In Praise of... Shift Lens Adapter on Fuji GFX 50s ii
One of the ways I justified to myself the expense of my Fuji GFX 50s ii medium format digital camera was I could get adapters and make use of the large number of medium format and 35mm lenses I already have. I have made a few posts about my experience, one of which is here ... I ended up getting a Kipon shift adapter for my 645-lens adapter. It is more expensive, bulkier and heavier, but I have a lot of 4x5 experience and often use tilt and rise and thought it would be useful to play with. Tilt is less important I think as depth of field control on the smaller sensor is less of a problem. Initially, however, I thought the best use would be taking very large, stitched photos by shifting the lens and then rotating it to create a lot of overlapping images. Alas I haven't tried this yet. For those unfamiliar with shift lenses, I give the following simple example. These photos were taken from the same fixed position on a tripod pointing at the same point. The only changes m...