Offering extensive perspective and focus control along with the convenience of working with your digital camera, the black ACTUS-G View Camera Body from Cambo effectively transforms your digital camera or back into a digital view camera. As the core component within a modular system, this view camera body serves as the primary piece from which you can pair a digital camera body with a variety of lenses to reap the benefits of geared camera movements for correcting perspective distortions, achieving an extended depth of field, or producing creative selective focus effects. While resembling traditional large format view cameras in function, the ACTUS system also echoes the compact form factor of the digital cameras it is designed to be paired with and is optimized for use in both the studio as well as on location.

This view camera body is delivered with a 6.1" monorail as well as a 4.9" bellows to permit working with a variety of lens and camera types. The monorail is designed to fit within the Arca-Swiss style quick release system for easy mounting to a tripod, and is also fitted with both 3/8"-16 and 1/4"-20 mounts for attaching quick release plates. Optional lensplates can be added depending on your desired lens type, and the monorail and bellows is also interchangeable with optional wide-angle and longer versions of each.

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A full system of movements offers extensive control over perspective and focusing settings. Geared on-axis tilt and swing movements are performed on the front standard and the rear standard permits geared rise/fall and horizontal shift movements:

• Rear Rise/Fall: +0.5", -0.6" / +12mm, -15mm
• Rear Shift: +/- 0.8" / 20mm
• Front Swing: 360°
• Front Tilt: +10°, -9°

• Requires additional AC-792 or AC-793 Bayonet Holder, for use with Fujifilm GFX or Hasselblad X1D camera systems; AC-78E Bayonet Holder and dedicated camera mount bayonet, for use with Canon EF, Canon EF-M, Nikon F, Leica M, Sony E, Pentax K, Micro Four Thirds, Olympus OM-D, or Fujifilm X camera systems; or ACDB-989 SLW Interface Adapter Plate Holder and ACDB-series bellows, for use with select digital backs.

• Revised rear standard features geared horizontal shift and is compatible with removable bayonet holders.

• Both fine geared and quick-slide focusing adjustment types are available.

• Bellows and monorail focusing allows you to achieve closer focusing distances without the use of extension tubes or other macro attachments.

• Zero-position clicks are incorporated into each movement type for more intuitive handling.

• Monorail is compatible with the Arca-Swiss-style quick release system and also features both 3/8"-16 and 1/4"-20 mounts.

• Front tilts and swings allow you to alter the plane of focus for employing selective focus techniques or Scheimpflug settings for extensive depth of field. Additionally, these tilt and swing movements are used to correct for convergence and other perspective distortions.

• Rear horizontal and vertical shifts allow you to move the camera position while retaining the same lens position, making this configuration especially ideal for stitching multiple exposures without having to adjust the lens.

• This black finish body is anodized for greater durability and scratch resistance.

• Compact overall form factor is relative to the size of DSLR and mirrorless cameras.

As the central component within the modular ACTUS system, this view camera body serves as the means to which you can attach a variety of optional lens plates and camera bayonet mounts. Additionally, besides the standard included bellows and monorail, a variety of optional bellows and monorails are available for wide-angle and close-focusing/macro shooting applications.

Related Questions and Answers

Q: 1. Will my Canon EF lenses give adequate circle of coverage or will I need to purchase a large format lens?

A: You can use your Canon camera but you need to use large format lenses.

Q: 2. I also have Hasselblad X system digital back, Do I simply buy a rear plate for the digital back and I can use the same camera body?

A: This version would be needed for the XCD mount lenses and camera: https://bhpho.to/3ylTJ88

Q: 3. Hello. I own two DSLR bodies, a Canon Rebel SL1 with APS-C sensor and a Nikon D800 with a full-frame sensor. I also have a large array of Nikkor full-frame lenses. May I use the Actus-B2 with Canon EF mount to pair the APS-C Rebel SL1 with a full-frame Nikkor lens to provide a greater circle of coverage for view camera movements? Thank you very much.

A: This will not enable the use of Nikon lenses on an EF body; the purpose of this device is to use DSLR lenses effectively as a view camera (large format). You can instead use an adapter.

Q: 4. HI~Can I use a Canon 17mm TS-E lens? Is there any problem with the image circle? If possible, is the focal length maintained at 17mm?

A: Most would not use a tilt shift lens on a device that has tilt and shift. But technically it should work. You will need this Canon EF adapter, Cambo ACB-CA Lensplate with Canon EF Bayonet Mount (Black) BH #CALPCELBB • MFR #99070720 https://bhpho.to/3am0oSh The lens is very wide but covers full frame format. It does depend on the camera you are attaching to the setup but in general it will cover the image and be 17mm.

Q: 5. does this work on the Canon 5ds r camera?

A: Yes, this is compatible with the Canon 5DS R.

Q: 6. Nikon D810. Carl Zeiss CF 80mm. What Actus would bring them to work like a view camera please. I want the recipe, cookbook?

A: The Cambo ACTUS-B4 View Camera Body is only available matching camera and lens: there is a Nikon version that will work with the D810 and a Nikon F-mount lens and a Hasselblad version that will work with a Hasselblad XCD camera and Hasselblad lens.

Q: 7. Are these bellows made of leather or synthetic?

A: Yes, the Cambo AC-214 Long Bellows for ACTUS is made of genuine leather.

Q: 8. What's the smallest these bellows can compress? I'm curious if I can achieve infinity focus with them.

A: If the Cambo AC-214 Long Bellows for ACTUS is fully compressed, it will create a space of 20mm between the lens and the camera.

Q: 9. Will this adapter work with the Panasonic S1 camera and its L-mount?

A: Yes.

Q: 10. is the autofocus working too or will become manual focus?

A: Manual