little people – classic tilt effect

Pawel Olas · October 29, 2012 · photography · 2 comments

A bunch more photos taken with my DIY tilt lens. This time classic use to get the miniature look.
Previous set of street photography is here.






here is what you need:

  • a lens for a camera with a bigger sensor then yours. In my case I used medium format bronica 50mm/2.8 ($150 on ebay)
  • a lens mount for your camera. Cheap Chinese macro extension rings ($8, yep not even ten bucks) work very well. You can use an old broken lens or cheap adapter for m42 etc.
  • something round, like a top of a coke bottle or a toy ball to make the ball socket.
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    I tried a buch of different shapes to find the right size for the socket. As the lens comes from a bigger camera with longer flange distance there is a bit of space for the joint but not too much. If you make it too thick then you will loose ability to focus to the infinity. A toy plastic ball fit my lens quite well but it was way too soft to use. I ended up using it as a form to make more sturdy resin+fibreglass joint. If you have something hard in the right shape you can use it instead of making one. As this is a prototype I only taped the socket to the lens (unfortunately didn’t have black tape). To hold everything together I used a piece of rubber glove, taped on both sides to the lens and to the mount. Looks dodgy but works quite well.
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    Here are profesional conversion done by Maciek. He uses shower heads to do it. Quite ingenious :-). Link

    2 Comments:
    1. Hi, very nice tilt shift photos… I will try it with my Zenith 50mm objective. Do you think it work with Samsung NX200 camera?
      Regards,
      Martin.

      Martin · March 01, 2013
    2. hey Martin.
      it sure will. it will be easier to mount as you have more room between lens and the camera body for the connector.

      Pawel · March 02, 2013

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