Originally posted by creampuff The Lensbaby can tilt and swing quite easily but the range of movement for rise/fall or shift is quite limited due to the stiffness of the bellows tube.
I don't own one, but it looks to me like any lensbaby could be improved in the rise/fall department with the following homemade thingie:
a) a platform that would extend out from the bottom of the camera (or, perhaps better, the grip/battery pack, if used). This platform would affix through the tripod mount (and would thus need another tripod mount on the underside, if you wanted to use the whole thing on a tripod). This plate would be approximately 6" x 3" (it appears)
b) this platform would need to be slightly wider than the lensbaby and have two screw posts that would extend from the platform vertically (on either side of the lensbaby). Each of these posts would need a wingnut screwed down to adjust part c (below) up and down.
c) a thin plate with holes drilled at each end (to accomodate the posts in b). This would be the "cradle" that would lift the lensbaby, depending upon the position of the wingnuts/plate
By adjusting the wingnuts you lift the lensbaby in a vertical motion only. The whole thing could be made more adjustable using bellows parts to make the cradle position infinitely adjustable in the forward/back orientation. The other lens orientation (tilt) would still need to done with fingertip assist.
I could be all wet, since I don't have a Lensbaby to try this with. Unworkable?