Swings and tilts are normally regarded as the province of large format photography. Both Canon and Nikon do lenses for 35mm but they are expensive and the market is limited.
Link to a Tilt and Shift links site
http://hame.ca/tiltshift.htm
As I struggle with the cold, and it has been very much so here, I have been looking at making a tilt lens. I have an old 105mm enlarging lens sitting around and as it is suitable for printing 6x9 I thought I could take advantage of its large image circle and come up with a cheap solution to solve the lack of dof in close up/macro shots.
Early stages in the development of this, but having seen the cost of the pukka job well worth the effort. This is tripod stuff and cannot be done hand held.
Ideally I need an old manual bellows unit to mount it on as there is no focussing mechanism on the enlarging lens and I have to rely on a sliding plate on the tripod. I dismantled an old 6x6 folding camera to retrieve the bellows as a starter. But a large number of parts would have to be made for it to be a viable solution. Mk 1 is the simplest possible and was made to test the principle and show up things for consideration for Mk2. Saves hours of machining stuff that may end up in the bin.
Materials for Mk1 :
Novoflex 105 mm enlarging lens. 75mm or less do not provide a large enough image circle.
A 40mm plastic pipe connector, a small stub of 36mm waste pipe, 3 pieces of steel rod ( cut down nails would have done ), two are for the swivel and one is a marker to be visible after taping black bin liner to the assembly as a blackout as an orientation guide. A mount removed from an ancient lens. Mount optional as it could have been taped to a 14mm extension tube. The brass screw is to lock the assembly in vertical or horizontal orientation.
Pics attatched :
1) A comparison of No Tilt and Tilt applied to show the effect on dof. These are full frame.
2) Mk1 on the camera.
3) Mk1 with bin liner removed to show construction.
Don