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And I always thought tilt/shift lenses were for making buildings straight!  I'd love to learn more about how this is done.You can shift the lens up/down (or if it is rotated: left/right) to allow you to keep your camera parallel to the structure (like a building) in order to keep the perspective (lines) straight. But you also can tilt the lens elements at an angle, which modifies the focal plane to be not parallel with the sensor/film. They're a LOT of fun to play with... canon makes 3 versions, TSE24, 45, and 90. I have the wide and tele versions, and LOVE them, particularly the 90mm one. They are manual focus only... which is actually great for video (5dii). I tend to like odd lenses... the 90mm TS and the 15mm fisheye are two of my favorite "fun" lenses. Not too practical in many situations... but definitely fun. Unfortunately I managed to bend my 15mm fisheye lens skiing (and running video) this past weekend when a tree decided to dramatically slow down my forward progress. Amazingly enough, the only damage was cosmetic (to me and to the lens)... bent hood on the lens and a few cuts/scrapes, bruises and a bruised (or possibly fractured?) thumb bone on me. Both the camera and I still function fine, even tho we both look a little worse for the wear. It would have been interesting to have been running video at that time, cause I blacked out for part of it.
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With DSLR timelapse you can fake the tilt-shift effect using photoshop. Keith Loutit obviously has the lens, but I've faked it without:
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