I use a Sinar P with a Leaf Aptus 22 digital back to do jewelry photography. The Aptus has a live view function which is sufficient for focusing, but it's not really good enough to help me guide my light placement. With jewelry photography light placement is absolutely critical and I have to make adjustments of millimeters. The live on a dSLR is great for this and it would really cool if I could combine the best of both worlds; use a dslr to line up the shot and place the lights and then replace it with the Leaf to focus and take the final shot. There are adapters for mounting a dslr on a LF camera, but the small sensor size on the dslr means that the view is too small. If there were a couple of lenses in the adapter that could focus the LF image down to a 35mm sensor, that would solve the problem. This would look something like a metabones speedbooster for 4x5 (or medium format) to dslr. Has anyone here ever heard of such a beast? At least for me, optical quality isn't terribly important since the final shot is being taken with the Leaf, so a kludge is ok too.
Thanks in advance,
Chad
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