tilt shift lens
Sep 12, 2016 11:42:46 #
cou[le of questions.
1. Do you own any tilt lens.
2. How often do you use it.
3. Are you glad you have it in your bag.
i don't own one, but it looks like something I may have use for while shooting trees and general landscape work. I don't do a lot of buildings.
1. Do you own any tilt lens.
2. How often do you use it.
3. Are you glad you have it in your bag.
i don't own one, but it looks like something I may have use for while shooting trees and general landscape work. I don't do a lot of buildings.
Sep 12, 2016 11:57:47 #
Yes, I have swings and tilts on both front and back of my camera. Comes in very handy for infinite depth of field in landscape work. It's also great for architectural work.
--Bob
[quote=philo]cou[le of questions.
1. Do you own any tilt lens.
2. How often do you use it.
3. Are you glad you have it in your bag.
i don't own one, but it looks like something I may have use for while shooting trees and general landscape work. I don't do a lot of buildings.[/quote]
--Bob
[quote=philo]cou[le of questions.
1. Do you own any tilt lens.
2. How often do you use it.
3. Are you glad you have it in your bag.
i don't own one, but it looks like something I may have use for while shooting trees and general landscape work. I don't do a lot of buildings.[/quote]
Sep 12, 2016 11:59:43 #
[quote=philo]cou[le of questions.
1. Do you own any tilt lens.
2. How often do you use it.
3. Are you glad you have it in your bag.
i don't own one, but it looks like something I may have use for while shooting trees and general landscape work. I don't do a lot of buildings.[/quote]
My Lensbaby tilts. It's a cheap tilt shift lens, but it works wonders. I need to play with it more.
\Marion
1. Do you own any tilt lens.
2. How often do you use it.
3. Are you glad you have it in your bag.
i don't own one, but it looks like something I may have use for while shooting trees and general landscape work. I don't do a lot of buildings.[/quote]
My Lensbaby tilts. It's a cheap tilt shift lens, but it works wonders. I need to play with it more.
\Marion
Sep 12, 2016 12:00:25 #
A question... Trees are naturally crooked, why do you want them to look like straight matches?
Tilt shift have two main purpose:
Modify the perspective, not the point of view.
Augment the the acceptable DOF at the price of distortion.
Unless one does this for work or on a daily basis - for any reason - The cost is just not justified, purchase a 'lens baby' instead.
Then again, if you have the dough and are suffering from an acute case of envy, go right ahead. In this case, just purchase a duster with it. Your best bet should be a 8*10 view camera... 3 dimensional adjustments on the lens and back plane axis!!! A Sinar or Linhof should take care of your disposable income nicely enough...
Sorry for the above statement but the tilt-shift lenses for small camera are just a puny derivative from the really big boys of photography.
Tilt shift have two main purpose:
Modify the perspective, not the point of view.
Augment the the acceptable DOF at the price of distortion.
Unless one does this for work or on a daily basis - for any reason - The cost is just not justified, purchase a 'lens baby' instead.
Then again, if you have the dough and are suffering from an acute case of envy, go right ahead. In this case, just purchase a duster with it. Your best bet should be a 8*10 view camera... 3 dimensional adjustments on the lens and back plane axis!!! A Sinar or Linhof should take care of your disposable income nicely enough...
Sorry for the above statement but the tilt-shift lenses for small camera are just a puny derivative from the really big boys of photography.
Sep 12, 2016 12:00:55 #
what do you mean when you say..........you have one on the back of your camera?
Sep 12, 2016 12:11:24 #
A.I.R.
Loc: Carmel IN
I just finished watching a free landscape photography featuring John Green on Creativelive .com. John went over quite a few lens in the field, what he uses and the results with these various lens. One lens he covered in depth was the tilt lens and it was very interesting. This class is free right now and I would suggest checking it out. It wouldn't cost you anything unless seeing and understanding the benefits of the lens inspires you to bu one. Enjoy, John is very good. Good luck on your decision. :)
Sep 12, 2016 12:17:11 #
A.I.R. wrote:
I just finished watching a free landscape photogra... (show quote)
I'm watching this program and that is why I'm asking the question.
I purchased his class on the Canon 5d Mark 3 and really learned a lot.
Sep 12, 2016 12:17:23 #
With small format cameras ( like 35mm), the tilting aspect is generally much less pursued ( because of the inherent and relatively large DOF) unless you get into close up work. However, the shifting aspect is much more pursued and has a relatively greater application.
Sep 12, 2016 12:25:30 #
I find that I can make all the perspective corrections I need in post with software, saving time on site, saving $$$ on lens.
Sep 12, 2016 12:34:00 #
philo wrote:
what do you mean when you say..........you have one on the back of your camera?
He is talking about a view camera like this one. http://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-407897-1.html
Cameras such as this have all movements (rise, fall, tilt, shift and wing on both the front and back standards.
Sep 12, 2016 12:37:51 #
A.I.R.
Loc: Carmel IN
John is great. Hope other members can help you answer your question. I know John expressed his use with this lens and the need for him to produce this "correction" in his raw image shooting vs. PP. Also stating some of these cannot be achieved in Photoshop.
Sep 12, 2016 12:48:16 #
The back of my camera swings, tilts, and shifts.
--Bob
--Bob
philo wrote:
what do you mean when you say..........you have one on the back of your camera?
Sep 12, 2016 13:03:22 #
[quote=philo]cou[le of questions.
