Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/09/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Wise move grasshopper! Bob Adler Palo Alto, CA http://www.rgaphoto.com ________________________________ 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> > [ For technical support on ImageCraft products, please include all previous > replies in your msgs. ] > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information