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Tilt-shifting


Danny

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In layman's terms, it makes whatever you look at through it look like toys.

Erm, that's a post processing feature. A tilt shift lens allows for full control of the image in lateral and parallel planes, excellent for building photography as the building can be made to look straight instead of like its leaning everywhere after a drunken night out like you'd get with a standard type lens.

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Erm, that's a post processing feature.

Probably. You can certainly get the "toy" effect with Tilt/shift lenses although that wasn't the original intention. Nowadays most people will just use a standard lens and photoshop, so I presume that's what's happened here. Tilt-shift lenses are expensive.

A tilt shift lens allows for full control of the image in lateral and parallel planes, excellent for building photography as the building can be made to look straight instead of like its leaning everywhere after a drunken night out like you'd get with a standard type lens.

I think the 'shift' part corrects the parallel lines thing as you've described.

The 'tilt' part is to align the focal plane with whatever you want, allowing a greater part of the image to be focussed in certain situations (E.g. something sloping away from you can be entirely in focus). You can "abuse" this feature of the lens and manipulate the focal plane in a way that makes only a small part of the image in focus. This is what you''re seeing with the "toy" effect.

P.S. I may have got tilt / shift the wrong way round in the explanation

P.P.S I'm sure this is all in the wikipedia article explained much better!

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Probably. You can certainly get the "toy" effect with Tilt/shift lenses although that wasn't the original intention. Nowadays most people will just use a standard lens and photoshop, so I presume that's what's happened here. Tilt-shift lenses are expensive.

I think the 'shift' part corrects the parallel lines thing as you've described.

The 'tilt' part is to align the focal plane with whatever you want, allowing a greater part of the image to be focussed in certain situations (E.g. something sloping away from you can be entirely in focus). You can "abuse" this feature of the lens and manipulate the focal plane in a way that makes only a small part of the image in focus. This is what you''re seeing with the "toy" effect.

P.S. I may have got tilt / shift the wrong way round in the explanation

P.P.S I'm sure this is all in the wikipedia article explained much better!

Nah, you got them the correct way round. I very nearly bought one a while ago for some architectural based uni work but the cost didn't outweigh the use it would get due to it being such a specific lens. Dunno where i got the post processing thing from, i just remember reading it somewhere recently about miniature faking being a post processing feature. I did wonder as the design of the lens would allow for someone to use that feature fairly easily.

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