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Tilt and shift lenses
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Keith Cooper’s tilt/shift articles and reviews
What the lenses do, and how to use them.
Keith has written a book that looks at the many ways that tilt/shift lenses can benefit your photography from a technical and creative point of view.
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Key articles explaining tilt and shift use
Of the many articles here, some address particular issues with making effective use of tilt/shift lenses
- What tilt and shift lenses do
- How to use shift
- Focusing the tilted lens [includes Keith’s tilt table spreadsheet (zipped file)]
- Closer focus with tilt
- Extension tubes and tilt
- Setting the tilt axis at an arbitrary angle
- Fixing lens aberrations
Practical tips include: Using lens adapters to give tilt/shift | Teleconverters and shift lenses | A DIY large format camera adapter
Keith’s videos – covering aspects of tilt/shift use
These are videos embedded in articles/reviews.
For a full index of all videos on YouTube, there is a categorised index page here:
- Video: Hasselblad H6D 100c and HTS tilt/shift
Keith Cooper looks at the Hasselblad HTS on an H6D 100C 100MP with the medium format tilt/shift lens adapter and 28mm lens (29m 54s) - Video: Diagonal shift for landscape
Using diagonal shift with a tilt-shift lens in landscape photography. How diagonally shifting the lens offsets the camera view direction in the frame (11m 40s) - Video: How do crop sensors affect tilt/shift
How does using cameras with crop sensors affect tilt and shift lenses. Does the crop affect tilt calculations and stitching shifted images (9m 30s) - Video: Diagonal lens tilt for close work
Lens tilt basics: Diagonal lens tilt - setting the plane of focus where needed for an arbitrary plane in space. Using a tilt/shift lens for close up tilt (16m 13s) - Video: Setting a lens for close up tilt
Lens tilt basics: Keith Cooper looks at setting the correct lens tilt and focus setting for close up tilt using of a tilt/shift lens (12m 42s) - Video: Nikon PC-E 24mm
Keith Cooper looks at performance and how to use the Nikon PC-E Nikkor 24mm f/3.5D ED tilt/shift or perspective control lens on the mirrorless Z7 camera (22m 32s) - Video: K&F ND2-32 variable ND filter
Using a variable (ND2-ND32) neutral density filter. Allowing for slower shutter speeds to blur movement and wider apertures to emphasise lens tilt or shallow depth of field (7m)
Latest news/articles/reviews related to tilt/shift lenses and their use
- Tilt-shift and moving beyond the small world look
The model world or 'tilt shift effect' style of photos taken with lens tilt is but a small part of what can be achieved with a tilt-shift lens. Controlling and using lens tilt is not the black art some seem to think... - Topaz Sharpen AI update
Topaz Sharpen AI image sharpening software updated to V2. Adds batch processing and masking of the images sharpening. Smart sharpening and shake reduction - Fixing converging verticals without a shift lens
Simple image edits can simulate the results of using a shift lens, if you edit your image the right way and can tolerate the need to crop the resulting image. - Teleconverters and lens tilt
Lens tilt using extenders such as the Canon Extender EF 1.4x III What are the effects of using teleconverters with tilt lenses such as the TS-E17, TS-E24mm and TS-E90mm - Teleconverters and shift lenses
Lens shift using extenders such as the Canon Extender EF 1.4x III Looking at the effects of using teleconverters with shift lenses such as the TS-E17 and TS-E24mm and tilt shift lens adapters. - Fotodiox tilt-shift lens adapter
Review of the Fotodiox TLT ROKR tilt-shift lens adapter for mounting medium format lenses on mirrorless cameras. M645 to Canon RF tested. Available also for M645 to Nikon Z along with many other lens/body combination. - Rogeti TSE Frame V3+
Rogeti have made their TSE Frame lighter and easier to level. The lens mount for the Canon TS-E17mm and TS-E24mm mk2. lenses lets you attach the lens to a tripod and shift the camera, to reduce parallax errors when stitching.
Lens reviews
- TTArtisan Tilt 50mm f/1.4 review
Keith Cooper reviews the TTArtisan Tilt 50mm f/1.4 lens with Tilt/Swing movements, Fully manual lens designed for mirrorless cameras Canon RF mount option tested, other mounts available - Review: Laowa 15mm Shift G mount lens
Keith Cooper reviews the Laowa 15mm shift G mount lens for Fuji medium format. Fully manual lens with ±11mm of shift in any direction [8mm usable for G mount) - Review: Laowa shift lens support
Keith Cooper reviews the Laowa shift lens support The lenses are available in Nikon/Canon/Sony/L/Pentax mounts. Enables parallax free camera movement whilst keeping the lens stationary - Review: Laowa 20mm Shift lens f/4
Keith Cooper reviews the C-Dreamer Laowa 20mm f4 Zero-D Shift lens. Fully manual lens with ±11mm of shift in any direction. The lens is available in Nikon/Canon/Sony/L/Pentax mounts. The Canon mount option is tested here. - Video: Hasselblad H6D 100c and HTS tilt/shiftKeith Cooper looks at the Hasselblad HTS on an H6D 100C 100MP with the medium format tilt/shift lens adapter and 28mm lens (29m 54s)
- Nikon PC-E 45mm f/2.8D ED review
Review and video review of the Nikon PC-E Nikkor 25mm f/2.8D ED tilt/shift lens. Nikon F mount full frame perspective correction lens for FX DSLRs / mirrorless. Tested on the Nikon Z7 mirrorless camera - Video: Nikon PC-E 24mmKeith Cooper looks at performance and how to use the Nikon PC-E Nikkor 24mm f/3.5D ED tilt/shift or perspective control lens on the mirrorless Z7 camera (22m 32s)
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Keith explains tilt and shift lenses
Keith has written a book that looks at the many ways that tilt/shift lenses can benefit your photography from a technical and creative point of view. If not in the UK check for import issues and maybe try an on-line bookshop. Keith has no connection with sales of the book.
ISBN 9781785007712
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