carstenw
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The Flexbody has several problems:A note on the Hassy Flex... David, that is a superb concoction! However, I have some concerns for my needs... The 30 is a fisheye, so the shortest usable rectilinear focal is the 40. Without the Mutar, IIRC the IC is 80mm, so about 10mm of free IC in any direction, correct? With the Mutar, the IC increases, but so does the focal by a factor of 1.4, so your 40 becomes a 56... Looks like a *GREAT* little device, but does not appear to solve two of my main needs -- a hyper-wide rectilinear at 24mm or thereabouts and a sharp 35 focal with enough IC for 10mm - 12mm shifts...
1) the tilts and shifts are on the rear. Okay for shifts, but for tilt, that is exactly opposite of what you want. If the tilts are on the front, you preserve your sensor/film-to-subject alignment. On the rear, you lose it, for example with buildings, so if you want focus on the ground, you get converging verticals... If the shifts are on the rear, as Don mentioned in another post, the nodal point stays in the same position.
2) The Hasselblad lenses mostly don't have large image circles, especially apparently the 120 Macro, so you can't shift much.
3) The wide angle, as Jack mentioned.
The Hasselblad Arcbody is a bit more interesting. Instead of using Hasselblad MF lenses, it uses LF lenses, so larger shifts and wider lenses are possible. It has shift on the rear, but introduces another problem: it only shifts up (actually, back shifts down). To shift sideways, turn the device sideways. To shift down, you need an adapter. Hasselblad did the best with what they have, but it doesn't work all that well. Michael Reichmann has a review here:
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/cameras/arcbody.shtml
Go for the Silvestri. Personally, I want the Sinar P3
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