HARTBLEI 45mm Super-Rotator Tilt Shift Lens
General Notes
The medium format wide-angle photographic lens MC TS-PC HARTBLEI 45mm / f=3.5 Super-Rotator has been designed for the professional photographers. Each lens is hand assembled and carefully checked. Lens has a metal housing, no plastics are used. The eight-lens optical system is multi-coated (MC) and has anti-reflection surfaces on the lenses, which improve the quality of the image and increase its contrast range due to the increased integrated light transmission. Each lens element is ground and polished with meticulous care to exacting tolerances and covered by a special multilayer coating to reduce internal reflections, increase transmission efficiency and enhance contrast. Resulting photographic images are of breathtaking quality, exquisite in their definition, luminance and color fidelity.
The lens make it possible to compensate for perspective distortion, to vary the depth of field and zone of sharpness and soften the image if necessary. These lenses allow medium format cameras instead of large format studio cameras to be used which is especially important for photographing architecture, interiors, landscapes, and all kinds of advertising pictures.
At the customer's request, the photographic lens can be supplied with a metal lens hood, especially designed for use with 45mm TS-PC lenses.
TS-PC Super-Rotator - a mechanism for perspective correction by tilting and shifting the lens in any direction.
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| MC TS-PC HARTBLEI 45mm Super-Rotator shifted |
tilted |
tilted & shifted |
Lens Mount Types
The lens TS-PC (Tilt-Shift) Super-Rotator is manufactured with Pentacon Six (identical to Exakta 66, Kiev 60, Kiev 88CM), Mamiya 645, Contax 645 and Pentax 645 bayonet.
All lenses have an integrated (not changeable) mount. To have "universal lens", purchase Pentacon Six lens - the Pentacon Six lens can be supplied with additional adapter rings, for use with medium format Mamiya 645, Contax 645 and Pentax 645 cameras, as well as with most 35mm cameras.
Specifications
| Lens mount type | ― | Pentacon Six, Mamiya 645, Contax 645, Pentax 645 |
| Frame format | ― | 6×6 cm (6×4.5 cm, 4.5×6 cm) |
| Focal length | ― | 45 mm (equivalent to 24 mm focal length for a 35mm cameras) |
| Focusing | ― | manual |
| Maximum aperture | ― | 1:3.5 |
| Aperture range | ― | 3.5 - 22 (manual) |
| Construction | ― | 8 elements in 7 groups |
| Angle of view | ― | 83° (98° with optical unit shifted) |
| Minimum focus | ― | 0.35 m |
| Filter size | ― | Ø82 mm |
| Lens movement | ― | TS-PC Super Rotator, both tilt and shift in any direction |
| Shift movement range | ― | 0 to 12 mm in any direction |
| Tilt movement range | ― | 0 to 8° in any direction |
| Rotation movement range | ― | 360°, with click stops every 15° |
| Dimensions | ― | Ø96×110 mm |
| Weight | ― | 880 grams |
Resolution Tables
The average values of the tests of several lenses performed on the films with the resolution of 200 lines per mm – Kodak T-max 100 by INFPHO laboratory.
Line resolution per millimeter:
| TS-PC HARTBLEI 45mm / f=3.5 |
Distance from the center of the frame: | ||||
| 0 mm | 8 mm | 19 mm | 29 mm | 37 mm | |
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aperture 3.5 aperture 5.6 aperture 8 aperture 16 aperture 22 |
40 40 45 55 55 |
38 38 40 45 40 |
25 32 35 36 40 |
20 26 31 35 32 |
18 22 25 31 31 |
The resolution at 6 mm of shift in lines on millimeter (in the direction of shift / in the direction opposite to shift):
| TS-PC HARTBLEI 45mm / f=3.5 |
Distance from the center of the frame: | |||
| 0 mm | 19 mm | 29 mm | 37 mm | |
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aperture 3.5 aperture 8 aperture 22 |
20 30 50 |
35 / 25 35 / 25 35 / 34 |
25 / 25 30 / 25 30 / 30 |
25 / 20 20 / 16 30 / 27 |
The resolution at 12 mm of shift in lines on millimeter (in the direction of shift / in the direction opposite to shift):
| TS-PC HARTBLEI 45mm / f=3.5 |
Distance from the center of the frame: | |||
| 0 mm | 19 mm | 29 mm | 37 mm | |
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aperture 3.5 aperture 8 aperture 22 |
30 35 50 |
22 / 22 32 / 27 38 / 35 |
21 / 20 25 / 20 33 / 20 |
15 / 10 25 / 15 27 / 22 |
The resolution at tilt (in the range of sharpness) in lines on millimeter:
| TS-PC HARTBLEI 45mm / f=3.5 |
Angle of tilt: | ||
| 3° | 6° | 8° | |
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aperture 3.5 aperture 8 aperture 22 |
35 40 50 |
35 35 50 |
25 30 45 |
The resolution at tilt-and-shift (in the range of sharpness) in lines on millimeter:
| TS-PC HARTBLEI 45mm / f=3.5 |
Tilt / Shift: | |||||
| 3° / 6mm | 3° / 12mm | 6° / 6mm | 6° / 12mm | 8° / 6mm | 8° / 12mm | |
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aperture 3.5 aperture 8 aperture 22 |
37 47 50 |
35 45 42 |
30 40 42 |
28 35 37 |
25 40 40 |
30 40 40 |
The data of the tests of a Nikkor 50mm / f=1.8 AIs lens are listed for comparison (tests are performed on the same technique):
| Nikkor 50mm / f=1.8 |
Distance from the center of the frame: | ||
| 0 mm | 8 mm | 19 mm | |
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aperture 1.8 aperture 8 aperture 22 |
38 40 47 |
40 50 45 |
32 39 45 |
