I follow this thread from the beginning (I became "addicted") and every day is a surprise with the fantastic images I find here... compliments everyone, I have great admiration for most of you
Manuel
rji2goleez wrote:
Hi Rich. I'm not familiar with the Actus Cambo system so I went to their site to explore it. I'd be interested to hear how and where you sue this system and beyond maybe tilt/shift, what you get out of this system that you can do with traditional camera/lens combo.
Bob
Hi Bob,
With my Cambo Actus and my A7r cameras I can use a variety of my Leica R lenses that will offer at least some degree of shift and quite possibly tilt and swing. These include such lenses as my Leica R macro (and many other macro and macro photo lenses) lenses, Leica R 28mm f2.8 Elmarit V2,Leica R 50mm f2 Summicron, Leica R 35-70mm f4 Vario Elmar lens as well as possibly my Leica R 180mm f3.4 Apo Telyt and my Leica R 70-200mm f4 Vario Elmar lens. Additionally, I can use my Leica R 28mm f2.8 Super Angulon PC lens as basically a Tilt and Shift lens. Additionally Canon T/S and Nikon T/S lenses and others can be used as well as Medium format Hasselbald, Mamaiya, etc. lenses, large format and a variety of Enlarger Lenses, particularly the latest Rodenstock Apo Rodagon N and Schneider Kreuznach Apo Componon HM lenses can be used with the camera.
One really usable capability with the Cambo Actus is for the purpose of flat stitching (for large files) which allows for the shift to be done where it should be which is for moving the camera/camera sensor rather than the lens which can introduce all kinds of parallalax. For me, I have a number of Leica R lenses as well as some Large Format lenses to use with my Cambo Actus along with 4 very small, extremely sharp, and extremely light Rodenstock Apo Rodagon N and Schneider Kreuznach Apo Componon HM lenses that will allow for a lot of shift (used for perspective control as well as for flat stitching at the rear of the camera) and for tilt and swing.
First attempt at doing macro with my new Vello extension tubes. I used the 10 mm extension for photographing this orchid outside my office. With the Loxia 2/35 this produces a magnification ratio of 0.46.
FE55, a little out of its depth here (landscape work). I just know the 35-70 would have done this location far better. Zeiss were right to retain the ZM design for the L50/2, I've never seen a CZ lens disappoint at nature work.
This thread is like watching the Maglev train here in Shanghai whizz past at over 430kph - awesome but there's no way to keep up ! However now I've switched over virtually 90% to Sony from Nikon I'll be here more often
This thread is like watching the Maglev train here in Shanghai whizz past at over 430kph - awesome but there's no way to keep up ! However now I'll switched over virtually 90% to Sony from Nikon I'll be here more often
Wow Ronny & Joshua .. those frogs are killing me ! Wonderful.
I especially like the bokeh on that first frog shot Ronny - even better that I have that lens/camera and know that if I put in the effort and if I can dig deep to find your level of skill (a big if), and a frog willing to pose for me, then maybe I could get something close
