It’s all about image circle. A 645 medium format lens has a larger image circle than dedicated TS lenses which has a bigger image circle than standard 35mm lens. The canon/Nikon TS lens have a 67mm image circle. The Pentax/Mamiya 645 lens has a 80mm image circle. A 6x7 lens even more. There really isnt much point in putting a 35mm lens on a TS adapter unless it has a smaller APS sensor. You can stitch x2 35mm medium format frames together which increases field of view to 17mm and turns a 24mp image to a 50mp image. Winner! If you use a medium format lens the Kipon TS adapter has 15mm shift as 10mm is not taking advantage of the entire lens

Thanks for a thorough review and your thoughts on usability. Fotodiox should use your video as info.

Lensbaby is more versatile than you seem to think. The sweet spot that you can move around by tilting the lens, is only an effect of some of their optics. But they also make an "Edge" series of optics that are allegedly quite sharp corner to corner. Currently there are the Edge 50 and their latest offering, the Edge 35. They used to make an Edge 80 as well, that you might find on the used market. Unfortunately there's still no Edge 24 or Edge 15, so if you need a wide angle tilt lens, other manufacturers are required.

The changeing of the plane of DoF doe by tilting CAN NOT be accomplished in post!

Shooting on real anamorphic and tilt shift is so much different than doing it in post or faking it in camera i.e. fishing line.

lol though I don't own a lot of lenses, I do have cine and anamorphic lenses, and now I am starting to try out tilt shift lenses.

Thanks for the detailed opinion, sounds like it's worth trying.....wasn't sure about this product , and the other options were waaay out budget.

Super interesting. I may need to check one of these out. Thanks for the video!

There will be very few full frame lenses that have a large enough image circle for this to work without vignetting and really bad edge sharpness. Maybe for longer focal lengths but I reckon for wide angle landscapes forget it. You can get 645 etc lenses but the widest lenses are 45mm with very rare 35mm focal lengths.

Wow, I had never even considered having 2 focal planes. To me, that sells this guy. Thanks!

Hi there! Is there an option that offers you the tilt feature but with no adapter to other lens system feature? I am an architecture photographer and I'd like to turn my lenses into tilt shift lenses. Thanks so much!! Congrats on the channel!

I feel like you made this review for me. I shoot nikon on a sony a7iii 😂. I too have a large collection of vintage lenses. I've recently found myself doing more and more architecture work and found i need a tiltshift lens. The de-click on apature is an absolute game changer. Currently a nice feature on the k&f adapters with canon fd lenses. But to be able to use any of my Nikon lenes as a tilt shift and then a de-click lens for video all for $200 is a steal.

The charm of anamorphic is shooting extremely wide shots on a lens that isn't stupidly wide so you avoid fish eye style distortion. It's really cool, but as you said pretty expensive. But there's some "affordable" options these days. Still the price of a camera body but better than it was 😅

Vignetting depends on the lens construction, not on the focal length. Stopping down helps against vignetting, but if your goal is to knock some things firmly out of focus, it is not helping but a trade off. I tried three Nikkor lenses: 50mm f1.4: it vignettes strongly even when it is straight, with 2+ stops darker corners. Tilting brings in the edge of the image circle that the lens projects onto the sensor. 50mm f1.2: it vignettes even when it is straight. Tilting brings this vignetting in some more, and this darkens the corners several stops. 55mm f3.5 micro nikkor. Not much vignetting. Handles being angled both focussed at infinity and close focussed wide open, but this is not so wide. I use a Ukranian Arax tilt adapter. Strongly recommended. At this point in the war, they can still ship. Recommended. 65 euro, and better than other tilt adapters. No shift. The Sovjet Zenitar 50mm f1.7 handles tilt extremely well. No vignetting to speak off in the most extreme settings. The Mamiya 55mm f1.4 lenses handle tilt really well too, but they are very radioactive, the oldest type more than any other lens I know off.

I have to add to the comments. This is mad professor stuff, and not reliable and could cause you to have to buy another lens to work properly if one you already have causes vignetting etc. Quite honestly, forget it - get saving and buy a proper TS Lens. I got my 45mm after saving up for months and selling a lens. I was blown away with it, I took a shot of a cellphone diagonally towards the lens, the near right corner angled into the lens. The shot included the phone, and about four inches of table behind it and two in front. It was a wood grained table and the phone was in a leather case opened like a book. I placed a bunch of car keys behind and to the left, in the top right corner of the frame. The camera was approx 12 inches above the table, and 18 inches away from the nearest part of the subject. I focused halfway up the phone using live view, magnified. I then, using live view, moved the viewpoint to the part of the phone nearest to me, and angled the tilt of the lens down slowly, until that area came into focus. I then moved the viewpoint back to the original position to double check it was still in focus, it was. After taking the shot, looking at the RAW was frightening me. You could see CLEARLY every stitch on the leather phone case. I pixel peeped the entire frame and absolutely could not find any single part of it which remotely had an out of focus area. Every bit of wood grain was sharp as a razor, so was the phone itself, even tiny specs of dust on the lcd screen of the phone were crystal clear. In all my years of photography, I was completely unprepared and shocked by this. With all of that in mind, please, don't be like the mad professor in back to the future - please go off and buy one of these things, a proper TS lens, and make shure you know how to use it. I include a link to a website which gives you some idea of how to use these, the bit you need to see starts around 8 mins 20 seconds into the video. Please watch the whole thing and you'll see what inspired me to buy mine. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/htNpoNmAr5ybYnk.html In fact, I added a 24mm TS lens to my 45mm a few months later by selling another of my standard zoom lenses. Still having fun with these and I keep finding new subjects for them all the time. Think carefully before spending on one of these adaptors / convertors, nothing beats the genuine article.

