SL66 PCS-Rolleigon 75 mm f/4.5 amount of shift at infinity

[Martin Dyde]

[Martin Dyde]

P.S. Also, can anyone say approximately how much rise/fall (mm) it gives at infinity (assuming no other movements)?

Thanks again.

[Martin Dyde]

By the way, these are the kinds of things I'd like to use it for, for which it would have been very helpful:

(The first one was taken with an SL66 without rise/fall, the second with a Hasselblad Flexbody, which gives some rise/fall, but only a tiny amount for most lenses.)

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[1highroller]

Hi Martin. I have not used a PCS but a friend had one and I am familiar with the lens and adapter setup. Unlike Hassy, the Rollei approach uses a ball in socket and Rodenstock WA lens so it has much more shift, albeit with only a normal lens. It is a costly rig. The German language description states a 13 degree shift which if added to the 45mm vertical angle of view of the lens is a lot of rise (or other shift). It is expensive and, to my taste, unwieldy, so I passed on his offer to sell. My friend has died and I do not know what became of the PCS.

[Martin Dyde]

Thanks very much for the info.

I think I've come around to the same opinion that it's too unwieldy (and not really wide enough by itself, and horrendously expensive) to be worth bothering with for landscape photography. I'm actually experimenting with whether I can carry a Hasselblad SWC (in addition to my main SL66 system), since that can handle both ultra wide angle (uncropped), or wide angle with rise/fall (by cropping it a bit, which still gives sufficient resolution for my needs -- much better than the SL66 40mm lenses, especially in the corners).