I have two D500's. I had purchased the Nikon 16-80mm f/2.8-4. I was disappointed. It's a $500 to $600 lens that sells for $1000. I already had the previous 16-85mm f/3.5-5.6 lens. They seemed to have lowered the quality of the 16-80mm. It has noisy autofocus. Mine had a severe back focusing issue. You can tell that the build quality has been lowered. I ended up returning it. I found a camera store that still had one new 16-85mm f/3.5-5.6 lens. Now I have two of the 16-85mm f/3.5-5.6 lenses. I'm very happy with them.

I’ve noticed at least two posts recently stating that lens tilt controls/corrects perspective “distortion”. Many earlier posts do offer the correct instruction, that such correction is accomplished by shift ... not tilt.

Tilt controls the plane of best focus. Shift controls aim of the lens, allowing the user to aim up at a tall subject without having to tip the whole camera upward, allowing the sensor to remain parallel to the tall subject (typically a building facade).

If the max shift still doesn’t include the full subject height requiring you to tilt the camera up anyway, use of max shift has fortunately reduced the degree that you tip up the camera. That is helpful.

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FWIW, if you have tipped up the camera you have tilted the plane of best focus so it no longer perfectly coincides with the facade of a building. Use of the lens tilt will realign that plane with the facade. Again, tilt is for optimum focus and does not control perspective effects. Shift is for minimizing perspective effect.

In such examples as above, the upward shift is also called “rise”, just in case you’ve been reading “the classics” where the term is always “rise” :-)

I’ve noticed at least two posts recently stating that lens tilt controls/corrects perspective “distortion”. Many earlier posts do offer the correct instruction, that such correction is accomplished by shift ... not tilt.

Tilt controls the plane of best focus. Shift controls aim of the lens, allowing the user to aim up at a tall subject without having to tip the whole camera upward, allowing the sensor to remain parallel to the tall subject (typically a building facade).

If the max shift still doesn’t include the full subject height requiring you to tilt the camera up anyway, use of max shift has fortunately reduced the degree that you tip up the camera. That is helpful.

•=•=•=•==••=•=•=••==•=•=•=•.

FWIW, if you have tipped up the camera you have tilted the plane of best focus so it no longer perfectly coincides with the facade of a building. Use of the lens tilt will realign that plane with the facade. Again, tilt is for optimum focus and does not control perspective effects. Shift is for minimizing perspective effect.

In such examples as above, the upward shift is also called “rise”, just in case you’ve been reading “the classics” where the term is always “rise” :-)