Very interesting lens & you took some really nice photos. The lens is a little too special use for me but I wish they had a 14mm shift.
@ChrisBaitson
10 ай бұрын
The lens for a me is a little too narrow for MFT to make the best use of it but it’s good for a bit of fun now and then.
@geekinthegarden3927
10 ай бұрын
That hat suits you. I've been contemplating getting this lens so thanks for this. Perhaps the aperture is de clicked because of the way that the aperture is used when titled to shift the thickness of the focus cone then it might be useful to be able apertures in between the usual f stops to have the focus run where you want. The reason the panorama looks funky will be because with the camera tilted (e.g. to the left) the plane of focus is no longer parallel to the sensor but at an angle and when the lens is rotated that plane rotates as well so at the top it would be 90 degrees out and at the right it would be 180 degrees out of phase with the first shot. Whilst I think this could make some interesting artistic shots with donut shaped areas of focus, I think it will be too strange and unsettling for the majority of panoramic shots. I also think that there might be issues with the stitching as the areas where the each photo overlaps with each other will have different focus because of the rotation of the focus plane. To do that with the focus not looking strange you would need a shift lens (which this isn't) and have the tilt off. It's also the shift function that tends to be used more with architecture to stop the tops of buildings converging, so not something this lens would be used for. The tile lens is famous for the toy look where you get a high vantage point to shoot down on a scene and tilt the lens up to create a thin band of focus and make everything look like toys. Well, it can also be used to do the exact opposite. You could have the camera at a height above a table looking down towards the table with, lets say, miniature soldiers set up in a battle scene. Titling the lens down would let more of the scene come into focus and make the figures seem to be larger, almost life size to the eye. A tilt lens if great for setting up scenes to get the eye to follow diagonals and guide the viewer to specific details. For example you could tile it and have the focus run down one side of a stream or road while having the other side out of focus, you can use it in a similar way you would use a split diopter and have two objects/people in a scene that are at different distances from the camera and spaced apart in focus, but have the rest of the scene blurred. A similar set up with the lens tilted down pointing at a table can be used to photograph documents and books (that can't be stood up or hung up) so that the plane of focus runs horizontally along the whole length of the document. After a bit of keystone correction to get the page rectangular again and you have an archivable photo. This is often how historical documents are photographed. You mentioned that it's great as a portrait lens. One trick that people are missing is that tilt lenses could be great Wedding Photography lenses. Imagine the shots of the bride and groom with the focus plane just across their faces, or up and down their bodies with the background either side, no matter how close, going out of focus? Or even just getting the table settings or cake in focus throughout. 50mm if pretty wide to have a tilt lens for M43, they could do with releasing a 24mm or/and 12mm version I have a Canon 24mm TS lens which I use on a viltrox adapter which is good, but big and heavy. On a plus it's wider than this lens and, if I use a viltrox EF-MII 0.71 focal reducer, I can get it to a 17mm (with a metabones XL it will go to a 15mm but only if the body works with that adapter...and you can afford that adapter) and this makes it a great setup to use on landscapes or cityscapes. Downside is that it isn't that fast (I think it's a 3.5, so 2.5 on EF-MII or 2.2 on the XL), although as the image circle is so wide only the sharpest centre part is used on the M43 sensor. I've also used m42 to m43 tilt and tilt shift adapters which work well depending on the lens, but as m42 is full frame anything wider than 24mm is going to introduce fisheye distortion and as the tilting of the lens shifts where the centre of the image is on the sensor, this distortion may not be visually pleasing and is difficult to use software to correct. I'm not sure I explained any of that well though. Let me know it it's gobbledygook will you.
@stevesquire2590
10 ай бұрын
i use an adaptared 28mm tilt and love it even with it's faults....this is fantastic for us mft users.....only...for me 50mm is way to narrow...make an 18mm...please...i would buy that in a heartbeat!!!!
@ChrisBaitson
10 ай бұрын
Yeah I agree. Was out with David Flower last night and we both agreed they need to make a wider MFT tilt lens. 50mm it’s too narrow to make best use of it.
@paulknight7789
10 ай бұрын
What 28mm lens have you adapted?
@stevesquire2590
10 ай бұрын
hi, i use Porst lenses as i like the colours and find them quite sharp...and fairly cheap..only quite rare in gb...they are pentax mount///i did buy 35mm and 135mm m42 for macro from Germany
@jupiterman7
10 ай бұрын
Agree they need something narrower!
@ChrisBaitson
10 ай бұрын
Yeah it’s a shame it’s so narrow on MFT
@peterokeefe9960
10 ай бұрын
Hi Chris, I liked the review but i can only see full frame pricing?
@ChrisBaitson
10 ай бұрын
Hi Peter. When you click the link you want MFT Mount. The lens is priced the same across all mounts.
@peterokeefe9960
10 ай бұрын
@@ChrisBaitson Hi Chris, thanks for the pointer. Old age is taking its toll!!!
@Digg3r
10 ай бұрын
You got some cracking images with it. Not my cuppa tea though. I guess its a bit of a marmite lens
@ChrisBaitson
10 ай бұрын
Thanks man. One of them things it’s not going to be for everyone and I get that. Thanks for watching and dropping a comment.
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