First tilt shift lense

[tuorvonschaub]

Good afternoon everybody,

I have right now a little issue.. I really want to buy a tilt shift lense, but am not quite sure which one to go for.
I'm actually not sure anymore if I should buy a tilt shift at all after seeing a video (Tiny Sydney on Vimeo) with really sick looking tilt shift effects considering the fact that no TS lens were used to make it..
Hence my two following questions:

1) Is it still worth it to buy a TS lens considering all the plugins available nowadays?
2) If yes, which one shall I go for (mainly looking into second-hand ones)? I found a couple of good looking second hand TS24mk1 for 800$ish but cannot evaluate if they are worth it since I have never used a TS lens myself.. I theoratically could afford a new one IF there were a real improvment, but would really like some help/suggestions

For extra info, I usually like to shoot quite wide (16-35mk2, sigma 35 art, sigma 50 mk 1.. )..

 

[eli452]

The tiny playground effect is a side effect for TS lens. It is like the distorted face with the fisheye a thing to do (and then move on to the real things). A TS is great for buildings, small quarters, panoramas and tilting the focal plane. Try the 24mm it is a newer lens and probably easier to master than the 17mm. Very sharp as 24mm "regular" lens too.

 

[RobertG.]

Hi,
A toy effect as seen in the vimeo video can't be done with the Canon TS-E lenses. The effect of the TS-E 24mm, TS-E 45mm and even the TS-E 90mm is less strong. It's clearly visible in the video that different focal lengths were used and the toy effect applied in post production. The transion between the sharp and the blurred parts is not smooth enough and both blurred parts of the frame look identically blurred, which is normally not the case with a TS-E lens.

BTW, the use of a large aperture already helps a lot to achieve such a effect.