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If you own some Olympus OM lens you may be interested in this new accessory: The Kipon Tilt AND Shift OM to MFT adapter is now shipping via [shoplink 40751 ebay]eBay China (Click here)[/shoplink]. But with $280 it isn’t really cheap 🙁
And the also brand new Metabones Nikon G to MFT Speed Booster got tested at SLRlounge. You can order the adapter at Metabones or Amazon US.
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It’s not cheap, but then anything any good usually isn’t. It looks well made but I wouldn’t feel comfortable with it coming via standard post with that value. I’m going to stick with my more affordable (AU$45) tilt adapter instead as this T&S adapter would only be worth it if it’s going to be used enough.
80%+ are going to be happy with tilt only, [which doubles just as well as standard OM adapter] but when you value this to sourcing a Zuiko T/S lens, this price for what you get in the end isn’t so bad. (ebay shipping is guaranteed/backed by ebay, so what’s to worry?)
I’d prefer to have tracking for shipping it.
OM T/S 24 sells for twice the price of that adapter. Arguably a better lens for the job, but to anyone already having a few primes, this looks like a very affordable option to me!
The OM Zuiko 24mm shift lens sells for over $1000, the 35mm 2.8 for over $500 and when you put these on m43 cameras with 2x crop you get a normal/shot tele angle of view so why bother. For $280 you can use the OM 18/3.5 (at least $600) or either of the 21mm lenses (f/3.5 for $500 or f/2 for $1000) and get a more reasonable angle of view.
You really have to ask yourself why you would be getting this adapter/lenses, is it really to control perspective, or is it to achieve cheesy affects that people try and emulate with a liberally applied gaussian blur tool.
Exactly. Some of the people here, including Kipton, does not seem to know anything about actually USING these types of lenses. In addition to what you already said, people should also remember that software processing can also help in getting a shifted image.
Even if it is a native TS lens, there is still no point due to the rapidly decreasing image quality at the tilted end, which makes any such lens for a small format like M43 not worthwhile at all due to the astronomical costs in making and the unaffordable prices due to the limited number of people who will buy them for the tiny bit of advantage. A FF is the way to go for TS applications, even an old FF camera or just rent the camera and lens.
So, one more time – THERE IS ABSOLUTELY ZERO NEED FOR THIS TYPE OF LENSES OR ADAPTERS for M43 or even for APS-C. You understand now?
Yes, I have use them and also bellows.
@Annnymous Your comment is so badly informed it’s not really worth replying to, but you know these adapters use Olympus Om lenses, which have a much larger image circle then the m4/3 sensor, so there is little/no degradation as the image is shifted or tilted, probably less so the when using the tilt shift lenses designed for full frame cameras.
The fact that you can not see a use for this type of adapter does not mean that other people will not be able to find a use for it. There are many uses for tilt shift outside of wide angle and architectural use, for example controlling depth of field in still life, macro and landscape etc.
The adapters enable any of the OM lenses you own to become tilt shift, so if you don’t need wide angle offer more versatility at a lower cost then full frame systems, for instance any of the excellent Olympus macro lenses can now be used as tilt & shift lenses.
Adapters like this help add to the overall versatility of the system, and I am grateful for their existence, even if some might find them pointless.
One thing hardly ever mentioned about T/S lenses : it can be used to archive ludicrous large DoF, which can be used in landscaping. No post-processing can emulate that.
My bad, you mentioned it 😉
Have you looked into focus stacking?
http://shuttermonks.com/focus-stacking/
This article uses PS, but there are many dedicated apps that do this.
Canon sells a 90mm TS lens for full frame, and if they still do, some obviously bothers at that FoV, sometimes even on APS-C..
There are also Arsat T&S adapted lenses, but I think this is a much more flexible solution and Olympus (or Nikon, there is a Nikon F adapter as well) are going to have much better glass.
How many people really have OM lenses to use on this adapter? It will work best with wide angle lenses. There is much more choice in FD, Nikon, Pentax, etc. Why not tell us what other mounts the adapter is available in, instead of always focusing on Olympus? Personally, I am only interested if I can get the adapter in FD or Pentax mount.
I think the point is that the OM version is new. The Nikon F has been available for ages.
In this case you’re seeing Oly fanboyism where there isn’t any.
You could quite easily check out the eBay store related to the link or there are other news articles on this site related to Mirex and Kipon Nikon F mount.
would it be possible to use this together with some of the available speed boosters/focal reducers ? Or maybe just get a true legacy TS lens + speed booster
Otherwise i wish someone could somehow release a tilt-shift adapter for native m4/3 glass, just a wild ideas as it’s very hard to find really wide legacy glass to convert via adapters and still get a usable wide lens after 2x crop. maybe they should do an all-in-one speed booster-TS combo, although by that point it would cost the same as a regular TS lens.
This is a gap that panoly is still in debt with the lens catalog but i’m afraid as things are going they’ll charge even more than FF TS lenses.
It makes no sense to design a TS adapter for native micro4/3 lenses. You need some space between the lens and the camera mount to put the TS mechanism. You wouldn’t be able to focus at infinity, which greatly reduces the use of such an adapter. Now, a native micro4/3 TS lens DOES make sense. If Olympus and Panasonic want to create a complete system, they will eventually need to fill this void.
Wonder if we’ll ever get a t&s lens native to m43 mount? This is so niche.
Depends what you mean by “native”. There are already T&S m43 lenses that do not require an adapter, but they were not designed for m43.
Similarly, the Sigma m43 lenses were not designed for m43, but do not require an adapter – they of course still retain full AF and aperture control like any m43 designed lens. In fact they may be better for it being designed to accommodate larger APS-C sensors.
Admin, please tell me you’re working hard on those OMD and e7 rumors from your trusted sources. Have you got a time frame for an announcement or release?
I’ll settle gor scraps…lol
From mirrorless rumors:
“And Olympus will announced the new High End E-M7 the second week of September.”
When a reviewer writes something clueless as “After f/8.0 for the Olympus 45mm and F4 for the Nikon 50mm, diffraction starts to set in”, it is probable that the guy is a self educated internet expert. So take the SLRlounge review with a grain of salt.
Hold on a minute. I wrote that review. What are you talking about? Diffraction did start to set in after f/8 with the 45mm and F4 (on the aperture ring) of the Metabones Speed Booster. Smaller sensors tend to have diffraction creep in sooner than larger sensors? I’ve shot Phase One IQ180 as well as micro 4/3, so I think I know a thing or two about cameras.
– Joe
That second to the last sentence “smaller sensor tend to have….” is meant as a statement, not a question. Auto-correct used the wrong punctuation