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« Reply #40 on: March 03, 2008, 04:11:03 am »

Gidday,

Came across this website.

http://www.kapturegroup.com/true/wide.html

Cheers

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« Reply #41 on: March 03, 2008, 06:33:50 am »

I used to own one and have used it for quite a while. Together with the 85PC Nikkor & the 28shift as well as the 35shift. (naturally I also used other F-mount lenses like the Zeiss ZF)

Pity the new PC lenses (24, 45) probably cannot be used on this one.
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« Reply #42 on: March 08, 2008, 12:43:58 pm »

Did someone already mentioned the Silvestri Flexicam?  http://www.silvestricamera.it/eng/prodotti...rodotti_eng.htm
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« Reply #43 on: March 08, 2008, 05:55:24 pm »

Hartblei, I have one. The only purpose of this being to create images with tilted focal plane.

Unusable as an architectural shift lens, you might as well use an DSLR with a shift lens, actually the Canon 1DsII with TS-E 24 is probably sharper.

Nice as an effect though.

Really, you can go through this debate a hundred times, but ask anyone who actually does shift photography with an MFDB and there is really only one or two ways to do it with wide angle lenses without going insane.

1) Cambo (expensive)
2) Alpa (even more expensive, but you can safely stand on them).

Ok, or strange one off cameras made by engineers in white coats with 3 customers...

and lenses

3) Schneider (expensive)
4) Rodenstock (stupefyingly expensive)

Making a TS lens that is really sharp for an MF back is like pushing the dialithium crystals further than ever before. 'Ye canna beat the laws 'o' physics cap'n'

Own up. How many professional architectural or interior photographers use a Silvestri. Now how many use its tilt capability. I suspect the answer is a number as broad as its long with a hole in the middle.
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« Reply #44 on: March 21, 2008, 02:26:31 am »

Just an update .... picked up a used Schneider 55mm PCS lens for my Rollei 6008 today.   I have only taken a couple quick shots with it but I can already tell this is one very sharp lens - and distortion is very low.  May have a bit of flare but I don't have a hood for it yet.  Seems very impressive.  Just noticed that it does 12mm shift up, 10mm down and 11mm to the sides.
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« Reply #45 on: March 21, 2008, 11:05:26 am »

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Just an update .... picked up a used Schneider 55mm PCS lens for my Rollei 6008 today.   I have only taken a couple quick shots with it but I can already tell this is one very sharp lens - and distortion is very low.  May have a bit of flare but I don't have a hood for it yet.  Seems very impressive.  Just noticed that it does 12mm shift up, 10mm down and 11mm to the sides.
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How much did this cost?
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« Reply #46 on: March 21, 2008, 11:47:23 am »

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Not as much as you might think, but still a bit more than the Hartblei or Mamiya RZ 75mm.
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« Reply #47 on: March 21, 2008, 12:03:21 pm »

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Not as much as you might think, but still a bit more than the Hartblei or Mamiya RZ 75mm.
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Congrats, Eric!

I'd love to see some images from this lens.

Don't buy up *all* the good glass--save some for the rest of us, OK?  

Take care,
Brad
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