Has anyone seen/used Kipon tilt adapter?

In the last week or 2 several Chinese and Hong Kong eBay vendors have begun selling a tilt adapter to fit Nikon lenses to Micro 4/3 cameras. Final cost shipped is substantially less than the Italian one, and from pictures in eBay listings it looks like quality may be OK.

Has anyone here actually seen or used one of these? If you are curious, eBay item numbers are for instance 360264093983, 220605611153 (sorry but I'm not quite sure how to post direct links to the listings). Searching for "tilt lens adapter" will also turn these up, along with others; "kipon tilt" would probably work, too.

I'd be very interested to hear of any experience anyone has had with these.
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Ross Alford
http://www.pbase.com/northqueenslandphotos

Haven't seen the tilt adapter itself, but I've used other Kipon adapters and I've been impressed with their quality. They're much better than other adapters I've purchased from China, so they may be worth a shot.

Seen it and handled it, but haven't not actually take any photograph with it here in Shanghai. It's pretty well made, as with any kipon adapter...

Hope this help.

Ross Alford said:

In the last week or 2 several Chinese and Hong Kong eBay vendors have begun selling a tilt adapter to fit Nikon lenses to Micro 4/3 cameras. Final cost shipped is substantially less than the Italian one, and from pictures in eBay listings it looks like quality may be OK.

Has anyone here actually seen or used one of these? If you are curious, eBay item numbers are for instance 360264093983, 220605611153 (sorry but I'm not quite sure how to post direct links to the listings). Searching for "tilt lens adapter" will also turn these up, along with others; "kipon tilt" would probably work, too.

I'd be very interested to hear of any experience anyone has had with these.
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Ross Alford
http://www.pbase.com/northqueenslandphotos

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Kim

Thanks for the replies; based on the good reputation of the maker and the brief handling experience I have ordered one. Will report re how well it works.

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Ross Alford
http://www.pbase.com/northqueenslandphotos

Just wondering if you got the Kipon and if so how you like it. Thanks for any info!

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Just wondering if you got the Kipon and if so how you like it. Thanks for any info!

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Finally received it. I strongly suspect the seller listed it before they received stock, they took about 10 days after I bought-it-now to ship, and then it took a couple of weeks to arrive, but at least they kept in contact and were very apologetic about the delay. The quality seems high, fits well and smoothly at both the camera and lens mounting ends. The tilt mechanism works fine, you loosen a collar and the lens will swivel and tilt in any direction with up to 8 degrees of tilt. You then tighten the collar and use a couple of locking screws to make sure it does not loosen unexpectedly.

There is no calibration of any sort, so you adjust it purely by looking at the effect on the screen or in the finder, and getting it precisely to the zero position is a matter of judgement, though I think you can get very close by eyeballing the position from the side, probably close enough.

I bought it mostly to try out in manipulating depth of field in macro shots; you can get the effect of a substantial increase in some shots depending on the subject, angle, etc. It works reasonably well for this, though a few more degrees of tilt would make it even more useful; I suppose that just is not possible given the mechanical constraints of the design. I haven't used it for the opposite, "diorama" effect, but I'm sure it would work.

It allows focus to (and past, slightly, I suspect) infinity with the lenses I've tried it with.
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Ross Alford
http://www.pbase.com/northqueenslandphotos

Would you mind posting a link pointing me to your vendor?

I bought it on eBay. There are several vendors selling it. My vendor's ebay ID is muchmall. I bought it from them because their price for the adapter plus shipping in Australian dollars was less than any of the others. If you search for Kipon tilt adapter on ebay you will find it easily.
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Ross Alford
http://www.pbase.com/northqueenslandphotos