Egami (translation here) patented the Till Lens design you can see here on top. As usual with patents we will not know yet if such a lens will ever be produced for the mass market or not. And I don’t know if such a lens is really needed for the MFT system (what do you think?).
Reminder: The German company BIG has shown the BIG Shift Lens 4,5 / 15 mm MFT lens at Photokina. A lens that is directly based on the [shoplink 33839 ebay]Voigtlander Heliar 15mm f/4.5 (here on eBay)[/shoplink] design. On sale next year for 999 Euro.
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….hopefully will come in different focal lengths and/or with accessories, good to see Olympus leading the way maybe this will be released within the next 12 months…
I just see a tilt lens, no shift mechanism in the diagram..
Indeed. Nothing serious. Guess that fits the MFT marked … 🙁
I think there is a market for this, and there are lenses that do this: the lensbaby range is available for both 4/3 and MFT.
awww no shift? meh… i’ll rather get the big shift lens. I do wish there was at least a 24mm equivalent shift lens for perspective correction.
+1. I’m sure it’s my limited imagination, but the only thing I would use such a lens for is architectural photography when traveling. A 10-12mm prime lens with tilt adjustment would be great, as long as it isn’t too large.
But PP perspective adjustment works quite well, I’d be better off perfecting my technique with that in reality, keep my camera bag light.
Yes, to be serious it needs to have both Tilt and Shift. And, it would be best to have a focal length of somewhere in the range of 10 to 17 mm on micro4/3. That would make it equivalent to the tilt/shift options on other camera systems. There are many adapters that have tilt or shift, but not both. Even with a full tilt/shift adapter, finding a rectilinear wide angle lens in the 10 to 17 mm range to put on the adapter is difficult. So, there is a definite market for such a lens if Olympus and/or Panasonic can get the specifications right.
Mft is not like full frame : we will have to compromise to keep the lenses small, either tilt or shit. But there are already enough tilt possibilities. What we need is a wide angle shift lens for architecture.
Plus one !
I don’t know what to do with a tilt lens ! If I wanted one, there are already the lens babies available.
I would like a wide angle shift lens 15mm (aka 30mm in 35mm equivalent) isn’t enough for architecture pictures
Plus one !
I don’t know what to do with a tilt lens ! If I wanted one, there are already the lens babies available.
I would like a wide angle shift lens 15mm (aka 30mm in 35mm equivalent) isn’t enough for architecture pictures
Look like my diy Tilt lens… http://maciekpp.blogspot.ie/2012/02/inside-job.html?m=0
cue RRR_HHH:
Looks like a Toy-lens – not a precise shift lens.
For information: The B.I.G. 15mm Shift lens, presented at the Photokina, will not come. The mechanics are good, but the Voigtländer optic was not good enough.
http://pen-and-tell.blogspot.de/2012/10/ringfoto-messe-neues-von-panasonic-metz.html
The shift mechanism is supported using IBIS ?
There are a couple of manual tilt-shift lenses for m43 which have been offered on eBay – in 50mm and in 35mm focal lengths. Kipon also offers m43 tilt-shift adapters for various lens mounts.
I don’t have any experience with either of these lenses or the adapters.
It looks like the Lensbaby Composer to me. ??
Same here.
Where is my mFT 14-54 or 12-60 from Olympusw? If there is nothing like that until next spring I will sell my Oly stuff and change to Fuji…
Does Fuji have zooms now??
It is not a design as such but a patent schematic which are often very misleading as to what may end up as a practical design. This is largely due to the need to illustrate the features that they wish to patent and to hide any elements of the final design that would be useful to a competitor and could not be protected by a patent. As far as I can see it seems to incorporate two transducers one measuring the tilt of the objective and the other measuring the extension or focus of the lens. This would provide information to the image processing unit in the camera to correct CA and any other optical defects. This would mean that the lens itself could be of a less complex (and cheaper) construction and the processor would be able to correct defects that would normally be imposable to remove.
That’s makes sense then. I wasn’t looking close enough to realise what that detail was.
Lens Baby? XD
There is much less need for a shift lens nowadays, as perspective can be easily corrected in Photoshop. It makes sense to provide a tilt lens only without shift.
A tilt lens is still rather limited. You really want to be able to swing/tilt the sensor for Scheimpflug. I’d just go shoot with a 4×5 camera if I need to shift and tilt. As you said, minor corrections are easily done in Photoshop.
I am not an engineer and I am probably talking nonsense, but I have always been wondering: is it technically feasible (at least in theory) to modify the in-camera IBIS in order to create a tilt-shift sensor? If it were possible at all, what would be the practical differences (apart from the increased costs of camera bodies) between a tilt-shift sensor and a tilt-shift lens? Would there be wild variations in performance, depending on the focal length of the lens?
having read this:
http://www.43rumors.com/ft2-olympus-future-modular-camera-with-tilt-shift-option/
… should probably rephrase:
“is it technically feasible to modify the IBIS or the camera body (eg by incorporating to it something analogous to the m4/3 tilt/shift adaptor”
Shift can easily be accomplished in Photoshop or similar. But tilt cannot and so tilt lenses would be nice – f/2.8 or faster. (If the lens isn’t fast, the plane of focus is so deep that the tilt wouldn’t help much in many situations.) I use a Kiron adapter precisely so I can have tilt control with old Nikon lenses. But not having a 14mm f/2.8 Nikon, I’d like a 12mm, f/2.8 native 4/3 lens.