NEX 7 – Large Format Digital Back
I used that combo for couple of product shot assignments afterward, and clients were happy. I am still using it from time to time.
So I got the idea, to put the adapter for Sony Nex on the adapter for Canon EOS, just to see how funny it will look like.
Funny indeed…
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| Sony NEX 7 mounted on Cambo Legend |
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| Sony NEX 7 Mounted on Cambo Legend – nice live view 🙂 |
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| Sony NEX 7 Mounted on Cambo Legend – my little test setup |
As you can see, it is just short of pocket-able camera. But what you get is the best part of any Large Format lens you mount. Even better is, that you can use tilt to increase (or decrease) DOF in macro shots.
The resolution is top notch, (because basically only center of the lens coverage is used). There are also lot of possibilities to play with focus or aperture, once you set your camera at B mode.
I didn’t want to spend much time, so I didn’t properly fix camera to the stand and therefore some slight motion blur could occur.
But here are some sample shots to show you what you get…
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| Sony NEX 7 Mounted on Cambo Legend with Nikon 150mm f5.6 Nikkor W |
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| Sony NEX 7 Mounted on Cambo Legend with Caltar 135mm f5.6 N II |
Want more resolution? No problem… Close the aperture a bit. WOW
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| Sony NEX 7 Mounted on Cambo Legend with Caltar 135mm f5.6 N II |
Interested in creative possibilities of tilt in close-ups? Here we go…
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| Sony NEX 7 Mounted on Cambo Legend with Caltar 135mm f5.6 N II |
Or you want macro. Si seňor, come closer and get the focus where you want. (But as I wrote above, for such a macro (shell is aprox. 2cm big) you need to really fix the camera, and I didn’t, so there is a bit of a motion blur.)
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| Sony NEX 7 Mounted on Cambo Legend with Caltar 135mm f5.6 N II |
To summarize – I would strongly recommend this set-up to anyone who is crazy enough. The only two things that I would like to improve, is to make my Cambo 1/10th of the size and weight, and get some nice real model to pose for free.
In my case, the first, is more probable to happen.
Don’t be selfish, share your thoughts…
Buy yourself some decent Phase One back and attach it to that. 🙂 Tho only new ones have “something like LV” and Im not sure if its possible to focus it without that.
Otherwise, I saw something like that with old 1DsMK2. Seems that good large format lens can outperform pretty much everything. Only downside is that you really need to be slightly crazy and its tripod only. 😀
I’d love Phase one especially IQ series. Unfortunately, they are just too expensive.
I am using this combo with Canon 5D MII for product shots with a very good success, everything else is just pure fun. (If you are crazy enough to enjoy it :-))
I agree that those large format lenses are just amazing, because in those cases only best part of lens projection is used.
sorry for commenting on such an old post.
But isn’t this the same as mounting a large format lens on a sony nex and using some bellows?
No problem, I am still alive 🙂
Basically it is the same, except that field camera like Cambo Legend above, has all sort of geared movements, bringing thus precision in composing. On top of that, using raise and slide of front board (with lens), and capturing each position as a single shit, will allow later stitching with virtually no parallax problem at all. Finally, there are many great (and rather cheap) large format lenses that are easy to mount on plates, but not so on bellows (depending on diameter and bellows system).
All in all, it is not extremely practical, but you might find some specific use for the system like this.
Cheers,
Viktor