On Dec 10, 2006, at 11:14 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > > On Dec 10, 2006, at 7:45 PM, Beaker wrote: > >> Anyone think a "tilt-shift adapter" that fit between a SLR and 645 >> lens would be practical? (Wide lenses and leaning spires got me >> thinking about it.) The MF lens circle would lend a fair amount of >> movement. According to a lens registration chart I found, an adapter >> would have to be 25.41 mm deep to allow the lens to focus properly. >> Enough room for the mecanism? > > There are bag-bellows lens mounts for various DSLR/35mm SLR cameras > that accept medium and large format lenses for this purpose. They > have a limited but enthusiastic following. > > Of course, these kinds of things are for a studied, formal approach > to architectural photography and have some serious limitations on > their applicability. The biggest issue is that the lenses available > are rarely of a focal length that can allow much field of view for > miniature formats like 24x36 and 16x24mm. > > As Paul said, you'll get more mileage out of learning how to use the > software perspective correction tools in Photoshop and other image > processing tools ... > > Godfrey > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Well- I've never been accused of really practical day-dreaming. Cheers Mike -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
