I also had a 35mm, 55mm and 80mm via Ffordes and Teddington Photographic.
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The Mirex seemed like a great option and allowed the use of cheap Mamiya manual focus lenses (and others but I was looking for Sony mount adapters).Ī quick email to check compatibility, £350 down and a short wait (good delivery times) and I had one of them in my hands. However, whilst browsing the subject I came across a review of a tilt-shift adapter from a German company called 'Mirex'. What I really wanted was a couple of tilt shift lenses but I knew there were none available with a Sony mount.
Quite recently I sold all my Canon gear and bought a Sony A900, replacing my 15mm fisheye with an old Minolta 16mm fisheye and my trusted 24-105 f/4 with a ridiculously cheap, heavy and good Minolta 28-135. I can't comment too much about these but looking at various reviews online, the results are acceptable to good unshifted but dissapointing when shifted any significant amount. Simon Miles reviewed one of these in a previous article ' Zeiss Tilt Shift Lenses for your DSLR'. Hartblei have for some time produced their 'super rotator' lenses which are hand made dedicated lenses available on a variety of mounts. And that's only if you use Canon or Nikon - if you use any other brand of camera body you're out of luck. This means a tilt shift collection would set you back approx £4k (ignoring the esoteric 17mm). With everything there is always a downside though and in dedicated tilt shift lenses it is most definitely price. Amateur Photographer who plays with big cameras and film when in between digital photographs.
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