Hassy to 35mm body adapter with tilt/shift

[niloy_hil]

I know the fixed Hassy to 35mm body adapters are made by Kenko, Tamron, etc., but who makes ones with tilt/shift capability?

Price?

 

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Noloy Hil

[robert_monaghan]

The simplest approach would probably be to use a standard 35mm tilt/shift

bellows, such as some high end OEM (Nikon) or Spiratone Macrobel series-II,

if I remember correctly. These bellows provided some tilt/shift

capabilities of sorts at the front standard. You use the adapter to mount

the lens onto the bellows (or zoom extension tube?) as if it were a

preset nikon lens (no automation)

 

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Since my Hassy to nikon adapter is only a 3/8ths inch thick metal ring,

you have to use something between the Nikon body and the lens to bring the

lenses into infinity focus (the hassy 500/2000 mount is 74.90mm lens mount

to film plane distance vs. nikon bayonet mount 46.50mm lens mount to film

plane (lens registration distances from W.J. Markerink's handy page at:

http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/mounts.htm So you have to use

something to provide the "missing" 74.90-46.50mm distance to get infinity

focus - and even more to do closeup work. That's where a bellows comes in...

 

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By using a bellows, you also get extended closeup range too ;-)

 

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A more interesting MF bellows might be the tilt/shift bellows for the older

Bronica S2/EC/S/C series - which provided tilt/shifts and continuous

focusing from infinity to closeup (limited tilt/shift at infinity,

though) for standard Bronica Nikkor/Zenzanon/Komura lenses which was

mostly used for closeup work to map focus/DOF to closeup subjects - but

also extended to infinity thanks to Bronica's unique focusing mount.

With the right adapter, you might be able to mount it on 35mm lens mounts.

See http://www.smu.edu/~rmonagha/bronica.html for more details and photos...

 

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Personally, I never saw much use for mounting hassy MF lenses on my

nikons - the 35mm lenses were quite good, and for closeup work the

micronikkors had plenty of coverage even with tilts/shifts, and my

bellows provided auto-diaphragm automation lost using the adapter.

 

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A 4x5 or even 2x3 view camera with movements would be a lot cheaper than

hassy optics to get flexible movements and larger image size for most uses.

 

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Why not use tilt/shift bellows with medium format lenses on nikon 35mm,

say, in place of expensive or unavailable nikon tilt/shift lenses? The

short answer is that most medium format lenses - even wide angles - are

normal to telephotos on 35mm, so you can't win ;-) A 28mm lens is the PC

lens of choice on Nikon 35mm, IMHO, but try to find a 28mm anything in

medium format, let alone at a reasonable price ;-)

 

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However, there is also a set of tilt/shift lenses from Kalimex Corp. and

they also make a nikon and pentax M42 screwthread adapter for their

lenses ($35 US), so perhaps this will be of interest? Zorkendorfer might

also make a custom adapter, but it would be pricey, I'm sure. More pricey

is the $2500 used med. fmt super-angulon PCS lens for the Bronica

ETR/S/Si which is featured, thanks to Tom White, at my new pages on

bronica etr at http://www.smu.edu/~rmonagha/bronetr.html - lens envy alert!

 

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see http://www.smu.edu/~rmonagha/mf/links.html for links to Kalimex etc.

see http://www.smu.edu/~rmonagha/bronhb.html for homebrew lens hacking ideas

 

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hope this provides some ideas and alternatives - good luck - bobm