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PocketPANO Tilt Shift Frame

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Martin Erik Andersen
Martin Erik Andersen Junior Member • Posts: 43
PocketPANO Tilt Shift Frame

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.

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Canon EOS 5D Mark III Canon EOS 5DS R Canon EF 16-35mm F2.8L II USM Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM Canon EF 70-200mm F2.8L IS II USM +2 more
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.

Martin Erik Andersen
OP Martin Erik Andersen Junior Member • Posts: 43
Re: PocketPANO Tilt Shift Frame

My main reason for looking at the PocketPANO frame is its ability of retaining the possibility of tilt while shifting for panoramas and vertoramas, within the limitations of 3 shots.

The PocketPANO seems to be very convenient and lightweight compared to a dedicated panorama gear setup. But wouldn't like to wear down my Ts-e lenses to quickly due to mechanical stress.

Stitching tilted and shifted photos with foreground elements sometimes gives me issues which I suppose are related to parallax and perspective errors.

Here an example (not a very good photo, and not the worst regarding the errors. Just an experiment from yesterday)

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Canon EOS 5D Mark III Canon EOS 5DS R Canon EF 16-35mm F2.8L II USM Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM Canon EF 70-200mm F2.8L IS II USM +2 more
bobby350z Senior Member • Posts: 1,621
Re: PocketPANO Tilt Shift Frame

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 have been looking at it also. I currently have a Rogetti YSE frame for my 24mm TSE but I need something for my Canon 50mm TSE II and this pocket pano is the only one which allows tilt. I am also worried about the weight and it scratching the lens. I will be using with my fuji GFX100s.

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