It only costs between a quarter and half the price of Canon and Nikon tilt-shift lenses to buy, but is still cleverly designed and well-engineered.
Unlike own-brand Canon and Nikon tilt-shift lenses, this Samyang 24mm is available in a wide variety of mount options, including Canon EF, Canon EF-M, Nikon F (FX), Pentax K, Sony A, Sony E, Samyang NX and Fujifilm X. Another neat trick of applying shift is that you can shoot directly into a mirror and remove yourself and the camera from the reflection. By dialling in the necessary amount of shift, you can counteract the appearance of walls tapering inwards as they rise up. Shoot from ground level with a regular lens and tall buildings will appear to lean inwards towards the top. A classic use of the shift function is in architectural photography.
TILTSHIFT LENS CANON PC
Indeed, Nikon gives its tilt-shift lenses a PC (Perspective Control) prefix. The shift function gives you the ability to take control over perspective effects. The Tilt facility certainly isn’t the only attraction of this type of lens. Tilt the lens in the opposite direction and you can make the depth of field very small, enabling a ‘toy camera’ effect. These lenses therefore work very well for extreme close-up photography, where gaining sufficient depth of field is always a struggle. We’re seeing a growing number of ‘macro’ or ‘micro’ tilt-shift lenses from Canon and Nikon respectively, which enable as much as a 0.5x magnification ratio at their closest focus setting. By tilting the lens in one direction, you can gradually increase the depth of field until it’s almost infinite. So what’s so special about tilt and shift? Tilting the lens enables far greater control over depth of field than simply adjusting the aperture setting, and without the latter’s restrictions on shutter speed.
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