Can a Tilting Macro Lens give deeper DOF? AstrHori 85mm Review

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Can a Tilting Macro Lens give deeper DOF? AstrHori 85mm Review

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@ZeLoShady Жыл бұрын

Thanks for reviewing this! I saw it on another channel a week or 2 ago and looked for macro reviews but NO ONE covered the tilt function while shooting macro, just while shooting normal landscape scenes. So glad to see this lens actually working to extend DoF. I will have to pick one up in the future as that will be super fun to play with.

@FourKnown Жыл бұрын

I used to do this with 4X5 Graphic View camera back in 1978 at our lab at Boeing. We would tilt the front lens board forward and the rear film board backward as I recall to get the most DOF. This was routine.

@fandyus4125 Жыл бұрын

I must say AstrHori is quickly becoming one of my favorite lens manufacturers. They have put out so many interesting lenses in the last month.

@skesinis Жыл бұрын

Cool video and nice lens too! One thing about the depth of field tilting that’s good to know is the following: If you are sooting for example a table at an angle at f/2.8 and you tilt the lens at an angle, if you could extend the plane of the sensor to meet the plane of the table, and the angle of the lens also by extension, intersects the point where the other two planes intersect too, you have infinite depth of field in that table.

@guybob548 Жыл бұрын

A tilt lens is next on my list for gear to acquire, for landscapes and buildings and now Macro!

@meisokok Жыл бұрын

super unique lens and very informative vid

@chorton53 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for doing this video. Your video was the first one I found to really explain with great details what the tilt feature does.

@MicaelWidell Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@peterviragphoto Жыл бұрын

Awesome review Micael! Always loved the miniature effect one can achive with a tilt shift lens. Even if it’s not optically perfect, definitely usable in certain scenarios. Thanks for sharing your findings:) Have a nice weekend!

@Jbobonline Жыл бұрын

You are an unrecognized painter! ❤

@PhilThach Жыл бұрын

Great video and review, Micael!

@MicaelWidell Жыл бұрын

Thanks 😊

@russellbaston974 Жыл бұрын

As with any tilt system, the DOF for a given aperture and focussing distance is constant, the plane of focus can be altered, as shown, but you don’t get any ‘more’.

@MicaelWidell Жыл бұрын

Yes, you cannot cheat physics

@tehpanda64 Жыл бұрын

I am not sure I understand, is this not the same as just making sure your lens is more "parallel" with the subject? in tight spaces I could see it giving you more ability to get into that "parallel" position, but certainly this is just a novelty and not truly practical? Maybe you could make a short video with this lens recording while you have the camera on a tripod and the lens is fully tilted while you are spinning the lens? I would be interested to see how that looks.

@MicaelWidell Жыл бұрын

You are right, that is another way of achieving the same depth of field. But that would be a completely different composition, which is not always what we want.

@JoshxIZ Жыл бұрын

I would like to try it. 😊

@hoffmannolsen Жыл бұрын

Holy cow, forget focus bracketing, this is a game changer!

@uptown3636 Жыл бұрын

At the end of this video, Micael talks about how the channel depends upon viewers subscribing to his Patreon. Having recently done so, I can tell you that it's easily worth it just for the ability to participate in photo critiques and editing demonstrations. If you're considering it, I hope to see you there. Micael, thanks for making this video. Though I don't think this is a good lens for me, I find its expanded depth-of-field very tempting.

@MicaelWidell Жыл бұрын

Thank you for your kind words :)

@uptown3636 Жыл бұрын

@@MicaelWidell You're most welcome. The work you put in on this channel has helped a lot of people, myself included.

@KROFOT Жыл бұрын

Thank You !!!

@zanepolski9217 Жыл бұрын

Hello Micael! Have a great day!

@jared3622 Жыл бұрын

Very interesting video, i don't think it's my next lens but if I did studio work it might be

@fleurbird Жыл бұрын

Bra video. Tack så mycket.

@user-fv7ri4qt3v Жыл бұрын

you can use a teleconverter with this lens on fuji cameras at least

@simonsmith2794 Жыл бұрын

Watch tin house studio and see how he uses a bellows tilt shift lens setup for his studio work , makes a lot of sense when working with such small dof’s 👌👍been looking to put a DSLr rig together myself but smaller more portable version, but haven’t found what I need yet ☹️

@just_eirik Жыл бұрын

Sorry for the off topic question, but where did you get that round flash diffusion thing? I know what it is (I just lack the words for it), but I’ve not been able to find one that fits my flash.

@snoogly Жыл бұрын

I have a very good Nikon F to Z tilt adapter, and a bunch of ‘ancient’ F glass that become a wonderful macro when reversed. But, I Oder how it could work hand held. I doubt if any tilt shift lens can work hand held, but I’d love to be contradicted, :-)

@MicaelWidell Жыл бұрын

All the photos in my video were taken handheld

@TimvanderLeeuw Жыл бұрын

That does sound like a relatively cheap tilt lens! Interesting, but at this moment not for me I think. Perhaps some time in future!

