The Linhof Super/Master Technikas are great universal tools but like most foldin gs, are somewhat irritating by the absence of a direct lens downward shift. Inst ead one must work with the back tilt, using sprit levels and being very careful on lens alignment. (Bob, don't you think a Master 2000 with a 20mm down shift po ssibility would be a great tool? I think it would be worse the extra overall siz e of the camera !) Since they wont build one extra for me , I am figuring out a way to improve my takings with wide-angles. I could get a Technikardan, Arca or other compact field monorail, but then, would be somewhat limited on my favorit e long lenses. Screwing extensions, changing bellows or carrying two cameras: no thanks. So I am figuring out a way to work on the lensboard, whether by having a totally excentred hole and working to normal with the lense rise, or an excen tred board that could be turned on either side to encrease shift possibilities i n both sides. Or by having a special device like those made to give shift possib ilities to normal lenses on medium format cameras, but there is very little spac e around the lensboard. Has someone already experimented?
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