Tilt and shift
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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
- LargeSense launches the LS911
LargeSense launches the LS911 8x10 digital camera back. Single shot 9"x11" CMOS sensor gives 12MP with 75 micron pixels. Base ISO is 2100 Includes lossless 4k video at 26fps - TS-E 50mm f/2.8L macro review
Review of the Canon TS-E 50mm f/2.8L macro tilt/shift lens. How to use the ±8.5 degrees of tilt and ±12mm of shift offered by the macro lens - TS-E 135mm f/4L macro review
Review of the Canon TS-E 135mm f/4L macro tilt/shift lens. How to use the ±10 degrees of tilt and ±12mm of shift offered by the telephoto macro lens - Rogeti TSE frame review
Review of the Rogeti TSE frame - lens mount for Canon TS-E 17mm and 24mm tilt/shift lenses. Attaches lens directly to a tripod for parallax free image stitching. Accurate image stitching for wide coverage - New Canon 50mm, 90mm and 135mm tilt-shift lensesNew tilt shift lenses announced. Canon 50mm f2.8L, 90mm f2.8L and 135mm f4L macro tilt-shift lenses. TS-E lens range expanded with macro capable lenses.
- Tilt and tubes for Macro
Using Tilt/shift lenses and extension tubes for macro photography. How much can you move the focal plane by tilting a lens - A shift lens at 50mm
Using a shift lens at 50mm - adding rise and fall to a standard focal length. Tilt/shift lens use at longer focal lengths. A Mamiya medium format lens used with a shift adapter
Lens reviews
- Nikon PC-E 24mm f/3.5D ED review
Review of the Nikon PC-E Nikkor 24mm f/3.5D ED tilt/shift lens. Nikon F mount full frame perspective correction lens for FX DSLRs / mirrorless. Tested on the Nikon Z7 mirrorless camera - Video: Laowa 15mm shift lens review
Review of the Laowa 15mm F4.5 Zero-D shift lens, with examples of how the lens can be used. Includes a brief comparison with the Canon TS-E17 tilt/shift lens(14m 40s) - Review: Laowa 15mm f4.5 Zero-D Shift lens
Keith Cooper reviews the Laowa 15mm f4.5 Zero-D Shift lens. Fully manual lens with ±11mm of shift in any direction. The lens is available in Nikon/Canon/Sony mounts. The Canon mount option is tested here. - Video: A look at the EOS R5
Keith Cooper looks at the Canon EOS R5 mirrorless camera and compares it with the Canon EOS 5Ds he uses for his day to day work (22mins) - Canon drop-in filter adapter with tilt/shift
Using the Canon drop-in filter adapter (EF-RF) and polariser with TS-E tilt-shift lenses (17/24/50) on an EOS R5 RF mount mirrorless camera - Video: Fotodiox tilt-shift adapter for MF lenses
Keith Cooper looks at using the Fotodiox tilt/shift adapter for M645 medium format lenses on a full frame mirrorless camera (EOS RP) (14mins) - Nikon PC 19mm F4E ED review
Review of the Nikon PC Nikkor 19mm F4E ED tilt/shift lens. Nikon F mount full frame perspective correction lens for full frame (FX) cameras. Tested on the Nikon Z7 mirrorless camera
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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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