HI eveyone and thank you in advance for your replys.
I have purchaused a hasselblad 907 100c and want to use the back on a technical camera of the pancake type and i am looking at the arcaswiss Cambo and Alpa cameras I do want tilt and to start I will be using hasselblad v lens but I am very open to other brands tho there is very little info out there so any thoughts would be of great help . looking forrward to any thought on the subject
thanks
Mitch
If you're just looking for tilt + rise and fall (or swing + shift with the camera oriented differently) with V lenses, the old Hassy Flexbody would work out well. It has a way to cock and open/close the shutters built into the frame and won't require additional adapters to mount the back. And you can still find (or have made cheaply) V-to-Copal 0 or M39 adapters that will allow you to use medium format tech lenses, so long as the extension from the bellows gives you enough room to focus. It's more limiting than, say, an Actus DB, but it's smaller, easier to pack, and less expensive than the average tech camera. Just something to consider.
wager wrote:
HI eveyone and thank you in advance for your replys.
I have purchaused a hasselblad 907 100c and want to use the back on a technical camera of the pancake type and i am looking at the arcaswiss Cambo and Alpa cameras I do want tilt and to start I will be using hasselblad v lens but I am very open to other brands tho there is very little info out there so any thoughts would be of great help . looking forrward to any thought on the subject
thanks
Mitch
If you start at the top of the thread, you'll see some posts I and others made to help the person make a good choice.
Based on what you wrote in your post, I think you're barking up the wrong tree if you look at pancake style technical cameras. They specifically don't offer tilt and swing on the camera itself. You need to add that via custom lens panels. I don't know if a custom lens panel is available for tilt and swing for Hasselblad V lenses. Frankly, even if there is one, I would not bother because it would cost a lot of money and there are better options.
If you want tilt and swing, you should look at a "rail and bellows" technical camera, such as the Cambo Actus G, the Arca-Swiss Pico or Arca-Swiss F-Universalis. The Pico is a more modern design. I have an F-Universalis and it is a terrific technical camera, but it's a bit on the bulky side. The Pico is a bit lighter and more compact.
You can put your Hasselblad V lenses on any of those three "rail and bellows" technical cameras. All you need is the correct lens board. However, I'm not a fan of using that kind of lens on a technical camera because most of them must be focused by the lens rather than by rail. Were I in your shoes, I would be building up a set of technical camera lenses.
By the way, GetDPI definitely has a much more active medium format technical camera group. The poster at DPReview that I linked you to is the first one I've seen there in a long time. There are lots of medium format folks in that forum, but they mostly use fixed cameras rather than technical cameras.
