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PocketPANO Tilt Shift Frame

Started 8 months ago | Discussions thread
Sittatunga Veteran Member • Posts: 5,413
Re: PocketPANO Tilt Shift Frame
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Martin Erik Andersen wrote:

Has anyone here tried the pocketPANO "Rear Tilt 'n' Shift Frame"?

https://www.pocketpano.de/english/rear-tilt-n-shift-frame/

I wonder about the mechanical strain of a weight overhang like that. To me it looks a bit hazardous. Especially in conjunction with the handling of shifting and tilt. I could imagine a lot of stress on the various joints and the mount of the lens.

I haven't. I use the Rogeti TS-E frame, which clamps around the tilt stage, hiding the tilt knob. It costs half as much again, stops me using tilt, but looks more rigid and better balanced and has spirit level vials built in. Obviously that completely missed your purpose of being able to use tilt.

The other thing I can use instead of the frame, is an iShoot Arca-Swiss EF-EOS R foot that clamps around my mount adapter. The front of the foot doesn't extend to within 30mm of the nodal point for the lens, so, for panoramas,  I have to use a long Arca-Swiss foot screwed into the tripod socket of the mount adapter foot, but that does allow me the tilt function. It also limits me to landscape format because of the cutout for the lens release. A second cutout for portrait format would coincide with the upright for the foot.

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