
Most Hartblei lenses are in medium format but some are available for 35mm SLRs/DSLRs like the sample in Canon. With MC Volna-3 2,8/80mm Lens.Kiev-88 camera is a modular design with an easily replaceable lens, viewfinder, and film cassette The shutter curtain of the focal with the metal corrugated shutters made of stainless steel.

And the P67 75mm shift lens can be adapted. I have the Hartblei 65mm PCs in Hasselblad mount, the Hartblei 45mm PCS (not Super Rotator), the Arsat 55mm PCS (A VERY FINE PIECE OF GLASS. The Zoerk adapter is expensive, but opens the door to P67 lenses. The first odd thing is the name which sounds distinctively German but it is indeed a lens from Ukraine. Kiev 88 Medium Format Film Camera with MC Volna 3 2,8/80 mm Lens.KIEV-88 Medium Format Film Camera. It requires a Pentacon 6-to-Pentax 645 adapter, which is available from Hartblei, Arax, and several others. On an impressive much bigger scale, the company has combined with Carl Zeiss in Germany to manufacture what they call, Superrotators incorporating sophisticated 360 degree shift & tilt. Hartblei and thier USA importer () also sell an 80mm version (a bit longer than I wanted on my APS sized dig) and will (accourding to reports) custom order/asssemble a 45mm version (far more expensive). So let´s have a look at the Hartblei Super-Rotator 80mm f/2.8 MC - a tilt-shift lens (also available as 65mm and 120mm variant). Hartblei also make new products, including the Pentacon Six mount fitted to a version of the Kiev 88 camera allowing a bigger range of lenses to be used. A good superwiide shift lens for APS sized digital cameras still isn't available These are 360 tilt/shift lenses (based on Zeiss medium format lens. Well built (in sort of a 1970s thick metal heavy weight sort of way), reasonably sharp, very functional, and at $330US a real deal! Below is a simple set of pages showing my test if anyone is interested:Īt 65mm this tilt/shift lens is obviously better suited to studio/product shooting than to architecture. Zeiss manufactures prime and zoom lenses for 35mm, 16mm, and 65mm film production. After doing lots of tests with it on my Fuji S2, I'm quite happy.


I've wondered about the Hartblei 65mm Super Rotator lens from the Ukraine for a while, and just picked one up. Oddly, I've gotten more private emails about that posting than DPreview public responces (I'm not sure what to make out of that!).īeing originally (and still) a view camera user, I've really missed "camera movements" when shooting digitally. I originally posted this in the Fuji group, but it is perhaps even more relevant here.
