Creating Landscape Photos with a Stitching Adapter for APS-C Cameras

Our RhinoCam Vertex stitching adapters adapt medium format lenses to a full- frame camera. The adapter rotates the camera's full-frame sensor around the center, or "vertex," of the medium format lens, capturing four photos of different parts of the lens's image circle. You then stitch these four photos together in post, creating an image that gets you close to the medium format field of view of that lens.

RhinoCam Vertex has been popular with our customers who enjoy landscape photography but want to create something a bit more unique. These adapters have been especially popular with photographers who own medium format cameras and lenses but want to experiment by using those lenses on their digital cameras as well. But for those who aren't invested in medium format gear, we may still have a RhinoCam adapter for you.

Introducing our APS-C line of RhinoCam Vertex adapters! These adapters work just like our standard RhinoCam adapters, but they're made especially for APS crop sensor cameras. We currently offer APS-C RhinoCams for Canon EF-M, Sony E, and Fuji X cameras, and they support adapting Canon EF, Canon FD, Minolta MD and Nikon F full frame lenses.

The stitching process is identical, but on a smaller scale. APS-C RhinoCam Vertex adapters rotate a camera's APS crop sensor around the vertex of a full-frame lens. You capture four photos of different parts of the full-frame lens's image circle, and then you stitch these four photos together in post for a full frame+ stitched image. I say full frame+ because you're actually capturing more of the top and bottom of a full-frame lens's field of view than you would capture with a full frame camera.

In this demonstration, I'm using a Sony A6700 APS-C camera and a Canon EF 11-24mm full frame lens. The adapter is fully manual and has no electronic control of the lens, so we're limited to using its widest aperture. We rotate the Sony A6700 to the adapter's four capture points, take four photos, and use Photoshop's photomerge function to stitch them together for a final square image.

RhinoCam Vertex isn't for everyone. One of the jokes we see in online comment sections a lot is "why not just take a few steps back?" And that's a valid point. If you just want a wider shot, take a step back, take a photo and crop it square. But the RhinoCam Vertex gives you something more unique than that. By stitching four photos of different parts of a lens's image circle together, you're getting both a higher resolution image and capturing more of the adapted lens's field of view, which, if paired with an interesting lens, can help you capture more of that lens's unique characteristics.