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I've been using the X2 with a Canon 5D as the back for over a year now. I typically use a

Schneider 28mm Digitar lens for architecture, but also find a Mamiya 35mm and 45mm

useful, too. For studio work, like you write about, I've found the X2 very good indeed. I

use a variety of large format and medium format lenses for such work: 55mm to 135mm,

even a few enlarging lenses (90mm & 135mm) from time to time with good results. I'd

highly recommend your RB lenses and of course the 645 lenses I use.

As your post is a year old, if you're still tracking it, I'd like to read what your decision was

or what your solution ended up being...

-Brad

FYI-the sample I uploaded is actually just a single-frame shot with the X2+5D+28mm

Schneider....

-Brad

Erik,

your post is nearly a year old, and I'd be interested in hearing your ultimate solution, but I

thought I'd contribute. I've used a Cambo X2 with my 5D for over a year and would highly

recommend it. I've used the Schneider 28mm Digitar for most of my architectural work,

but also Mamiya 35mm and 45mm lenses with it, as well as other LF lenses and even a few

medium format twin-lens/leaf-shutter lenses appropriated from an old TLR system.

The 28mm provides great wide-angle coverage on the X2/5D set up as a single-shot

solution, but even wider shots are possible with the horizontal or vertical shifts. Large,

high-rez files are produced from this "shift-pan" technique with great image results, if

you're familiar with large format/view camera movements that the X2 provides. It is

possible to shoot 7 shift frames of the same scene and stitch those together in Photoshop

or the program I use, PhotoVista. Depending on the lens you use, you may see some

vignetting on the outside frames, but that is easily cropped out.

On optical quality, the 28mm is worth the $2000 price tag--it has more resolution than

the 5D can reproduce, and therefore really shines--probably even better with a hasselblad

or mamiya with a MF back on the X2.

One note--to orient the camera horizontally or vertically you must dis-mount and re-

mount the 5D on the X2, but horizontal and vertical shifts are both possible with the 5D in

either orientation.

Well-good luck & I'd like to hear what you ended up working out, if you're still checking

this post!

-Brad<div></div>