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Published: 2008-01-02 20:44:27 +0000 UTC; Views: 2194; Favourites: 16; Downloads: 28
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Well there is good few people asking me how to tilt the lens without any adapters. It's pretty simple really, and it works with 35mm cameras as well as with few medium formats(the ones which doesn't have shutter mechanism in the lens).It goes like this:
Take the lens out of the body and get it back tilted as close as possible /see on the image up here/ lens should be focused on double distance from the object. Be carefull about black corners and tilt the lens with its limits.. Or just as you wish, be creative..
Have fun! And please let me know about your work!
Vlad
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I have a Pentacon Six and I'd love to try this. Thanks for sharing this great idea!
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I totally fell in love with your photos done with this technique!
I'm a Zenit lover. Do you think it's possible with this camera?
SO basically I just take out the lens and hold it a little tilted very close to the body during taking a photograph? so I suppose the best way to focus is to have it set to infinity?
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Hi, yes, it should be possible, just give it a try, shoot what you see through the viewfinder. A lot of vigneting might appear, to avoid that you can try enlarging lens attached to bellows, or medium format lens which also have larger diameter. Experiment, good luck.
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mersi o sa incerc pe zenit
am aflat de la ~beyond-the-light
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Faving this for future reference. Now I just have to dare to do that with my 450D...
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it must work. first i tried that with my 300d actually!
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Oh, well then! Then this will be tried! 
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i did the same thing, dunno about how to focus
if i understood well i should focus on double the distance to the object?
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you can see if you r focusing right clearly when you looking through the camera though. infinity focused lens would be most accurate for landscapes.
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any advice for the exposure? i can only do it on film, since my digital is a compact, so i can't afford to miss too bad
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no compensations needed.. enjoy!
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thanks, i triend one last night, it was rather "blind shot". but i'll give it a go on the daylight today. thought i don't know when i get to develop and scan the film. oh, but these are small details
have fun, i sure will
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thanks. now i just need to have a cam like that .. ..
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this is definitely a helpful tutorial. I am in love with the photo of yours which got the daily deviation today - this is just a wonderful way to add something to photos. you have amazing style -
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that's pretty neat.. I'll have to try it out sometime.
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let me know than! i m currious!
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Caught your messege. Thanks! I have several friends who practice this type of effect only using homemade single element lenses made up of different lens pieces such as loupes, enlarging lenses and so on....fixed onto an extension such as old polaroid bellows, (such as I use on my GW with loupe) plastic garbage bags, etc. only used on medium format SLR's. With the extending bellows, it allows a greater extension and selective focus while composing in the viewfinder. A prime example of this type of homemade set up is by my friend Bill Vaccaro.
You can see that work here:
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Oh, good. 
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pecka...
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uz som to skusal davnejsie...ale az dnes idem kupit emulzie a papier
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no jesne! poznam jedneho co robi tilt shift so zvacsovakom!
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kruci...ja zas robim priestorove deformacie s tymto strojcekom, v kombinacii s pokrcenym fotopapierom to fakt da riadne halusky
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and yea, of course, i'm gonna try this right away!!!
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go ahead! looking forward to see!
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so it's that easy
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hehehehehheehehe
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i was sure you had some secret connections...
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