35mm On the View Camera

"Worked fine for him." - but probably not with a 35mm camera body strapped to the back like the OP was suggesting Bob. I still think the OP ought to just use 5x4 film in the 5x4 camera that he already has. He could even cut a 24mm wide strip out of the middle of it if that's really the format he wants! Edited February 27, 2017 by rodeo_joe|1

Or he could buy/rent a tilt-shift lens designed for 35mm. I found the ergonomics of using the PB-4 on its side, or the physical constraints of a home-built 4x5 adapter, to be disappointing.

Or he could buy/rent a tilt-shift lens designed for 35mm. I found the ergonomics of using the PB-4 on its side, or the physical constraints of a home-built 4x5 adapter, to be disappointing.

He could use a T/S lens and that would give him a bit of shift control and some plane of focus control. But it would not give him control of subject shape. That can only be done with back movements if the amount of shift in front is not sufficient to get the subject positioned properly in the frame.

In other words, if he is shooting a tall building and raises the lens all the say up and he still can't get all of the building into the frame then he needs to tilt the camera up. That will make the building keystone.

I suspect that many people want a T/S lens merely to get the "toy" look got by tilting the image plane.<p> - Scheimpflug!? Whassat? It's taking pleasure in someone else's misery ennit.

The pleasure of working with 4x5 view camera controls vanished when I transitioned to a dry (digital) 35mm system. Using the 35mm sensor on a system designed for 4x5 film severely limited the usability of the system. At best, it could be used for macro work. Consequently, I shelled out the bucks for a T/S lens. WRT tilting back control, I found it most useful for focus control and, IIRC, I never had to use it to increase the front standard shift. With the T/S lens, I rarely use shift as chromatic aberration shows up on the edges; software correction works well. I do use tilt for near-far composition and focus control.

OP you don't need any $$ tilt shift/pc lenses or exotic bellows

look for a 35mm recommar kodachrome back

you will have to fabricate a board to mount it on.. if you can find one they cost maybe $100

i used one for years to do PC work and use vintage optics with 35mm film.

i recently saw on another website a nikon-made international back/graflock back mount-plate for nikon.

t wasn't too expensive maybe $100 + shipping.

 

good luck !

Jnanian, you might as well recommend buying a unicorn's horn. The Recomar 33 camera went out of production in the 1940s and its 35mm adapter wasn't exactly common even then!<p><br>As for mounting a 35mm camera body to the back of a view camera - we've already been over the drawbacks of going that route.

Very interesting discussion. And to think that I've been subjected to ridicule for using 120 film backs on a view camera.

 

But has anyone else noticed that the original post was in 2003.. and it was revived by someone using a discussion thread to advertise something for sale? Or is there a bug in the new system...

LOL too funny, thanks brian.