Optical Tricks with Tilt-Shift Lenses

John Warkentin, the Technology Evangelist at michaels camera presents a range of live demonstrations, samples and applications of Tilt-Shift Lenses across a wide selection of topics in this 42 minute Live Seminar held as part of our long running free Lunchtime series held in-store in Melbourne at the corner of Elizabeth and Lonsdale Street.
The live demonstrations in this seminar utilise a Full Frame Canon 5DMk3 and the Canon TS-E 45mm F2.8 Lens. It is running Tethered with the Canon EOS Utility in Liveview mode enabling a real time view of what the camera is seeing. It is this feature of the modern DSLR which greatly simplifies the use of the all manual controls of the Tilt-Shift Lens.
The subject for this live capture demonstration is a line of additional Tilt-Shift Lenses that are both in stock or available for rent at michaels camera.
Listed in order from front to back they are:
Nikon 24mm F3.5 PC-E Nikkor
Nikon 85mm F2.8 PC-E Micro Nikkor
Canon TS-E 17mm F4
Canon TS-E 24mm F3.5
Canon TS-E 90mm F2.8
Samyang Tilt/Shift 24mm F3.5 ED AS UMC
The Samyang Lens is uniquely available in a very wide range of Camera Mounts.
They are: Canon EF and EF-M, Fujifilm X, Olympus / Panasonic Four Thirds and Micro Four Thirds, Pentax K, Samsung NX, and Sony A and E
Direct links to Purchase these Tilt-Shift Lenses:
Canon 17mm
michaels.com.au/products/canon...
Canon 24mm
michaels.com.au/products/canon...
Canon 45mm
michaels.com.au/products/canon...
Canon 90mm
michaels.com.au/products/canon...
Nikon 24mm
michaels.com.au/products/nikon...
Nikon 45mm
michaels.com.au/products/nikon...
Nikon 85mm
michaels.com.au/products/nikon...
Samyang 24mm Canon Mount
michaels.com.au/products/samya...
Samyang 24mm Nikon Mount
michaels.com.au/products/samya...
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The Presentation Slides, Notes and all Samples from the Seminar can be found on this Facebook Group.
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Presented by John Warkentin
Recorded at michaels camera in Melbourne, VIC Australia.
Video Crew: Brian H and Bill S
Edited by Asher Floyd
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[@jimwlouavl]

Instant credibility by mentioning the Scheimfplug principle. I’ve watched a dozen or so videos on tilt-shift lenses and this is the first I’ve seen to mention it.

[@billzidis2656]

Since I bought my 24mm TS my photography changed...I'm a real estate photographer and helps me alot for detailed shots.Very nice video.Thank you

[@360icon]

This was excellent! I ordered one today and by watching this i learned some proper techniques on the use of something unique

[@photocreativity]

Great demonstration of the Tilt Shift lens!👍

[@businessfotografie]

Great explanations for this type of lens!

[@emads5391]

Thank uuu very much , i like ur passion about photography... and it is very informative video too

[@SudhakarSinghbondili]

very helpful thanking you for sharing

[@karolisvaiciulis691]

This is magic!

[@jarosawsiudzinski5442]

Great and easy explanation. Thank You a lot.

[@michaelscamera]

Our pleasure Jaroslaw. Thanks for letting us know. Best regards, Peter Michael, Managing Director - michaels

[@yosoli1]

Thanks a lot John, was the best explanation I ever seen and heard about this difficult topic, congratulations!

[@timthompson1925]

thank you so much John!!!

[@michaelscamera]

Our pleasure Tim. Warm regards, Peter Michael

[@robalexwar]

Well explained thanks :)

[@mdturnerinoz]

Thanks for the ideas. I have the Canon 45mm TS and love to video, so I'll give this a try.

[@michaelscamera]

Thanks Marty, we're very pleased that you picked up some ideas from our talk. Best regards, Peter Michael, Managing Director - michaels

[@alexabadi7458]

Thanks a lot !

[@sailronin]

A very nice demo of tilt/shift lenses and good explanation. A minor correction in terminology, you are NOT bending the plane of focus, you are pivoting the plane of focus. The plane of focus remains a straight plane, just pivoted on it's axis; bending the plane would result in massive distortion like a "fun house" mirror.

[@RHarack]

great job

[@mromagnoli]

The first live-view in a DSLR was in 2000 - the Olympus E-10.

[@jorismaasvisuals]

Amazing video and explanation. I only have the Canon 24mm TS-E f3.5L (hopefully I can upgrade to the Mark II this year since it's a lot better when it comes to distortion and it's also sharper). I am also thinking about getting the 45mm since it's a pretty affordable TS lens nowadays.

[@gregnorris8279]

The 3 shots is a Vertical Panorama. I have done this using a basic 18-50mm lens on a Nikon D200, years ago. I have it printed at approx 1/2 full size and the result is a 6ft x 1ft mounted vertical panorama of a tree in in a gully. No-one can ever get that shot, as the tree was washed away in annual flooding. Am interested in the tilt shift lens, but think it more for the focus/out of focus possibilities. Great talk though, thanks 👍

[@NealeGray]

I don't get it, sorry. Maybe some diagrams and more examples would help? Sorry for being dumb.

[@cluxseltoot]

Didn't understand a word.

[@peterhubertus]

Thanks for your Video, BUT sorry Sir, your statement "it´s difficult, even I don´t understand it" (Scheimpflug) is barely acceptable. Don´t make it more difficult than it is: 1. The object plane, the lens plane and the film plane intersect in ONE intersection line. 2. The lens equation still applies: 1/object distance PLUS 1/film distance EQUAL focal length. Further: the object plane is not bent, it is rotated around the intersection line (s.o.).

[@stevenkimdmd]

Canon should make tilt-shift adapters for their L lenses. Greedy bastards.

[@michaelscamera]

This is not as simple as it sounds. Tilt Shift Lenses need to have very large image circles and an adapter would have to have some thickness to it, and this would act like an extension tube and cause the loss of distant focusing.

[@RudolfWolph]

It *can* work if the flange distance of the camera is shorter than the lens' native mount, as in mirrorless... but then you'd need to use an aps-c camera in order to have a large enough image circle... but I doubt Canon would see much of a market for a tilt-shift adapter for EF lenses to EF-M.

[@kevin-parratt-artist]

1. Tilting the lens bends nothing. 2. Large format cameras are in production today, both by new start-ups and premium companies such as Arca Swiss, Cambo and Linhof. Linhof in fact produce no fewer than five different 4x5 cameras. You are mouthing off with misinformation. 👎

[@ams0876]

Lot of technical explanations nothing practical.