NX 500 / Cambo Actus combo...

A lot of the photography I do involves photographing buildings and houses, although it's not, strictly speaking, architectural photography.

To that end, I prefer to correct geometric / perspective distortions in-camera whenever possible.

My usual camera is a Sony A7R (because I photograph mostly at night and have found it performs better overall with low-light, long-exposure photography than either of its replacements, believe it or not), but I bought a used NX500 a few years ago for those times when I need a greater range of rise / fall / shift movements than was possible from the image circles projected by my preferred 35mm format lenses when I am using a larger sensor.

Yesterday, I decided it was finally time to make a proper adapter so I can use it mounted on my Cambo Actus with an external HDMI monitor and this was the result:

I realize few here will have any interest in an outfit such as this, but if you want to use an NX500 or other NX-mount camera body with a tilt/shift adapter, this is a possible option, as I'm not aware of any tilt/shift lens adapters on the market made for the NX mount.

For anybody who wishes to follow in my footsteps, I used a 58mm reverse ring -- it has a filter thread on one side and an NX lens mount on the other and reverse-mounts a lens on an NX-mount body for better macro photography -- then carefully removed the filter threads using my 10" disc sander, followed by hand-sanding the flange smooth and flat using progressively finer grits of sandpaper.

Finally, I drilled and countersunk four mounting holes for M2 screws so I could attach it to the Actus body ... voila!

I've only taken a few test photos with it so far, but they look fine. And so you know, the real reason I went to all this trouble is because it's my intention to remove the NX500s hot filter / cover glass and convert my camera to full-spectrum operation, so I can do IR photography with it by installing various bandpass filters ahead of the lens.