Did any of you actually use the Mamiya RB67 75mm S/L 4.5 shift lens for architecture?

[Certain Exposures]

I am curious. Was that actually a practical lens and set up for architecture or did/does a 4x5 camera work far better?

 

[BrianShaw]

Yes. Definitely. It depends on the capabilities of the 4x5 camera, of course... some are better sutited or easier to use than others.

 

[Certain Exposures]

"Yes" as in you used the 75mm S/L and found it a practical lens set up for architecture or "yes, a 4x5 camera works far better?"

 

[BrianShaw]

"Yes" as in you used the 75mm S/L and found it a practical lens set up for architecture or "yes, a 4x5 camera works far better?"

 

[Alexander6x6]

The Sekor-Shift has a 124 mm image circle, the biggest among medium format lenses.

It is possible to shoot 73 x 84 mm digital image with the Sekor-Shift 75 using the Fujifilm GFX camera in combination with the dual shift adapter.

 

[Certain Exposures]

Thanks, Brian.

Have you taken images with that combination, Alex? I am interested.

 

[Alexander6x6]

Have you taken images with that combination, Alex? I am interested.

First of all, almost all Mamiya 67 lenses perform great on a digital sensor.

Using the Sekor-Shift 75 it is possible to stitch a panorama with 32 mm shift left/right (20 mm of Sekor-Shift 75 plus 12 mm Hartblei RBZ adapter):

here is the single frame

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This is the Dual Shift with 12 mm adapter shift up/down and 20 mm Sekor-Shift left/right:

The single frame

crop

 

[MarkS]

Professional architecture photographers tended to use 4x5 until digital came along. I would assume that the Mamiya lens is plenty sharp enough, and is distortion-free.
But in fact, it's not very wide, and anyone shooting for pay needs to have more than one wide-angle lens. I was in that business from roughly 1991-2009 and (on 4x5) used a 121, 90, 75, and sometimes a 65mm lens.
And the clients were used to looking at 4x5 chromes. Now of course they want to see JPEGS right away, if not looking over your shoulder at the tethered laptop... I don't think any clients would want to pay for, or wait for, film images.
But for personal photography with your RB, I'm sure the lens would do quite well.