Keith’s tilt shift lens use webinar

Expanded and edited live recording

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Video: Webinar covering tilt shift lens use

An edited, expanded and updated recording of Keith Cooper’s tilt shift lens use webinar from February 2022.

This video Includes more photos and diagrams illustrating different aspects of lens use.

How to use tilt shift lenses (51m)

Thanks to BenQ for setting up the session and Park Cameras (UK) for their assistance. The monitor shown in the recording is the BenQ SW321C Keith’s review (and links to videos)

Keith has written many articles and reviews covering the use of tilt and shift lenses.

His tilt shift lens use book is widely available

See the timings in the video chapter list below.

Video chapters

• 00:00 Start
• 00:06 Introduction and guide to the webinar recording
• 01:06 Start of webinar (poor video for ~15 secs)
• 01:30 Why there is no maths or Scheimpflug discussion here
• 02:50 A tilted miniature world view – but only a part of what these lenses can do
• 03:10 Not the tilt-shift effect 04:18 Tilt and shift are two different functions
• 04:56 Some tilt/shift lenses
• 08:02 Looking out for used tilt/shift lenses
• 08:39 An example, the Canon TS-E 50mm
• 10:17 Using shift to fix converging verticals
• 11:27 The lens shifted upwards
• 12:13 The effect of lens shift
• 13:15 Why not fix verticals in Photoshop
• 14:38 Removing the foreground in wide shots
• 15:37 Camera settings
• 16:34 Lens aberrations and image quality
• 18:28 A view inside Wells cathedral
• 19:57 Hand held can work just fine
• 20:50 Shifting the lens sideways
• 21:35 Diagonal shift
• 24:15 Diagonal shift, clouds and landscape
• 25:45 Combining stitched images
• 27:44 Lens distortions and lack of EXIF data
• 29:12 Looking at Tilt
• 29:14 An adapted medioum format lens
• 30:09 The plane of focus
• 35:57 How focus and tilt moves the plane of focus
• 38:43 Placing the plane of focus where you need it
• 40:26 My BenQ monitor (BenQ organised the webinar)
• 41:48 Tilt/Shift webinar Q&A session
• 42:02 Can you use extension tubes?
• 42:38 What focal lengths are most versatile?
• 43:24 Focus aids for setting tilt?
• 44:52 Image stabilisation
• 45:55 Lack of EXIF and taking notes?
• 47:28 Does mirrorless make it easier to use tilt/shift lenses?
• 47:57 Using the lenses for landscape photography
• 48:40 Use for macro 49:19 Rotating the lens mount
• 49:42 Tilt/shift vs wide angle lens use for panoramic
• 51:16 Wrapping up, and more resources