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I thought that I would start a new thread of Photos taken with the Cambo Actus camera that turn other cameras into Mini View Cameras. The camera is particularly useful when used with the Sony A7 series cameras as well as the Leica M 240 cameras. The camera can additionally be used with cameras in the Canon EOS line as well as the Nikon F line as well as mirrorless APS-C and quite probably M 4/3 cameras.
The camera offers the greatest options with the Sony A7 series cameras and the Leica M 240 cameras due to their very short lens registry. In the case of the Canon EOS and the Nikon F line of cameras they can only be used for studio and close-up work due to the camera registry.
With the Actus camera the FF mirrorless A7 series and the Leica M 240 allow the usage of many Enlarger lenses including the latest Rodenstock Apo Rodagon N lenses as well as the Schneider Kreuznach Apo Compon HM lenses to focus from close-up to infinity. Additionally the camera through its growing system including the growing list of lens boards allows for the usage of many old film and newer digital Large and Medium Format View camera lenses in Copal/Compur 0 and Copal/Compur 1 lens mounts to be used with the cameras. Additional lenses that can be used with the cameras with the proper lens mounts include Leica R, Canon EF, Nikon F, Hasselblad, Mamiya 6X7, Mamiya 645, Pentax 645, etc.
Yes the Actus is an expensive option when compared with the Mirex adapters, however, the Actus offers as mentioned the ability to use many lenses lacking helicoids including the mentioned Enlarger lenses as well as View Camera lenses. The Actus also offers the opportunity to move the shift capabilies to where it should be when compared with a T/S lens or the Mirex adapters which at the rear of the camera/lens standard. This now removes the issues of parallax including the opportunity of do multiple exposures for flat stitching either in a single or multiple rows. The Actus, maintains the tilt and swing on the front lens standard (which are geared) and the Rise/Fall, and shift on the rear/camera standard.
For myself, I am using my Actus with my stock A7r and my A7rM V3 cameras. With the camera, I have a Leica R lens adapter that Cambo, Netherlands modified (for free) so that the lens adapter would allow for the usage of my mounting and removing my Leica R 28mm f2.8 Super Angulon PC (Schneider Kreuznach lens) due to the large diameter of the lens mount. With the camera, my Leica R 28mm PC lens can now be used as a Tilt and Shift lens, not only a shift lens. If anyone has the lens or is interested, Cambo now knows how to modify the Leica R lens adapter for usage with this partiuclar lens and to the best of my knowledge they will offer this service at no charge.
I look forward to when Sony will release the A7rIII which will hopefully be a 72 to 80 MP camera to take advantage ot the Cambo Actus.
Additionally, with my Cambo Actus Leica R lens board, I am able to focus my Rodenstock 50mm f2.8 Apo Rodagon N, as well as my 80mm, and 105 f4 Apo Rodagon N lenses from close-up to infinity when the lens are mounted on a Leica M 39mm to Lecia R adapter available from China on eBay. In the case of my Schneider Kreuznach 40mm f2.8 Apo Compon HM lens, I must mount the lens to a Cambo Actus 39mm lens board for this range of focus due to the added depth added by the Leica R lens mount and the Leica M 39mm to Leica R adapter. All of these lenses allow some amount of rise/fall/shift, as well as tilt and swing.
In the past, SK Grimes made up an adapter so that when using a T mount adapter along with my Schneider Kreuznach 120mm f5.6 Makro Symmar HM large format lens to bayonet mount onto a Leica R camera. So I can mount this lens and all of Enlarger lenses onto my Cambo Leica R lens adapter alone as well as when used with Leica R extension tubes.
Below is an image of the camera borrowed from our friends at Capture Integration:
https://captureintegration.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Cambo-Actus-Main-View1.jpg
Below is an image of the Leica R lens board borrowed from Capture Integration:
https://captureintegration.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/ACB-LR_s.jpg
Below are 2 images of my Leica R 28mm f2.8 Super Angulon PC lens which explain the issue when mounting the lens on the Cambo Actus lens board:
Below that are 2 images of my Schneider Kreuznach 120mm f5.6 Makro Symmar HM large format lens and the parts to mount the lens on the Leica R bellows with the 2nd image showing the assembled lens and parts:
Edited on Nov 13, 2016 at 02:33 PM · View previous versions
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