Video review: TTArtisan 17mm tilt shift

Medium Format and Mirrorless full frame.

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Review: Medium format TTArtisan 17mm tilt/shift

Two videos

• Introduction and testing – TTArtisan 17mm Tilt shift [15 mins]
• Lens review – TTArtisan 17mm Tilt shift [50 mins]

Detailed 17mm lens review with examples of using tilt and shift. Can a $500 medium format ultra wide lens really perform well at 100MP? Build quality, optical performance and potential limitations for the medium format version.

TLDR Optically excellent – limitations to movements may be too much for some.

Main video Includes comparison with Canon TS-E17. There are more example photos in the testing videos.

The TTArtisan Tilt-Shift 17mm F4 ASPH. ±8° Tilt & Shift Lens is available for Sony E and Fujifilm G [GFX Medium Format] cameras. Nikon Z, L and Canon RF [±8mm shift].

Manual Focus, teated on the 100MP Fuji GFX100S camera.

As shown in the video, the Fiji GFX version only offers vertical shift [rise] and left-right tilt [swing]. The lens cannot be rotated on the lens mount

Lens information

• G mount https://ttartisan.store/products/tilt-shift-17mm-f4-asph?variant=45887669797026
• E mount https://ttartisan.store/products/tilt-shift-17mm-f4-asph?variant=45887669764258

Just to give a feel, here are two hand held night time shots with vertical shift [click to enlarge[

There are some full size example shots on the MF forum at DPReview

Both images are shot at high ISO and processed with DxO PureRAW

TTArtisan Tilt-Shift 17mm F4 ASPH specs

There are a lot of lens elements inside this lens.

It’s fully manual, so no EXIF lens data. If you want to use image stabilisation, you will need to set the lens focal length on the camera. Sensor IS works, but will be less effective with any shift or tilt.

It has a 64mm image circle, giving ±8mm of shift and ±8º of tilt.

Note that physical limitations of the design mean that full tilt and full shift cannot be used at the same time.

Aperture clicks at half stops.

The lens hood is detachable

TTArtisan 17mm tilt shift Video Timeline

• 00:32 The lens – what I’m looking at
• 03:35 Lens construction and function
• 10:50 A brick wall, distortions and shift
• 17:15 Using the lens – examples
• 32:23 Flare and light on the lens
• 35:14 Using lens tilt
• 40:08 Comparing with the TS-E17
• 44:30 General review conclusions
• 49:22 Gallery of more example photos

This shorter [15 mins] video introduces the lens and has more examples

TTArtisan 17mm tilt shift lens intro Timeline

00:16 Lens features
01:08 Lens specifications
01:32 Limitations of the lens?
05:13 Initial example images
07:04 Sunstars
12:48 Flare?