giordano Posted December 27, 2014 Share #41 Posted December 27, 2014 Advertisement (gone after registration) Has anyone used the Novoflex CASTBAL T/S Bellows on their Leica? I'm considering buying this bellows unit but just finding out whether a high spec 24mm lens (Schneider or similar) can be used on the bellows. The Novoflex website says the minimum extension of the CASTBAL is 23mm. The lens register distance of an M is 28.8 mm. Add these and the thickness of the other adapters needed (to fit the bellows on the M body and your proposed lens on the bellows). If the total is less than the register distance of the lens, you'll get infinity focus; otherwise not. If you envisage getting infinity focus with something like the Schneider 24mm f/5.6 Apo-Digitar XL I think the answer is no. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted December 27, 2014 Posted December 27, 2014 Hi giordano, Take a look here M240 with Tilt Shift Lens for Commercial Use. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
jto555 Posted December 29, 2014 Share #42 Posted December 29, 2014 A bit off topic but, a good idea to avoid parallax issues if you are using shift lenses to stich images together is this lens plate for use with the Canon shift lens: http://www.hartblei.de/en/canon-tse-collar.htm At over €500 it is not cheap but can stop ghost images and hours in post production. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jto555 Posted December 30, 2014 Share #43 Posted December 30, 2014 Forgot to say, the plate attaches to the shift part of the lens. So when you apply shift you actuly shift the (film plane) camera up or down. As your point of view never changes you can stich images together without any parallax issues at all. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sillbeers15 Posted January 6, 2015 Share #44 Posted January 6, 2015 The pics below is taken using my 35mm Lux lens on M240 and vertically corrected by LR5. It look good enough for me to do without a Tilt Shift lens. Perhaps there is something I've missed. Can anyone kindly comment over my statement? Walkway by sillbeers15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mirekti Posted January 6, 2015 Share #45 Posted January 6, 2015 The pics below is taken using my 35mm Lux lens on M240 and vertically corrected by LR5. It look good enough for me to do without a Tilt Shift lens. I sometimes take shots like this with a bit wider lens e.g. 24mm and shoot straight. As a result I get a lot of foreground, but remove it by cropping the photo rather than using 35mm and a vertical correction available in LR. Yet, the software corrections are quite well these days. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted January 6, 2015 Share #46 Posted January 6, 2015 The pics below is taken using my 35mm Lux lens on M240 and vertically corrected by LR5. It look good enough for me to do without a Tilt Shift lens. Perhaps there is something I've missed. Can anyone kindly comment over my statement? I often use a similar method as my tilt shift lens, a Hartblei Super Rotator 80mm, is a) too long for this sort of shot and not very high resolution. However your post shows a typical problem. After correction of keystoning and any other geometric skewing caused by a wide lens shot from ground level and maybe not at right angles to the object, you have to crop the picture rectangular again. You often end up with what you have, the tops of the chimneys cropped off. The other sort of use of a TS lens, it is pretty much impossible to replicate with a normal lens, which is the Scheimpflug effect using the tilt. Where you get a sloping foreground all in focus by tilting the focus plane relative to the imaging medium (film or sensor). Reverse Scheimpflug you can do in Photoshop (CS onwards) by using the tilt/shift blur to give the miniaturisation/ToyTown effect. Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cirke Posted January 7, 2015 Share #47 Posted January 7, 2015 Advertisement (gone after registration) Perhaps there is something I've missed. Can anyone kindly comment over my statement?yes you missed a small part of the roof, have you already tried a TS lens ? I'd really like to see a Shift 24mm Summicron (no needs for tilt) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sillbeers15 Posted January 7, 2015 Share #48 Posted January 7, 2015 yes you missed a small part of the roof, have you already tried a TS lens ? I'd really like to see a Shift 24mm Summicron (no needs for tilt) No. I have not. If only there is a 21mm Lux with Tilt Shift function which I depend on lots for landscape shots. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cirke Posted January 7, 2015 Share #49 Posted January 7, 2015 No. I have not. If only there is a 21mm Lux with Tilt Shift function which I depend on lots for landscape shots.you should consider a sensor with 100 mp and a 21mm and crop everything ... no needs for long lensesdo you think it will be the same than a 200mm with 12 mp ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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