon Bellows PB-4 and a Nikon enlarger lens. My dad was impressed too.Visit my Nikonians gallery.
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#2. "RE: Tilt-Shift Options" | In response to Reply # 1
Wed 18-Nov-20 09:06 PM | edited Wed 18-Nov-20 09:10 PM by mealsopThanks for the replay, I'll definitely follow up on your suggestions.
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#3. "RE: Tilt-Shift Options" | In response to Reply # 2
Thu 19-Nov-20 02:09 PM | edited Thu 19-Nov-20 02:12 PM by kmacyThis read might interest you:
https://nikonrumors.com/2010/11/27/guest-post-shooting-products-with-nikon-tilt-lenses.aspx/Visit my Nikonians gallery.
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#6. "RE: Tilt-Shift Options" | In response to Reply # 0
Thu 19-Nov-20 07:29 PM
I thought I would show you the rig I have. I use a Nikkor 135 5.6 enlarging lens mounted on an adapter ring to F mount. I use the FTZ adapter with my Z7 to clear the back-end of the PB4.
This lens lets me take portraits or building photos with a tripod rig which quick tilts to normal to vertical.
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This lens lets me take portraits or building photos with a tripod rig which quick tilts to normal to vertical.
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#7. "RE: Tilt-Shift Options" | In response to Reply # 6
Thu 19-Nov-20 10:04 PMI really appreciate all your suggestions and I will certainly file them away for future reference.
My main objective is to move the lens up and down while keeping the axis of the lens perpendicular to the sensor plane. I'm not interested in the tilt part of tilt-shift lenses. I have played with the Scheimpflug principle but never found it very useful.
The Fotodiox adapters will shift the lens 20mm, 10mm up / 10mm down. My objective is to find a medium format lens that has excellent image quality right across the image circle and has an image circle large enough to cover the 35mm format sensors when shifted.
In preparation I've created "to-scale" diagrams of 6 medium format image sizes. From these it looks like the image circle of lenses for the H6D-100c frame would be too small.
All the others I've diagramed would be large enough to provide good coverage when shifted the full 10mm.
Now I need help finding a lens with the right mount for one of the Fotodiox tilt-shift adapters.
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#9. "RE: Tilt-Shift Options" | In response to Reply # 7
Fri 20-Nov-20 07:43 AMMy dad would say that it sounds like a great bench testing exercise. He would set up a spare bellows, lens board and mount. Then using a projector he would test his lenses.
I remember seeing the results looking very similar to what you have drawn out above. I do not use view cameras per say. But I do my own lens testing with charts and careful measurements and controlled conditions.
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The Photoshop tool is actually quite good, especially if there is not a lot of parallax across the image. It does a good job of preserving image detail. Still, it would be better if the image did not need to be stretched/compressed for parallax.
I've owned but never been overly impressed with the tilt-shift lenses from Canon, Nikon and Schneider Kreuznach. Now that I'm shooting with a Z7 I've been pondering the subject of tilt-shift lenses again.
A couple of months ago I purchased a Fotodiox Pro 35mm extension tube for the Z-Mount bodies. It is an impressive piece of equipment. While looking through their products for another extension tube I noticed they also make various tilt-shift adapters for the Z bodies that will mount medium format lenses!
They have tilt-shift adapters for Mamiya 645, Pentax 6x7, Pentax 645 and Hasselblad V lenses.
My thought is to purchase a used medium format lens and mount it to the Z body via one of the Fotodiox tilt-shift adapters.
That leaves me with two question for you folks…
1) Has anyone tried this, is it a good idea?
2) How do I go about finding an optically good medium format lens?