@giklab Жыл бұрын

I had a Nikon 85mm tilt-shift for about a year or so. It was great for product photography, but only went to 1:2, and was F-mount. That is one stellar lens, but adding the FTZ and extension tubes to make it "good" for natural macro work created a cumbersome system. Too bad this lens seems to be a little poor optically, I was very excited for it. Would you happen to have macro samples available for download?

@MicaelWidell Жыл бұрын

Sorry I don't have any samples for download. But I can tell you that it is very sharp at smaller apertures. Only problem is on the wider apertures. So if you use it for macro photography and have plenty of light, it shouldn't be an issue.

@giklab Жыл бұрын

@@MicaelWidell I ended up ordering it anyway lol. I'll see how it is in a couple weeks, and at worst I guess I'll sell it at a loss.

@thomasemory4352 Жыл бұрын

@@giklab what’s the verdict?

@giklab Жыл бұрын

@@thomasemory4352 Thanks for the reminder. I am satisfied with mine, I think it's better optically than Micael's lens. Like mentioned, it vignettes on FF, but if you turn off IBIS it is actually not quite as pronounced, because the sensor doesn't push itself even further beyond the image area. The tilt effect is quite cool, though in practice I ended up using it less than I thought I would. It's still a very useful feature for product photography, for example. My current problem is having time to go out and take photos, rather than anything to do with the lens.

@redracerb18 Жыл бұрын

If only this was full frame. I know it's how you get the price down but the only ones making tilt lens for Sony FE is Laowa/Venus Optics

@SinaFarhat Жыл бұрын

Fint! Ha en trevlig helg!

@xXadambXx Жыл бұрын

if it will be for full frame i will buy it :(

@BigBoss-gb4cx Жыл бұрын

Why not use focus stacking?

@MicaelWidell Жыл бұрын

Because it is a lot more work and sometimes impossible when shooting something that moves fast

@tjalocha Жыл бұрын

ufff this heavy vignetting reduces the tilt range... better get a canon eos to sony E tilt shit adapter from Fotodiox and adapt any eos mount macro lens or combine with a mamiya 645 os eos adapter and use the superb Mamiya 645 macro lens. you will get tilt and shift and can use a lot of lenses, not only one. I use Contax/Yashica Zeiss lenses with wonderful results. the 50mm at f2 fives woderful results so does the 28mm and the 85mm

@tizianocompagnoni4035 Жыл бұрын

hello i would like to use this lens with my nikon d500 but i don't know if there is an adapter and if i can do it thank you

@MicaelWidell Жыл бұрын

No I think this one only fits mirrorless cameras

@BHFWaterloo Жыл бұрын

Would you recommend full frame over aps-c for macro

@MicaelWidell Жыл бұрын

I would say it doesn’t matter. Few people (maybe zero) can tell the difference.

@tamalkantikairi5878 Жыл бұрын

Tilt is the future of Macro.

@geofflongford2008 Жыл бұрын

Nikon etc have had tilt shift macro lenses for years

@AMTunLimited Жыл бұрын

Maybe I'm just not used to macro lenses, or interchangable lenses in general, because that focus throw seems a million miles long! Then again, I guess I'm not dealing with a DOF of millimeters...fair enough

@nelsonpiedade61 Жыл бұрын

can i adapt this lens to my Canon 400d Rebeleos!??

@MicaelWidell Жыл бұрын

I don’t think so because it is for mirrorless

@TheMrxveyron Жыл бұрын

hi can this lens remplace stacking photo macro for photo macro in studio?

@MicaelWidell Жыл бұрын

To some extent yes - in certain angles. But it only tilts 8 degrees.

@TheMrxveyron Жыл бұрын

@@MicaelWidell thanks for the answer mate 🙏🏻 just lil question on the Laowa 90mm I just bought it and I really love it but it’s normal that de dof is so small?

@mohammadvahdani214 Жыл бұрын

Does it work in jewelry !?

@MicaelWidell Жыл бұрын

Probably great for jewellery!

@mohammadvahdani214 Жыл бұрын

Thx bro

@BrightExposure 2 ай бұрын

it is well built for a cheap lens.

@tiltil9442 Жыл бұрын

To some degree.

@MorningDriftwood Жыл бұрын

👍

@thepirateshoots Жыл бұрын

The answer is, frankly: no!

@antoniolazarski9361 Жыл бұрын

Can't you just up the lights and get your focal?

@MicaelWidell Жыл бұрын

@alainthibodeau9602 Жыл бұрын

Tilting lens a based on the Scheimpflug principle. I used that principle on an engineering project for medical equipment when I graduated from mechanical engineering in 1980. We were working on a system to analyse and numerically describe the shape of handicaped feet so we could later numericallly produce a mold of the feet with some kind of CNC machine. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheimpflug_principle. Visit the following link.