Steve Hendrix
Well-known member
You also have to remove the Phase back and rotate it manually. It is not a rotating mount like a Mamiya RZ. That is an idea I like even less than a PC cord connection from lens to back. I remove digital backs from the camera as few times as possible. These backs love to attract dust, and outdoors even more so ... plus the prospect of scratching the sensor filter by mis-mounting it when in a hurry is real ... I know three photographers that did that ... unfortunately, I was one of them
What is needed is a 90º V finder with a mask defining the taking area.
-Marc
Certainly a subjective issue, whether to tolerate a sync cable and be able to rotate the back to vertical orientation, or turning the camera sideways to shoot a vertical without a cable. My perspective - we have tons of users who have rotated their backs for years without incident, and backup sync cables are very cheap.
On the other hand, if one is not comfortable removing and rotating the back, there is another solution:
http://www.leaf-photography.com/products_aptus210r.asp
Steve Hendrix