imagemeister Loc: mid east Florida

Thought this might be of interest : http://www.ebay.com/itm/130667862826?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649 - I think I am getting one .....

Danilo Loc: Las Vegas

Interesting item, what will you do with it?

Nikonian72 Loc: Chico CA

Ships from Kiev, Ukraine.

Blurryeyed Loc: NC Mountains.

I don't see any electronic pass through, I would be interested in knowing if you retain control over your shutter... Seems interesting I guess that it rotates allowing you to improve the focal plane.. If you get it please let us know what you think of it.

imagemeister Loc: mid east Florida

What I would do with it is mount it on the front of my bellows and mount my enlarging lens on the front of it. Set the camera for aperture priority and shoot away. You could use it with any manually controlled lens - but only for close-ups. There is also a version of this for M42 pentax screw to Sony NEX and I believe it would allow the M42 lens to focus to infinity - which would have great application especially with moderate wide angle lens !

Nikonian72 Loc: Chico CA

We await your results.

Danilo Loc: Las Vegas

Great idea with the enlarging lens. Too bad it isn't a variable tilt, but I guess it would be lots more $$ if it was. Be sure to keep us posted, Mr. Meister (errr...) Mr. Image!

smcaleer Loc: Dearborn Heights, Michigan

I'm new to photography, but already am hooked on close ups/macros. What is the macro tilt and how is it used?

Blurryeyed Loc: NC Mountains.

There are folks here that could explain it much better than I can but if you were to look up tilt shift lenses you would find that they are pretty expensive and the primary use is for architectural photography. It allows you to angle the lens and change how the focus plane hits the film or sensor, think about a macro shot that is not aligned with the subject, only a very thin slice of the photo will be in focus, a tilt shift lens allows you to adjust the lens changing both the plane of focus and to cure some of the line and perspective distortions caused by wide angle lenses as I understand it... They are also great creative lenses for creating the toy effect as they can be used to create a thin area of focus while distorting and blurring everything else in the photo... modern cameras are building the toy effect into their onboard processors, but not as good as the real thing.

I can see that the adapter could be useful in macro as positioning your camera and getting the focal plane just right can make a big difference in the quality of the shot... we are waiting for imagemiester to buy the adapter and give us a report.

smcaleer Loc: Dearborn Heights, Michigan

Thank you for your reply. I think I'm still too new to understand what you just said :). I think I need to practice and read a LOT more.

Nikonian72 Loc: Chico CA

I do not know of any photographer who is using S&T in macro-photography. The OP (original poster) has not yet either, which is why we await his results.