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Subject: [Leica] IMGs: Saturday at Big Sur
From: rgacpa at yahoo.com (Bob Adler)
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2011 05:38:55 -0700 (PDT)
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Wise move grasshopper!
 Bob Adler
Palo Alto, CA
http://www.rgaphoto.com




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From: Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com>
To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Fri, September 2, 2011 2:33:22 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] IMGs: Saturday at Big Sur

Bob,
Actually, I decided not to do a stopover in Dubai later this month on the
way back from Masai Mara because I was scared I would buy this camera (-:
Cheers
Jayanand

On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 7:18 AM, Bob Adler <rgacpa at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Well, it's an option anyway...
>
> There have been many non-view camera's with tilt. The Hasselblad V series
> had
> the Arcbody and the Flexbody. Rollieflex had the SL66, and I'm sure there
> were
> others I do not know about. The Alpa series has a component you can buy
> that
> adds 12mm of tilt, but it only works on lenses of 80mm or more and only on
> their
> "short barrel" series.
>
> The Alpa is considered a "technical" camera. All components are
> interchangable.
> There are bodies with no shift, only shift (or rise/fall if you turn it 90
> degrees), both shift and rise/fall and they all take the tilt addition. The
> choices can be quite overwhelming when you go to their site:
> http://www.alpa.ch
>
> It's REALLY a lot of fun!!
> Best,
> Bob
>  Bob Adler
> Palo Alto, CA
> http://www.rgaphoto.com
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Richard Man <richard at imagecraft.com>
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Sent: Thu, September 1, 2011 3:25:06 PM
> Subject: Re: [Leica] IMGs: Saturday at Big Sur
>
> Bob uses an Alpa which does have tilt...
>
> On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Herbert Kanner <kanner at acm.org> wrote:
>
> > Google is my friend. So found Schlempflug theory quickly. I'm behind the
> > times; I thought such adjustments were only available with view cameras.
> :-)
> >
> >
> >
> --
> // richard <http://www.imagecraft.com/>
> // icc blog: <http://imagecraft.com/blog/>
> // richard's personal photo blog: <http://www.5pmlight.com>
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