Wildflowers

I went out to photograph some nice wildflowers I had seen near where I live and decided to bust out the 4x5 to make use of the tilt-shift features that all view cameras have. I shot some Velvia that it will be a few weeks before I get a chance to develop it meaning the flowers will be long gone. However, I also took my Canon 50D and a lensboard I had adapted to use the Canon on.

Meaning I was able to use my DSLR on my 4x5.

Canon 50D on an Arca-Swiss Discovery 4x5 with a Nikon 210mm lens.

See more about using this set up on my Large Format Blog

http://thelargeformatcamera.blogspot.com/2012/04/spring-flowers-digital-4x5.html

And another, also from the 50D on the Arca-Swiss 4x5.

And one of the setup. This is my Arca-Swiss 4x5 and I modified a lensboard to mount my DSLR.

Darren, great shots and a unique way to use you 4 x 5 and DSLR. I have never seen this setup before.

Thanks Tom. A digital back is way beyond my budget but with the modular nature of an Arca-Swiss camera all I had to do was get a flat lensboard and glue a cheap $9 eBay extension tube to it and viola a mount for the DSLR.

It can sometimes be fun. Although I have to say I generally prefer to be doing either large format film or the DSLR. Mixing them makes a big big big pack.

That's really a cool setup, Darren. Great shots too! Thanks for sharing...