1. Do you own any tilt lens.
2. How often do you use it.
3. Are you glad you have it in your bag.
i don't own one, but it looks like something I may have use for while shooting trees and general landscape work. I don't do a lot of buildings.[/quote]
I have and use three - 24, 45 and 85mm Nikkors. These manual focus lenses have become my go to lenses for many tasks.
1. For easy panoramas, just use the camera in portrait orientation and take three images - left, center and right most position.
2. To avoid tilting the camera up and introducing keystoning, you can shift the lens instead. Keeps things in "perspective" so to speak.
3. To avoid objects in the foreground - if you are shooting next to a tree and the tree is a distraction, you can shift the lens to eliminate that tree at the border.
4. For control over depth of field, like a lens baby, or full-blown view cameras, you can have focus from your toes to infinity without resorting to using F32 and softening the entire image (scheimpflug principle). While you may tilt the plane of focus towards infinity it becomes a cone in the process. reducing the aperture increases the angle of the cone. If you merely want to get a very narrow focus point, you can tilt the lens in the opposite direction.
5. Because these are basically medium format lenses in 35mm or DSLR mounts, you are using the center of the lens which is considerably sharper and relatively free of CA and other lens aberrations. So you can experience corner to corner sharpness and consistent image quality when not using shift and tilt.
6. At least the Nikkors will focus to 1:2, making them great lenses to shoot flowers, butterflies and other closeup subjects. You can always add an extension tube to get closer. Adding an extension tube to the 24mm lens gives you very short working distance, perhaps an inch or so, but a pretty dramatic effect if you combine the tube with a small aperture.
My early experiences with photography involved using a Sinar P 4x5 with 65, 75 and 90mm Nikon view camera lenses to do architectural interiors. I also had a Horseman 985, a lightweight foldingmedium format (6x9) view camera with swings and tilts on the film plane as well as the front standard. It was my field camera for landscapes and city scapes, along with my wooden tripod.
1. Do you own any tilt lens.
2. How often do you use it.
3. Are you glad you have it in your bag.
i don't own one, but it looks like something I may have use for while shooting trees and general landscape work. I don't do a lot of buildings.[/quote]
I have and use three - 24, 45 and 85mm Nikkors. These manual focus lenses have become my go to lenses for many tasks.
1. For easy panoramas, just use the camera in portrait orientation and take three images - left, center and right most position.
2. To avoid tilting the camera up and introducing keystoning, you can shift the lens instead. Keeps things in "perspective" so to speak.
3. To avoid objects in the foreground - if you are shooting next to a tree and the tree is a distraction, you can shift the lens to eliminate that tree at the border.
4. For control over depth of field, like a lens baby, or full-blown view cameras, you can have focus from your toes to infinity without resorting to using F32 and softening the entire image (scheimpflug principle). While you may tilt the plane of focus towards infinity it becomes a cone in the process. reducing the aperture increases the angle of the cone. If you merely want to get a very narrow focus point, you can tilt the lens in the opposite direction.
5. Because these are basically medium format lenses in 35mm or DSLR mounts, you are using the center of the lens which is considerably sharper and relatively free of CA and other lens aberrations. So you can experience corner to corner sharpness and consistent image quality when not using shift and tilt.
6. At least the Nikkors will focus to 1:2, making them great lenses to shoot flowers, butterflies and other closeup subjects. You can always add an extension tube to get closer. Adding an extension tube to the 24mm lens gives you very short working distance, perhaps an inch or so, but a pretty dramatic effect if you combine the tube with a small aperture.
My early experiences with photography involved using a Sinar P 4x5 with 65, 75 and 90mm Nikon view camera lenses to do architectural interiors. I also had a Horseman 985, a lightweight foldingmedium format (6x9) view camera with swings and tilts on the film plane as well as the front standard. It was my field camera for landscapes and city scapes, along with my wooden tripod.
Sep 12, 2016 23:53:16 #
RWR
Loc: La Mesa, CA
[quote=philo]cou[le of questions.
1. Do you own any tilt lens.
2. How often do you use it.
3. Are you glad you have it in your bag.[/quote]
I just received a 50 f/2.8 Schneider Super-Angulon PC TS from B&H 4 days ago. Must have been their last one, because an hour or so after ordering I went back to double check the specifications and it was listed as discontinued. I've only had time to do a bit of testing, but I'm satisfied it will be one of my most used lenses. I've used a 35 f/4.0 PA Curtagon (shift only) on my Leicaflexes for many years, but need the tilt for more depth of field at wider apertures. I bought the PC TS, so I better be glad to own it!
1. Do you own any tilt lens.
2. How often do you use it.
3. Are you glad you have it in your bag.[/quote]
I just received a 50 f/2.8 Schneider Super-Angulon PC TS from B&H 4 days ago. Must have been their last one, because an hour or so after ordering I went back to double check the specifications and it was listed as discontinued. I've only had time to do a bit of testing, but I'm satisfied it will be one of my most used lenses. I've used a 35 f/4.0 PA Curtagon (shift only) on my Leicaflexes for many years, but need the tilt for more depth of field at wider apertures. I bought the PC TS, so I better be glad to own it!
Sep 13, 2016 07:34:56 #
mallen1330 wrote:
I find that I can make all the perspective corrections I need in post with software, saving time on site, saving $$$ on lens.
My thinking was somewhat along these lines - but I have no actual experience with the tilt/shift lens. My mind was really posing this as a question and perhaps someone can answer it. I was wondering what the advantage is of doing the tilt/shift with the lens rather than later in post-processing. I suspect there is an advantage.
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