I likely wanted to forget the surcharge for the engineering. They
charged me an extra $200 for it, which did not likely offset the
hours of fussing with the
design and custom fabrication. I would surmise as they would have less
work now to make a replicate but you would have to e-mail an inquiry
as to the price.
They did not put in the aperture stop down pin and offered a full
refund including all shipping costs both ways. I responded that they
would have to pry it out of my cold dead fingers. The pin is in there
just fine now--John did a neater job than I could for sure.
1) You can see the internal release tab in my images of the adapter.
One has to reach inside it and release a tab to remove the adapter from
an OM body.
2) They provided a half dozen self adhesive circular Teflon strips
that fit along the outside of the adapter to cover all screw holes. I
hadn't removed the
protective backing yet in image 9 of my series, but you get the idea.
It does NOT affect the registration distance.
3) I should have been clearer. Once tilted and framed one can just
shift to obtain the other images for the pano--yes just a pano using a
shift lens with tilt.
The cam should be moved in the opposite dir as the same amount of the
shift if there is something close of course to prevent parallax errors.
4) Yes the framing changes with the tilt, but once adjusted to one's
liking and focused and tilted properly (read the optimum tilt from a
graph) (I can email that to you off list) just shift away w/o
readjusting anything else except the cam position of course if
necessary. It is a tad fussy of course, but it works well and Dr.
Diffraction
can be dealt a serious blow as larger apertures can be used. It packs
easily for trips.
Rushing at Work Still, but should Have Been Clearer, Mike
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