Contax 645 Lens Portraits - Hartblei 45mm f3.5 Super Rotator
The Hartblei 45mm f3.5 Super Rotator is a tilt-shift lens built by Hartblei in Ukraine for the Contax 645 mount. Unlike its Zeiss autofocus siblings built by Kyocera, the 45mm f3.5 Super Rotator is a manual focus lens based on the optics of the Arsat 45mm f3.5 from the Kiev 88 system. The Super Rotator's defining features are its extensive tilt and shift adjustments, which allow the user to alter the orientation of the optics relative to the film plane. Shift is used extensively in architectural photography, where it gives the ability capture the tops of buildings without tilting the camera upwards, avoiding perspective distortion. In these sample images, we see the comparison between a "standard" image with the lens tilted upwards and a "shifted" image. Full vertical shift was used to keep the doorway upright in the frame with no converging parallels.
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