Hey photo friends – Erik here. While I’m typically the video guy around these parts, I wanted to hop on the blog to quickly tell you about a piece of camera gear that I’ve been enjoying lately. I picked up a Tilt Transformer from Lensbaby about a month ago and it’s now a permanent piece of my walk-around photography kit. The Tilt Transformer allows you to mount your Nikon lenses to a Micro Four Thirds or Sony NEX camera and then swivel the Tilt Transformer around for some dramatic selective focus shots. Tilting the lens creates a “slice” of focus that can be adjusted vertically, horizontally, or diagonally, and the size of the focus slice can be adjusted by changing the aperture on the lens. It’s a great way to create tilt-shift style photography for a fraction of the price of a single tilt-shift lens.
Q: What is the benefit of a tilt or tilt/shift lens?
A: The benefit of a tilt (or tilt/shift) lens can be myriad, but mostly it’s incredibly effective at removing visual noise and focusing or drawing the viewer’s eye to the intended subject.
Use the image tabs atop this post to take a spin through a gallery of photos I shot with it and my Olympus E-P3 and see what I mean. Also take a peek at the Lensbaby site for more details.
sweet!
Nice pictures!
For those who really want to try this on the very cheap, remove your lens from your body and just hold the lens in front of your camera, tilting it with your hand. Just make sure your hand cups around whatever gap you might have as it would cause a light leek.
Nice images.
What makes me sad is all people look for in a shift lens nowadays is a tool to make out of focus images. It would be soo great to see more people using shift lenses and tools to make properly focused images with extended depth of focus and corrected convergent lines… That would be nice!
Stunning photos Erik and a very nice and cheap way of achieving these Tilt&Shift results! No 9 is my favorite shot, it’s just awesome!
Brilliant piece of equipment can’t wait to get my hands on it!
I must try this lens, brings me back when I used to enjoy using my 4×5 view camera!