http://www.zoerk.com

They claim that their gadgets can add tilt and shift capabilities to 35mm cameras. Sound sweet but rarely heard about this brand. Does anybody have any experience about these weird accessories?

-- Alex Szeto (bearbiscuit@hotmail.com), February 19, 2001

Answers

Thanks for the link to the Zoerk site!
I see they do an adapter from Pentacon six lenses to a Mamiya 645 body. I wonder if their prices are reasonable?

-- Pete Andrews (p.l.andrews@bham.ac.uk), February 19, 2001.

I have not used them. Note, however, that you have to buy both the Zoerk adapter AND a medium-format lens. Thus the total price is of the same order of magnitude as buying a 35mm-camera-brand tilt-and-shift lens.

Arsat, an East European manufacturer, makes a tilt-and-shift lens, available in a few formats, that is priced significantly lower than the camera-brand t&s lenses. A Photo.net thread archived a few years ago discussed the Arsat, but nobody had actually used it, so it was all speculation.

Popular Photography published articles on T&S techniques and devices in August 2000. They talk about the Zoerk, but not about the Arsat.

-- Michael Lopez (mlopez@ers.usda.gov), February 21, 2001.