Does anyone own a Tilt/Shift lens?

topbanana · 2 Dec 2009 at 12:02

And if so, do you use it much? I'm thinking about landscapes mainly

Mud · 2 Dec 2009 at 13:08

I had a Nikon 24/3.5 PC-E...it was excellent optically (immune to flare, excellent sharpness/colour rendering etc, but I wasn't using it enough to justify the expense. Being able to tilt the lens down to maximise DOF for landscapes was a marginal -but real- benefit (for me). You have to really want that foreground to bother.

Derek W · 2 Dec 2009 at 13:14

Someone had a topic / post in the post your pics thread which linked a site which mocked up the tilt shift effect online. Maybe worth looking at that instead of forking out for a lens which you may or may not get a lot of use out of?

robmiller · 2 Dec 2009 at 13:33

Derek W said:
Someone had a topic / post in the post your pics thread which linked a site which mocked up the tilt shift effect online. Maybe worth looking at that instead of forking out for a lens which you may or may not get a lot of use out of?

Err... tilt-shifts have more use than making things look miniature:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheimpflug_principle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perspective_control_lens

mctiny · 2 Dec 2009 at 14:56

Derek W said:
Someone had a topic / post in the post your pics thread which linked a site which mocked up the tilt shift effect online. Maybe worth looking at that instead of forking out for a lens which you may or may not get a lot of use out of?

This site?

http://tiltshiftmaker.com/

greedy123 · 2 Dec 2009 at 17:02

I've just bought a Canon TS-E 24mm for architecture photography, its what they are mainly used for. Not had the opportunity really yet to use it but looking forward to trying it out this week!

olv · 2 Dec 2009 at 20:44

Derek W said:
Someone had a topic / post in the post your pics thread which linked a site which mocked up the tilt shift effect online. Maybe worth looking at that instead of forking out for a lens which you may or may not get a lot of use out of?

I don't mean to be nasty and laugh but lol!

Being able to to create an incredibly narrow DOF at long focal distances is more of an added bonus of tilt & shift lenses rather than their purpose

The idea is that you can have an extremely large DOF and also the ability to shift the lens means that you can shoot architecture with minimal distortion.

greedy123 · 2 Dec 2009 at 21:59

olv said:
I don't mean to be nasty and laugh but lol!

Being able to to create an incredibly narrow DOF at long focal distances is more of an added bonus of tilt & shift lenses rather than their purpose

The idea is that you can have an extremely large DOF and also the ability to shift the lens means that you can shoot architecture with minimal distortion.

I found that funny too

the people who say you can just ps it clearly have no idea of how the optics on a tilt-shift lens work.