I have a lot of T&S lenses, the Nikkor 24/3.5, and the very first pre-ai 35 mm. Then I have a Canon 24/3.5 and Olympus Zuiko 35/2.8. By the way, I also have a 4x5 Large Format. All of them are my favorites.

I use the Nikon 19mm f/4 PC-E, which is regarded as the sharpest wide-angle shift lens available, although I wonder if this new Laowa beats it. I don't suppose you are familiar with the Nikon 19mm to offer a comparison Richard?

Send it to me!

@@Bayonet1809 I was trying to do a comparison between these two lenses unfortunately couldn't get hold of a copy :(

oh thank you very much Raja J !!

Thank you for watching!

Thank you Mityvisionz MG for your always support!!

Yeah They are pretty expensive!! Great fun. still debating if i should send this lens back to Laowa haha

Glad you liked it!

Thanks for watching and sharing your comments!!

Thanks for watching Christien! :) Glad to hear the video helps

hey. Alan, Laowa has made a few lenses for L Mount. There 9mm, 11mm and 14mm released this year are all available in L mount. I would love to see this lens available in L mount too. 96MP high resolution mode with the shift feature could make some amazing panorama shots!

@@TheRealRichardWong Cherers Rchard, I shall check them out - 9mm on a full frame must be incredibly wide??? If you have any contact with the R&D at Laowa I would be requesting them to do a shift les for the l mount.. that would be incredible. I used to have a Canon 24m f3.5 T&S lens. regards Alan

@@thevalleywalker yes L mount would be great! I would want one

​@@thevalleywalker yes 9mm is ridiculously wide. here is my review of the 9mm: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/l9lpaKmgxOCVhIk.html

YES! I think I need it on my S1 =)

Thank you guys! Let's see if more people asking for the L-mount!

L-mount?? Explain more about tilt too in another video.

Thank you very much Maxwell!

Most other people make money from their KZfaq channel, it seems I'm the only one that end up losing a lot of money if i keep buying lenses like this!! :D

Thank you for watching :)

Hi Mario, I have not had a chance too play with the Laowa shift adaptor and not with the 12mm lens as well so i can't really comment on it.

Thanks for watching and I will screen capture this and show my wife to support me

hi there, Laowa's website have it listed as a option on their webstore, this is the link (affiliated link): www.venuslens.net/product/15mm-f-4-5-zero-d-shift/ref/11/ hope that helps

Thank you. Very much so!

Glad you like it SpookyFairy (haha nice name!)

This would be extremely useful for it

Yes i think so. And it allows you to easily merge interior pano shots.

a 2 image (or 3 image but resolution is the same) horizontally shifted then stitched panorama is approximately 9750x4024 pixels, so approx 1.6x wider than a single shot not-shifted photo

Hi Luca, to answer your questions: 1. Yes with the shift feature, the total angle of view (from multi shots captured at different shift position) would be wider than 15mm. IIRD it is around 10mm with maximum shift 2. You don't need an adaptor because there is a F-mount version available for this lens so that's perfect for your D800. And if you would like to order one, it would be great if you can order using my affiliated link and support me :) www.venuslens.net/product/15mm-f-4-5-zero-d-shift/ref/11/ (It doesn't cost you any extra)

Thank you Jino Lee!! I would love to see those lenses too! My last tilt-shift lens is a Nikkor 45mm PCE

Hi there, price is $1199. here is a link to the products page/official webstore: (affiliated link). www.venuslens.net/product/15mm-f-4-5-zero-d-shift/ref/11/

Thanks Wayne, when I was reviewing this lens, I was thinking you might be interested! your friends at Photogear should have them soon if you want to try with your gfx.

It is designed for full frame cameras, but you surely can be used on a crop sensor camera

i had that 45mm PCE before too! Fantastic lens!!

@@TheRealRichardWong I’m very happy with it! I might one day consider the Laowa 15mm shift, as the Nikon 19mm tilt/shift mentioned by @Bayonet elsewhere on this thread is super, but of course the cost is pretty prohibitive (the lens cap replacement cost alone if $70+). As an aside, I wish there was an F-mount adapter to turn any lens into a three-position shift... I have seen this for Z-mount (I think), but I would use it to shift down my shift lens across (if that makes sense) and so I could stitch together nine FX shots (each at 24M). :D

Thank you dylan! Yes I am really excited about this lens too. Hey wouldn't the nikon F mount version work on both Z and GFX as well?

@@TheRealRichardWong Yup, it certainly would, and even the Fuji X - with the right adaptors. And so that is surely the version I will order. The only problem is that one ends up swimming in adaptors. But it's more than worth it for a wide, sharp, well-priced shift lens tho! :) :)

It would be really huge lens on a m43 .. but if you do get one.. send me a photo of the setup and your results i would love to see that!

@@TheRealRichardWong With a m43 and that lens, it will work fine, because with all T&S lenses, you have to use a tripod for best results.

