Home made tilt/shift is a perfect Sunday.

humberklog

I made this today and it works, not beautifully but it might....



It's lovely to take apart a lens or a camera to see what's going on. I bought a bike wheel tube and got busy. This is a proto type on an old scatched lens but now I've figured it out I'm gonna put some thought and effort into making it more workable and nicer looking.

Has any one ever attempted their own? Any pit falls to look out for (other than doing tilt shift photos:pac:)?

humberklog

Rereggie Perrin

Cool! Good luck with it.

humberklog

Rereggie Perrin wrote: »

Cool! Good luck with it.

Yeah, now what's shown works but the innards needs work in that they're important in themselves but there's part that can be removed in order to bring the lens in cleaner and more manouverable for better effect.

The guide book would have you using a hollowed out plastic body cap to grip the body, that to me is really unsexy so I'm using the original connecting from the lens. Much nicer.

Rereggie Perrin

humberklog wrote: »

Yeah, now what's shown works but the innards needs work in that they're important in themselves but there's part that can be removed in order to bring the lens in cleaner and more manouverable for better effect.

The guide book would have you using a hollowed out plastic body cap to grip the body, that to me is really unsexy so I'm using the original connecting from the lens. Much nicer.

No issues with focussing?

humberklog

Rereggie Perrin wrote: »

No issues with focussing?

I do driift off sometimes but have a tendency to...oh,

Well, good point. Most home made tutorials tells ye to make sure to have it set on infinity before covering it up with rubber. However I've devised a way to keep the focus dial operable. Whether that'll make a difference will have to wait on film and sobriety.

DaireQuinlan

Promac

I have a couple of bashed up nifty fifty's lying around. I might give this a go!

DaireQuinlan

Promac wrote: »

I have a couple of bashed up nifty fifty's lying around. I might give this a go!

Ideally for coverage & lens->mount distance (to give yourself some literal wiggle room) you're best off using some medium format lens, or something off an old folder as I did above. If you strip the elements off the focusing helicoid of a nifty fifty you could probably do it as well, I assume that's what HK has done above.

humberklog

Promac wrote: »

I have a couple of bashed up nifty fifty's lying around. I might give this a go!

Do! Drop in some afternoon and I can show you over a pint. I'm getting the finer doings done professionally, a mate has the gizmos to do the finer trimmings but there's nothing that can't be home done.

@dq, yeah, that's kinda exactly it. More or less I ripped the ap rings out and set it on open as you can go. I'll step it on the shutter speed if needed. AP's something I generally don't give an f about.

Promac

humberklog wrote: »

Do! Drop in some afternoon and I can show you over a pint. I'm getting the finer doings done professionally, a mate has the gizmos to do the finer trimmings but there's nothing that can't be home done.

@dq, yeah, that's kinda exactly it. More or less I ripped the ap rings out and set it on open as you can go. I'll step it on the shutter speed if needed. AP's something I generally don't give an f about.

I wish I could but I'm in New Zealand now

Both lenses are already opened up (they both took a bash to the front which broke the plastic bits inside). So I have the front lens elements and the mount already separated. I imagine it's just a case of ditching the (most likely broken) electronics and having some sort of bellows for movement?

humberklog

Sooooo while away on hols I had the parts cut and filed as needed. A lovely job done too. I popped a roll in and had some tweeking to do. Here's 5 from the first roll. The pics are straight from camera, which is shooting at a wide open f1.7 and varying shutter speeds.



On the way to work yesterday...



The pub after work..



Waiting on the bus...



On le bus home...



There's some getting used to and playing around with but it is a laugh for a cheap and cheerful tilt shift lens.

I'm dismantling a 28mm lens soon and will pop a step by step photo demo on here.

humberklog

It's very nice for portraits too I think.

humberklog

I noticed that when you push the lens out as far as you can kinda get a macro(ish) slant on the pics...

This is straight from camera...

ScumLord

The portraits look really good.