Topic: DIY Shift lens results

[Francois]

I don't know if you remember but a while ago I made a DIY shift lens for my Nikon out of a chunk of wood, a reverse lens adapter, a few magnets and an enlarger lens?
Well I finally got a chance to test it and have results to show!

Definition, even wide open, is beyond my expectations. It's almost too good to be something I made.
Here's the samples.

[John Robison]

That’s ingenious. What focal length is the lens?
Years ago I cobbled together a shift lens for my Pen F camera. Since the flange to film distance is 28.95mm there was room to mount OM mount lenses which have a 46mm flange distance.
But with mine the camera mounted to the shift lens rig with a plate that was pressed flat against the Pen mounting flange. I swiped a OM lens mount from a defunct third party 2X converter. That way I could mount my widest lens, a 24mm f2.8 Zuiko, or any other OM mount lens.
Mine only had rise and fall in the portrait orientation. Or tilt the camera 90% for shift. It was a beast, huge and overbuilt.

[Francois]

I'm using an enlarger lens. But this one is smaller than an m39 mount, so I had no way of using it on my enlarger. But since I got it in a surprise box of darkroom stuff, I didn't pay a lot for it. It's a 75mm Schneider so it covers way more than what I need. I could have made it an even greater shift but I only had that small metal disk to work with.