| This is a Unboxing video I have rented this Lens for a week, Its the Canon TS-E 45mm f/2.8 Tilt Shift Lens First, what is a Tilt-Shift lens? Canon's Tilt-Shift lenses feature three not-found-on-a-typical-lens adjustments. Tilt, Shift AND Rotate. Large format system users are familiar with these adjustments, but many 35mm format users are not. These adjustments can be used individually or simultaneously to alter the relationship of the optical axis of the lens to the sensor (or film) plane. Tilt. Turning the small (too small) tilt adjustment knob angles the lens up to +/- 8 degrees relative to the sensor plane. The result is a focus plane that is not parallel to the sensor plane. The focus plane follows the direction of the tilt of the lens. For example, tilt the Canon TS-E 45mm f/2.8 Tilt-Shift Lens downward to keep an expansive area of relatively flat ground in focus from close out to infinity even at a wide aperture setting. Actually, the focus plane becomes more like a focus wedge as the DOF (Depth of Field) increases with distance. Use this feature to selectively keep objects in or out of focus in the picture. A very diffuse background can be produced with this lens opened wide to f/2.8 and when tilted significantly. Diffusely blur the non-subject portion of your picture to dramatically direct the viewer's eye to the subject. The tilt adjustment scale is marked in 1 degree increments. The amount of change in focus plane at the maximum tilt settings is significant. |
