Focus with tilt

[keith_cooper]

I've been a bit held up by weather and 'real paying work' in testing my new TS-E17 - I took the chance to finish writing up a short article on focusing when using tilt.

Using tilt on a lens

It's got copies of the tilt tables I keep in my bag and the spreadsheet used to create them (inspired by Harold Merklinger's work)

I've noticed that while a lot of people grasp using shift quite easily, the concept of tilting the lens leaves a lot of people just hoping for the best, and twiddling lens settings.

This is the way I generally approach using tilt (as ever, there are others) but I'm hoping the article and examples help clarify the subject for a few more people...


One of my experimental set-ups - carried out when left alone in the house ;-)

[rethmeier]

Seriously,
tilt on the 24TSE is already hard to do.

On the 17TSE it would be even harder to see through the viewfinder.

Tethered would be the only way.

Best,

Willem.

[keith_cooper]

Tethered would be the only way.

Very true, the effect is difficult to see with the 17mm

However I found that in the example included in the article, liveview at x10 was fine on the 1Ds3 + TS-E 17mm.

It helped for this, that the room was relatively dimly lit and that I had my reading glasses to hand :-)