Great video, thanks!

As much as I would love to get one, I use both a Nikon body and Nikon lenses, and it seems that they don't produce any purely same-mount compatible adapters :/ Understandably, they make adapters, but since they have the tilt/shift line going, they could make straight tilt/shift options within the same camera system! Well, I thought I had found a fun new option, but sadly, unless there are any Nikon-Nikon tilt-shift intermediary adapters, I'm out of luck.

Do they make these for Fujifilm? I’m in need of tilting so that I can get all of the products (playing card decks) sharp and in focus. Focus stacking is too much work, so this adapter would be perfect for me. Definitely going to check if there is a Fuji version. EDIT: Wait, since this is an adaptor it increases the distance between the sensor and the lens right? So I would probably not be able to use my native lenses with it anyway right? I’d have to get a DSLR lens? (By native lens, I mean a Laois 65mm macro lens that is fully manual. So the lack of electronics would not be a problem anyway).

Thanks for the video. Minor clarification for those who may not know. Cine lens being "not so different for your use with photography lens" really depends on context because they are different specially in actual film production use. Same with real cine anamorphic lenses. Yes for the average KZfaqr these are overkill but it is an exaggeration to say that using photo lenses is the same as cine lenses and using a string is the same as using anamorphic lenses. Btw Anamorphic cine lenses are not really primarily used for tgeir glare effects. Those are mere creative choices made by DOPs later on. True Anamorphic lenses were used so that you can shoot 35mm film to shoot a wider aspect ratio. The image is sqeezed to the 35mm film and later projected via a special lens to project a wider cinematic picture.

Great review!

Thank you!

I want one of these but I want to use my x mount lenses. Can only find Nikon, cannon etc to x mount adapters.

You can do all this in post … maybe in the lens is different, but I basically I saw your face all the time, so I have not yet a clear idea of what this adaptor can do. Thanks anyway.

You missed the main point of tilt. It is primarily used to actually maximise the depth of field with lens wide open by changing the plane of focus into a wedge. Creating blur is a gimmicky use

At 4:34 I thought is that the Asian Cultural Center just off of Oakland California's china town? Thank you for making this.

Thank you again for this review video. I've been using one on my Panasonic Micro Four Thirds cameras, but I'm considering adding a full-frame Sony to my bag, but wondering if I can set the Sony to cropped sensor mode to make this work.

Wouldn't one of these adapters prevent your sensor from getting the entire image circle produced by the lens? Or am I misunderstanding how it works

Hello, if you are using fx lenses, when you shift, is it still sharp in edges? I wonder if circle image of fx is made for fx sensor,... Or do you use the adapter in combination with fx lenses and smaller DX sensor. In my experience, to have a properly shift ability, image circle of the lens has to be bigger than the sensor format... Medium format lenses for fx sensor or fx lenses combined with DX sensor... 4x5inch lens for medium format sensor... Which combination are you using? Thanks. Best regards. Bernard

is there a version for Sony e-mount cameras with e-mount lenses ? I can only find the ones that allow yiu to mount canon or nikor lenses...

i purchased one of these adaptors & am having issues with light leaks, any suggestions on how to fix this issue?

didnt manage to find a lens working with this adapter - very sad. anyone can help. tried a manual lenses but was unable to get a sharp picture.

Can I get GFX body mount to Nikon F/G lens for this adapter?

I'm afraid that not being able to control aperture is a bit of a showstopper for me, at least for using the Fotodiox TLT ROKR with lenses I currently own!

i'm guessing there are good reasons canon and others keep making expensive tilt shift lenses. for me, i bought a used one for $550. not regretting it

what would connecting one of these to a tilt shift lens do?

😀 what you describe as “shortcomings” may be better described as “lack of user knowledge”. Tools are made to help people, they do what they are designed to do. Don’t blame a tool for user ignorance.

Good advice. What FD lens would you recommend for Architectural? I have apsc sony a6600 camera

You kind of miss the point when it comes to anamorphic and cinelenses 😅

More demo and less talk please