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Been spending a lot of time on here!
I miss correcting perspective without having to debate if it's better to extrapolate or crop. I miss selective DOF without having to make sloppy, approximated depth maps using often silly fake bokeh. And most important, I miss being able to get everything in sharp focus at f/4 (yes, it's possible and by far the best part of using a view camera).
Hasselblad and 35mm t/s adapters are fine. T/S lenses are of course available. And these will get everything I want done, but still i'd be lacking both front and rear movements.
I was thinking. What if you took *two* tilt shift adapters and mounted them onto a mirrorless camera?
If you take a Fuji XF to Nikon F tilt/shift adapter, and to that a Nikon F to Hasselblad Bayonet t/s adapter, you should still have 17.7mm to adapt some sort of printed or machined tripod interface between them. Or use a bellows set for a really interesting macro setup without infinity focus.
Moreover, if you use two nikon adapters and an M42 to Nikon adapter without corrective glass, and then mount a copal to M42 adapter within that you could place a bellows set in between them and maybe (provided there is no mechanical interference) use modern lenses, like the APO-Digitar. Yep, a $5,000 lens on a sub-$1000 Chinese hodgepodge!
Ok, So maybe wide angle lenses aren’t really rational (and this may defeat the whole purpose for architectural work) but what are your thoughts on this crazy mess? It’d certainly be small.
Hasselblad and 35mm t/s adapters are fine. T/S lenses are of course available. And these will get everything I want done, but still i'd be lacking both front and rear movements.
I was thinking. What if you took *two* tilt shift adapters and mounted them onto a mirrorless camera?
If you take a Fuji XF to Nikon F tilt/shift adapter, and to that a Nikon F to Hasselblad Bayonet t/s adapter, you should still have 17.7mm to adapt some sort of printed or machined tripod interface between them. Or use a bellows set for a really interesting macro setup without infinity focus.
Moreover, if you use two nikon adapters and an M42 to Nikon adapter without corrective glass, and then mount a copal to M42 adapter within that you could place a bellows set in between them and maybe (provided there is no mechanical interference) use modern lenses, like the APO-Digitar. Yep, a $5,000 lens on a sub-$1000 Chinese hodgepodge!
Ok, So maybe wide angle lenses aren’t really rational (and this may defeat the whole purpose for architectural work) but what are your thoughts on this crazy mess? It’d certainly be small.