This lens is the equivalent to the 50mm on a 35mm camera. The first lens I used was the 75mm that comes standard with the camera. It opens up so many possibilities for experimenting with different lenses.

One of the most exciting reasons I switched systems was the ability to adapt and use lots of different lenses for this camera. There are a couple of other T&S adapters/lenses (Zoerk, Varioflex) that occasionally appear on ebay.Lenses & Adapting Lenses for the Pentax 645Nii If you don't need to vary the tilt & shift axes independently, another adapter to consider is the German-made Mirex, which comes in several versions, to take either Hasselblad, Mamiya M645, or Pentax 645 lenses much better made than the Hartblei, and works well but pricey, and hard to buy (the guys don't know much English, and apparently still require payment via direct bank-to-bank transfer ). I believe Hartblei's current versions have better optics, but have no experience with them. I had an older 85mm Super-Rotator, which would indeed tilt & shift, via a somewhat crude camming-type action which requires some finger strength but the lens optics weren't very sharp, so I eventually cut them out, and converted the Super-Rotator to a T&S adapter, with a M42 flange, to use with various 'bellows' and Leica Visoflex lens heads (which have better IQ). Hartblei makes several kinds of tilt-shift adapters and lenses the one to get is the Super-Rotator, in which the tilt & shift axes can be varied independently: With most T&S lenses, if it's set up to tilt vertically (up & down, for landscape photography) then it shifts horizontally (for panoramas) with the Super-Rotator, you can make it shift vertically (to put the len's 'sweet spot' at the center of the sensor). I found on the net that a ukrainian company (Hartblei) makes an adapter for them with which you can attache them to a Nikon cam.ĭoes anybody used something like that? Anybody with any experience, how good it would be concerning sharpness etc. Sorrily the genuine Nikons are all out of my price range

I would like to change DOF plane to get shorter or longer DOF. I am longing for a long time to get some Tilt-shift lens for product photography.

Pentacon 6 to contax 645 adapter