Creating your own shift lens

Hey people! Go to
http://www.creativity-photo.com/articles/item6.html
and enjoy the ingenuity!
Regards
LP

Good idea, but it becomes a macro lens unless you keep it compressed all the time... not very practical. Maybe if some mechanism is added like on "lens babies" to keep the plunger squashed...

Did you see the lens is a 80mm Biometar? It focus infinity.
Regards

how far apart from the body though? This plunger seems to move it away to almost 2 inches....