Alan Browne wrote:
Paul Furman wrote:
Alan Browne wrote:
I've located an adaptor for Hasselblad lenses to Minolta A-mount.

I'm tempted. Anyone use these? What are the tradeoffs? ...
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The advantage is you can do tilt/shift.

Not with adaptor I'm looking at.

Shifting for perspective correction isn't very useful for a long lens
and not all lenses hold up well tilted. You can easily test the
concept by wrapping some black fabric around the mount as a makeshift
bellows, the offset will be about an inch.

Here's a 300mm f/4 lens with the focus mechanism and aperture removed
so there's room to mount it on a bellows:
http://edgehill.net/Misc/photography/pg1pc4

Looks cool ... well awkward and heavy anyway.

A lot smaller than the 300/2.8 on the same bellows that you saw :-)


This one is *not* sharp... perhaps a bad copy or just cheap design,
but it's interesting and fun to play with. It probably produces a
decent image stopped down.

Here's a crazy home made tilt/shift mount for a respectable Russian
28mm [correction: 30mm] fisheye:
http://edgehill.net/Misc/photography...-camera/pg1pc3

Insane! Love it! Where are the phots taken with it?

This is really the only good/interesting technical shot I did with it:
http://edgehill.net/Misc/misc-photos...ull-set/pg2pc7
-the next shot shows the setup.
-on the D200 that's a normal lens, I don't know if it could be
duplicated simply by stopping down, this isn't very sharp.

Here's some more (but they have the freaky DOF look):
http://edgehill.net/Southwest/12-21-...07-bisbee-tilt

I use the lens with a floppy hand held mount for that freaky look, it's
a lot less hassle than the big rig. Here's some on the D700:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/edgehill/2080128112/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/edgehill/3233820872/

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