FotodioxPro TLT ROKR - Tilt/Shift Lens Mount Adapter Compatible with Nikon F Mount G-Type D/SLR Lenses to Nikon Z-Mount Mirrorless Camera Body

There is a learning curve that you will experience. First lets talk focal length for focal lengths below about 50mm put your full frame camera in crop sensor mode, this will eliminate the reaching the lenses edge and getting a black vingette at the edge of your photo when shifting the lens. Second, a little goes a long way, you don’t have to push the adapter to its limit when shifting the lens vertically in portrait mode. It performs well as both a tilt and shift lens, allow yourself time and patience as you will be working fully manually. I got it to work with an old AI macro lens, and in macro mode was able to tilt the plane of focus to increase depth of field with ease. Thus far I have just been moving along the learning curve but am eager to put it to real world test in the near future. The fit and finish are excellent and i am not having any issues with this adapter whatsoever. I do use focus peaking and can easily focus. There is no communication of exif data. I chose to put the camera in manual mode with ISO set to auto and can nail the shot after one or two exposures. This adapter is not a toy and is going to provide a great alternative to a pricer T/S lens.

I was very excited when I read about the adapter. I was hoping I could use all my Nikon F-mount lenses. My 16-35 F 4.0 works, but only from 35-24. Everything wider than 24 has a very bad vignetting. Unusable.Also the aperture adjustment does Not show what aperture you are using. All my Sigma Art lenses are not working either. Aperature adjustment is not working at all.

I purchased this after doing some industrial and medical product photography and missing the movements of a view camera. So I'm not doing wonky special effects or artsy stuff, just trying to get more of the product into the focal plane.For that purpose, "it works" to some extent. It's a solid piece of engineering that's reflected in the price; it will let you use "G" lenses without aperture rings (with the usual "what f-stop am I really at?" and the risks of diffraction if stopping down too much). It's a fairly limited amount of tilt, fairly generous with shift. The quality of your lens at its extemes will also come into play, but there's a world of great Nikon F-mount glass out there.The biggest issue you'll have with this is due to its compact and solid nature. You have one axis of tilt (really "one half axis" if you compare this to a view camera with bellows); IE, you can tilt about 12° up, and then you rotate the adapter+lens assembly to set the direction of the tilt. Because of how the tilt is placed, you're also changing the "aim" of the lens - again, if you've used a view camera, tilt doesn't affect framing to a great degree, here it can move the product right out of the frame - that's not a design fail, just the nature of the beast.Tilt is locked or released by a small metal knob; rotation is released with a tiny push button, and the rotation has click-stop detents (feels like every 30 degrees or so). This can get a little crazy, figure out the tilt you want, find the little rotation-release, rotate to set the tilt axis you want, re-frame the image. By that time, the locking controls are somewhere new due to rotation, and with so much going on in such a small space, you've probably moved the aperture setting (which will be clear on the LCD as your exposure will change). So fine-tuning a shot will be a little cumbersome.It's pretty fiddly and takes some getting used to before you get somewhat "second nature" with it. And, downward tilt can be severely limited by by your tripod QR plate - the adapter can bump into any little "lip" sticking out from under the camera. I had to go with a tiny little aftermarket QR setup and screw it to my larger/heavier QR plate.Again, it's a "nature of the beast" sort of thing. But I found several of my wide zooms could use the full extent of the adapter's movements with zero vignetting, even wide open. The only potential "fail" in this adapter would be addressing how easy it is to bump the aperture setting, but then, adding a lock to it would add one more thing to fiddle with - for product shooting with a G lens, I'd think you'd try to determine what F16 is and stick with that though, so maybe even some tape or something would fix that. Aperture-ring lenses make this easier to deal with, just make sure the adapter is wide open.So, in short, it's really well-engineered and well thought out, and my issues with it are more "that's what you get with something compact and simple". I do more commercial video than stills and I'll definitely throw this in the case, possibly some cool b-roll opportunity could come up. I should probably look into a DIY solution using cinema rails, small bellows, and metal lens mounts. I can see it in my head, but this was something quick and easy to experiment with.

I love this adapter, and I can't wait to use my different lenses to obtain the tilt/shift effects. Mind you, I already own 2 tilt-shift lenses, so I am not new at this, but I thought I needed the ability to use ANY lens for T/S. Of course, results are not going to be as goos as a dedicated T/S lens because of the required optics that they have to put in these particular lenses, but they should be pretty close with good lenses attached to this adapter.