There's probably an issue with min distance, say for the 35mm or smaller. Often these require recessed lens boards, and while the Actus looks like the standards can go very close, a helical on the wide angle lenses might move them out too far.
We've had these discussions with Cambo in the past - thanks to your input - and you've roughly identified the sticking points. And even on longer lenses - I'm not sure that the lenspanels could be mounted where they sit with the center of the lens lined up parallel to the center of the digital back sensor, zeroed out. That also looks potentially challenging.
But that leads me to ask - other than wide angle - how many of you feel that you'd have interest in a custom lens interface that could incorporate the Cambo helicol mounted lenspanels? Feel free to contact me offline if you feel like expressing interest. I'm not saying -
at all - that this is a possibility, it has challenges, like we covered, but it would be good to know how many would have interest firsthand.
Steve Hendrix
Capture Integration