Hi Steven (Hendrix that is...
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First of all,great that you are here to answer questions that we have! Since this product is absolutely new on the market (I was dreaming about something like that for a long time!) and so versatile I guess everyone has very special needs and questions at hand.
For me,this will be the cheapest way to get high quality results with movements for the first time ever. I was always very keen about trying out Tilt/Shift lenses at least,or even better,movements. But just getting a T/S lens for one of the systems I had was too expenive so far,there have always been other investments that had to be made before that. Now with the cambo,high resolution,and a big field of view with movements come in reach!
Since it was obviously Cambos goal to keep the package as small as possible I think exactly the right decisions have been made. Tilt and swing with the front standard and shift/rise+fall with the back. My intended use will be to have movements of course,but also to use my X-Pro 1 as a back for Mamiya 645 lenses. I can cover an area of 63,6mm by 42,6mm with the Cambo, so resolution wise this will be a big leap forward. Also it means I will use much longer focal lengths wich in my opinion lead to pictures that seem far more relaxed,without this wide-angle tension inherent in smaller format pictures. Regardless of resolution that is. For me,this is quite an investment none the less,and because of that (and because I like to get every possible piece of information of the equipment I intend to buy..) I got a few questions:
First of all,I never found that anywhere.. Is it 12mm of rise and 15mm of fall,or the other way round? doesn´t seem very important,but since I am into landscape I will be tilting the lens downwards most of the time,wich means that the projected image circle will move upwards and if I got 15mm of fall I will loose more sensor real estate quicker. Not a big problem,but anyway..
Next question would be: In general,and because of the earlier mentioned possible problem,what do you think is better to use,Mamiya 645 or the RB/RZ lenses? I would like to use the 645 ones because they are smaller,and there is no 35mm for RZ anyway. I have no experience with neither of them. Of course the image circle projected by the 6x7 ones is much bigger,what do you think about the resolving power?
Do you think it is possible to use the whole tilt with 645 lenses,or say at least 7-8 degrees? The two standards are pretty close,and there is the bellows in between that uses some of the space I guess...
Thanks in advance!
Lorenz