Do they work?

[alex_szeto]

http://www.zoerk.com

 

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They claim that their gadgets can add tilt and shift capabilities to 35mm cameras. Sound sweet but rarely heard about this brand. Does anybody have any experience about these weird accessories?

[pete_andrews]

Thanks for the link to the Zoerk site!<br>I see they do an adapter

from Pentacon six lenses to a Mamiya 645 body. I wonder if their

prices are reasonable?

[michael_lopez3]

I have not used them. Note, however, that you have to buy both the

Zoerk adapter AND a medium-format lens. Thus the total price is of the

same order of magnitude as buying a 35mm-camera-brand tilt-and-shift

lens.

 

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Arsat, an East European manufacturer, makes a tilt-and-shift

lens, available in a few formats, that is priced significantly lower

than the camera-brand t&s lenses. A Photo.net thread archived a few

years ago discussed the Arsat, but nobody had actually used it, so it

was all speculation.

 

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Popular Photography published articles on T&S techniques and devices

in August 2000. They talk about the Zoerk, but not about the Arsat.

[dsms photos]

I have not yet seen any results using the Zoerk MFS Multi Focus Adapter, so I thought it would be helpful for others.

 

Here is the link: http://tinyurl.com/7p3e to the examples showing

the use of the Scheimpflug effect by tilting compared to using a higher f-stop. It can be clearly seen that tilt is much better.