Cheapest tilt shift for EOS 1000

[Mustafa Umut Sarac]

I am looking for a cheapest way to tilt and shift for EOS 1000 ?
Would camera autofocus again ?

Mustafa Umut Sarac

 

[ozphoto]

Auto focus isn't possible on a TS lens due to its nature.

Have seen results from Lensbaby TS style lenses - there are a couple available I believe; with the cheaper one you hold the lens in place, the more expensive allows you to lock the lens where you want the focus.
You could also try the Russian-made versions that are available for Canon EOS - Hartblei or Arsat are two I know of.

 

[iamzip]

don't know how easy it is to get in Istanbul, but www.loreo.com has something called a lens in a cap. they have two versions, a normal one and tilt shift (they call it PC). It's a fixed focus lens. The price is $21 US, so it is certainly cheap enough to just give it a try, even if the quality is not very good.

 

[Mustafa Umut Sarac]

iamzip , thats wonderful , thank you for your advise.
Can EOS 1000 measure light from this PC Cap ?
How can I use filters with it ? Can I basically hold a filter in front of PC Cap and take a picture ?

 

[keithwms]

Well the cheapest is to take a lens and hold it, unmounted, in front of the camera, with something like a black sock as bellows. I have done this using a medium format lens and 35mm body and it actually works quite well, it just requires a little patience and steady hands! Enterprising minds will immediately see how to improve the stability of this rig.

External thread describing some first experiments with this method.

 

[iamzip]

iamzip , thats wonderful , thank you for your advise.
Can EOS 1000 measure light from this PC Cap ?
How can I use filters with it ? Can I basically hold a filter in front of PC Cap and take a picture ?

I don't have one myself - one of those things I keep meaning to pick up. It is a very simple device, fixed focus with a few apertures. The website says to meter manually. I don't think there are any provisions for mounting a filter to it, so I guess you would just have to experiment.

Obviously it is very limited in its capabilites, but it is so very inexpensive, especially when real tilt shift lenses are thousands of dollars. Even lensbabies are hundreds of dollars, and they distort the picture terribly, so unless you'relooking for that kind of effect they are out.

Really, for $21, how can you go wrong?

 

[WRSchmalfuss]

ZOERKENDOERFER in Munich/Germany has some of this stuff available.

Cheers