Hartblei 80mm, ISO 100, 1/10s (tripod), about 7 degrees of tilt, a Unfortunately due to theĪutocross season I haven't had enough time to play with it (twoĮxpensive time-consuming hobbies is a bad idea).
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Shooting at F4 wouldnt be a problem for me.Įxactly how much can you tilt the plane of focus? Could you maybe take a headshot of someone at maximum tilt? If you could post a full sized image I would be extremely grateful.Įarlier this year I bought the Hartblei 80mm super-rotator from I completely take your word that this lens isnt sharp at Ff2.8. I'm sure youve seen portraits like that before. The "tilt" effect rotates the field of focus and the "shift" effect changes the perspective?Īnd the primary look I'm going for is "face in focus, body out of focus". I could do a comparison with the 80/1.8 or 70-200/2.8 if you wanted. It'd be good for architecture, but 80mm is pretty long (and worse on a crop-factor camera). Good for portraits? I'm not sure, it isn't sharp at f/2.8 and as you stop down you lose the shallow DoF that emphasizes the tilt effect. I wouldn't ever call it really sharp like my 85/1.8, but it's acceptable (I understand the Canon 90mm TSE has very good optics). It sharpens up a lot when stopped down, even just to f/4 is an enormous difference. At f/2.8 the image is also very soft - far worse than any other lens I have (the example has had a lot of LCE and USM applied, and is really helped by being reduced in size). Of course this point light source is probably the worst case and the rest of it doesn't look that bad.
The example I shop above is f/2.8 - I'd have liked f/3.2 or f/4 instead, but the christmas lights in the background just look awful - if you have a 50/1.8 you know what I mean, but this is perhaps even worse. There is a color cast that the Hartblei applies, kind of orange, but easily corrected with Photoshop. I can say easily enough that unless you want tilt or shift, you'd be crazy not to use the Canon 85/1.8 instead. It is quite usable, just not really high precision (well heck, you expected that $900 premium for the Canon lenses to go The tilt control itself is not smooth and often requires some muscliing to get moving - another reason it wears you out trying to do this by hand and not on a tripod. Tilt works kind of the same way, allowing you to tilt any direction. It has a second button that releases that part of the lens allowing it to turn, so you can get shift in any direction, with detents each 45 degrees so it'll lock into place. It does not have any idea what the actual f/stop used is, but it can set the shutter speed appropriately. Aperture is set from f/2.8 through f/22 on the lens, and the camera's autoexposure system works just fine.
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The focus control is very nice and smooth, which is good because as a manual focus lens and one where focus issues are paramount, you'll use it a lot. I also recommend the Angle Finder C - it helps immensely to check focus. This is really hard to do while hand-holding, though possible. It is quite heavy and has a total of 6 controls on it, which means a lot of twisting and tugging to get what you want. I'm also going by my one copy of this lens. I've never owned a tilt-shift lens before, so some of this probably applies to any in general. As is implied by the shadows, the first of the blurry bottles in the background is actually the same distance from the camera as the third in-focus bottle. 1D2, Hartblei 80mm, ISO 100, 1/10s (tripod), about 7 degrees of tilt, a tiny bit of shift (I could have just raised the tripod, but shifting a little was easier). Here's an example image I took with it last night: Unfortunately due to the autocross season I haven't had enough time to play with it (two expensive time-consuming hobbies is a bad idea). Earlier this year I bought the Hartblei 80mm super-rotator from Kiev Camera for $311 including shipping.
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