I have yet to see the Flexicam but according to the literature both of them are so similar in specs (weight and size) that I find it strange...
the difference is that the Bicam can take lenses on a helicord as an option (at the expense of swing and tilt)
I believe the one I use is a flexibellow maxi...it takes up more space than a flexibellow but is necessary if you are using lenses of a certain focal length (check silvestri's website for specs on that). I use a 45mm rodenstock f4.5 on it and it focuses to infinity. I was considering a 35mm but I'm not sure if it focuses.
regarding shift, without bellows you can do a rise and fall 15mm up and down, the side shift is on the bellows. You can turn the camera 90 degrees to get your shift if you want.
but interestingly (not sure if it's my tripod's fault) I haven't been able to stitch my photos cleanly as of yet...there's always a slight perspective change. I'm going to do more tests to figure it out.
I read about the stitching adapter but I don't understand how it works. The movements should be adequate for stitching purposes within the image circle of the lens...
I don't really understand the need for the rings in general. I would think that it's necessary for longer focal length lenses to focus (the flexi maci bellows extends to 105mm only)
dear jing,
which of the 2 tilt-adaptors (flexi-bellow or f-b maxi) do you use? have you really found out you need it or did you decide based on your former lf-experiences? does the bicam without the below shift in 2 ways?
what exactly IS your problem with the sliding-back, you wrote about "shimming" but no dictionary could translate that for me poor german ;-) - and how do you face it. why didn't you just return it? what does your dealer and silvestri say? many years ago i had maybe the same kind of problem with a basic sinar 4/5: the screen was by construction 1,5mm away from where it should have been. it took me more than a year until they believed me, and that only after one of their guys came by and made a side by side test with his reference-camera and mine. they finally replaced my back (nobody ever replaced the travels, films, time, reputation! - sharp slides were only a matter of sheer luck then) and told me that something like that never ever had happened before. months later a colleague phoned me: he as well as half a dozen of other photographers without explanation suddenly had received new backs for their sinars after they had tried in vain for months to convince sinar they had problems with focusing. he got in touch with someone inside sinar and was told under cover, that I could have been the reason for that - so he phoned me. all of them had these bad backs. all of them were told, that something like that had never ever happened before... so this for swiss quality.
if you like: could you describe to me the function of the stitching-adapter if it is this you use. and: do you have to change extension rings on the back of the bicam, whenever you change a lens? thanks a lot!!
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