Canon today announced an update to their line-up of tilt-shift lenses, giving more control to the existing 24mm f/3.5 TS lens, and more impressively introducing a 17mm f/4L, by far the widest tilt-shift lens made for the 35mm system. Tilt-shift lenses allow you to play with the focal plane in much the same way that you can do with most large format view cameras. Check out the Canon flickr group for some examples. The standard use for this is to create deep depth-of-field even wide open and to adjust for perspective distortion, getting all of your vertical lines straight. This is a big deal for architectural shooters and editorial shooters who know that photo editors and art buyers go crazy over that ‘view camera look.’
But the real uptick in recent tilt-shift users have been photographers ‘using it wrong’ — creating interesting fields of blur that are unrelated to a subject’s distance from the camera. It’s a big trend in artsy wedding photography, for instance, and although I’ve never gotten into it…..
(Via Amazon.)
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