@@TheRealRichardWong As I said, I have many T&S lenses, and some of them has electronic aperture and then you will need a intelligent adapter, or one old lens. This one is a old school lens.

Oh yes true I forgot a lot of newer one need electronic support

The laowa doesn't have aperture coupling so it would stop down immediately when you change the aperture while other lens that has aperture coupling like nikon PCE lens would not stop down until you take the photo or enable dof preview

@@TheRealRichardWong Thank you very much for this clarification. Have a good day

I haven't try that myself but yeah you might get some crazy mega shift with a combo like that!!!

What about using this combination on a Sony E-mount to get a 3x3 panorama?

haha. i sent it back to Laowa already unfortunately. thanks!! No sorry haven't heard anything more about the filter holder

Yes exactly. That's why I mentioned unless you got a panoramic head, you usually would have this issue

yeah it is great isn't it ! Unfortunately Laowa hasn't sent me a sample to try out with the lens :(

@@TheRealRichardWong it would be cool if it took some Kase magnetic filters too (95mm?) I think one of their other lenses use that setup

If the filter adapter is anything like the one that comes with 14mm f4.5. I wouldn’t trust anything it. It’s terrible and flaky and no wonder they were giving it out for free

Exciting! Let me know when you got it and what you think! btw if you are ordering from Laowa website, it would be great if you use my affiliated link above and support me :)

@@TheRealRichardWong, I bought the lens and the 100mm filter holder with your link;) The good news is that both the lens and the filter holder are very well built and solid. The filter holder is constructed with metal. I have tested the lens with a 13-stop ND filter. The light leak of the shift mechanism is quite bad. I don't have another shift lens to compare so it may be normal for all shift lens. I can overcome this by wrapping the lens with a black color fabric. Surprisingly, there is light leak with the filter holder also. I have been using the normal H&Y 100mm magnetic filter holder with other lenses and I never had such problem even I stack 2 to 3 100mm filters. I have to wrap the filter holder with black fabric also. Now, I wonder whether shooting with the Laowa 9mm f5.6 RL lens and then correct the perspective and crop from the image is a better choice for long exposure shots.

Hi P Mok, thanks for sharing your experience. Re light leak, i have not done any test like that myself with any of the shift lens so can't really say if it's normal. But i guess a 13 stop ND filter is really a bit extreme so I'm not that surprised you would have some light leak. I remember back in the days even the Nikon 24-70 f/2.8G had some light leak under similar kind of test. With the 9mm f/5.6.. i guess the lens itself should not have any light leak but wonder if the filter holder may also have light leak when used with a 13 stop ND?

@@TheRealRichardWong, I guess you are right. If a lens or camera body is not weather seal, light may leak in under such extreme condition.

Haha thanks for watching and suggestion :) The main benefits: Yes Better IQ! Also much easier to do multi-shot and merge. And if you are doing professional arch work, you would be using a tripod to get the exactly correct framing and filter..etc anyway even when shooting on a bright sunny day, so with a shift lens, the work flow a lot faster and easier as you can preview the end results through the viewfinder/LCD immediately without having to guess what the result would look like after you corrected (and usually need to crop a bit as well) in post

yes?

Tim, wait a bit it may come ;)

what sort of comparison would you want to see zibik?

No there isn't

I "believe" you are right that most people only use shift, especially for landscape/architectural type of photos. The tilt feature is for you to change the plane of focus and as a result to increase or decrease the DOF. Since 15mm lens already have plenty DOF and you can't always easily align the plane of focus to increase the DOF without making the rest of photo look unnatural, most tilt-shift lens users are more interested in the shift feature instead. When I had a tilt-shift lens, i mostly use the tilt feature to create some toy effect photo (by minimising the DOF) or create some "special effect" portrait when shooting weddings.

@@TheRealRichardWong this is the answer I've been searching for ! Thankyou so much !!

Unfortunately I don't have any speedbooster sorry can't test this for you

@@TheRealRichardWong Ok, fair enough.

Yes it is! A big beautiful one!

haha thanks for watching Immoshotz360Crew!

haha i would love to share some love

It would work if you use an adaptor but probably not most practical

This isn't a prime lens. What other tilt shift lens do you recommend under $1500 faster than a 2.8?

@@Gloomwithaview Well, this lens is considered a prime lens. But in regarding to your question... We like ATG's recommendations, Voigtlander Nokton 21mm f/1.4 (Nikon) so we can using on multi-brand cameras. Then software to correct & shift to our contents. You really don't need real shift lenses, just know how to use the computer software. We shoot multi images in landscape or portrait modes and let the computer software stitch together. It's the software that will cost more than $3,000.00.

Shift the camera would give you the perfect shift , it would work like the camera has a bigger sensor. You can merge the photos perfectly, better than shifting the lens. I explained that a bit in my new Laowa 20mm shift lens review as well :)

You actually have & owned of of them, Canon 17 & Laowa 15?

@@angelisone I own the 15 and i've used the 17mm, yes.