{"id":3838,"date":"2010-09-23T00:02:09","date_gmt":"2010-09-22T14:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=3838"},"modified":"2010-09-23T00:05:50","modified_gmt":"2010-09-22T14:05:50","slug":"another-tilt-adapter-for-micro-four-thirds-transform-most-nikon-lenses-into-tilt-lenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=3838","title":{"rendered":"Another tilt adapter for Micro Four Thirds &#8211; transform most Nikon lenses into tilt lenses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LensBaby has just announced a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lensbaby.com\/tilt-transformer.php\">&#8220;Tilt Transformer&#8221; adapter<\/a> for use on Micro Four Thirds cameras (and later there will be one for Sony mirror-less cameras) which allows mounting Nikon lenses and using them as tilt lenses (but not shift lenses).<\/p>\n<p>I would have preferred a Canon EOS mount so we can then use a secondary adapter to mount almost any lens onto it, but I guess Nikon lenses is a start!<\/p>\n<p>In essence, it is a similar design to their Composer but <strong>this design allows the Composer lens to be removed and replaced with a Nikon lens<\/strong> &#8211; not a bad idea at all &#8211; but it will set you back $US350 for the Composer lens and adapter or $US250 for the adapter alone.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dpreview.com\/news\/1009\/10092208lensbabycomposertilttransformer.asp\">dpreview.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Tilts up to twice as far as standard tilt-shift lenses<\/strong> making it  possible to achieve more extreme blur falling off of a very thin slice  of selective focus, as compared to the usual slice of focus width and  focus fall-off of a typical tilt-shift lens.<\/li>\n<li> Built-in mechanism allows Nikon G lenses to function  properly at all apertures. Nikon G lenses do not have an aperture ring  on the lens itself. This <strong>mechanism allows the aperture of Nikon G lenses to open and close  by manually rotating the lens<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LensBaby has just announced a &#8220;Tilt Transformer&#8221; adapter for use on Micro Four Thirds cameras (and later there will be one for Sony mirror-less cameras) which allows mounting Nikon lenses and using them as tilt lenses (but not shift lenses). I would have preferred a Canon EOS mount so we can then use a secondary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[18,193,48,56,158],"class_list":["post-3838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lenses","tag-four-thirds-micro","tag-lensbaby","tag-nikon","tag-sony","tag-tilt"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}