Beyond just attaching your Canon FD-mount lens to your Sony E-mount mirrorless camera, the Fotodiox Pro TLT ROKR is a sophisticated lens adapter with integrated tilt and shift capabilities. Able to turn your lens into either a perspective control or a creative focusing optic, this adapter has +/- 10mm of shift, for correcting converging lines and adjusting composition, as well as 10° of tilt, for fine-tuning your focus position to either increase depth of field or achieve creative selective focus effects. A 360° rotating mechanism is incorporated into the adapter's design, as well, to permit applying the tilt and shift movements in any orientation required. When zeroed-out, the adapter functions as a simple, manual adapter that maintains infinity focus while requiring manual aperture control, and it features a durable all-metal construction with chrome-plated brass mounts.
- Canon FD Lens to Sony E Camera
- +/- 10mm of Shift, 10° of Tilt
- 360° Mount Rotation
- Chrome-Plated Brass Mounts
FotodioX Canon FD Lens to Sony E Mount Overview
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FotodioX Canon FD Lens to Sony E Mount Reviews
Using advanced lens tricks without breaking the budget
Rather than buying an expensive tilt-shift lens, I decided to first explore the capabilities of such a lens with this tilt-shift adapter. It connects my Sony a6300 APS-C body to a collection of inexpensive Canon FD full-frame lenses. These have the larger field of view required for tilt-shift operations. They also allow me to change the focal length. The tilt-shift motions were smooth and easy, with self-explanatory labels on the adapter. The whole device exuded a bit of overflow grease, which I removed to avoid contaminating the lenses. As described in the following, my results are still experimental. Therefore the rating is still tentative. My interest is mainly in the tilt mode, with the idea of keeping both foreground and background focused in landscape photos, for example a flower meadow in front of a mountain range. While I have not had a chance to get into the mountains yet, I tried a test setup in the attached two pictures. These are end views of a rug on a wooden floor, taken with a 50mm lens at f/2.8 (somewhat cropped). Tilting the lens down by 5 degrees and adjusting the camera tilt to obtain roughly the same frame as with zero lens tilt, I was able to keep the rug and the surrounding floor in focus everywhere. As a result of the axtra detail, the file size increased from 2.92 MB to 4.15 MB. The descriptions of how to optimize the tilt angles of lens and camera are rather complicated (keyword “Scheimpflug principle”). I found an empirical method that took advantage of focus peaking on the Sony a6300. After deciding on the frame and fully opening the lens aperture, tilt the lens to maximize the area highlighted by focus peaking. At each tilt angle the lens needs to be refocused. After optimizing the lens tilt, adjust the camera tilt to restore the chosen frame. Refocus the lens again. To fine-tune the tilt angle repeat this procedure. The angles are fairly critical (better than 1 degree) and require a tripod. When everything is perfectly aligned, the whole field of view goes in and out of focus at the same time. At this point the lens aperture can be closed for extra sharpness.