7Artisans 50mm f/1.4 Tilt Shift lens review
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- čas přidán 11. 09. 2024
- More and more affordable tilt / tilt-shift lenses are hitting the market these days and this one, at only $226, has to be the best value of all! Can it possibly be any good though, at that price point?
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Wowie. Definitely one of those lenses that you need to remember the sweet spot for aperture. Some of the professional lenses are good wide open, but the budget ones I've gotta cheat sheet to quickly remember the optimal settings. I do like 7artisan's willingness to make creative lenses on a budget even if the image quality isn't always 100%.
Not sure it requires a cheat sheet.. just remember that between 2.8 and 8, you’re good to go!
@@harveymanfrantinsingin7373 I like to know the widest and narrowest aperture for each lens to achieve optimal light input and image quality. Usually the range of 2.8 to 8 is good but I have some lenses that are perfect at 1.4 and some that need f/4 to look their best.
The shift function is also useful for taking pictures of reflective objects without the camera or photographer being in the frame.
Not bad for a bargain tilt/shift! If you just think of it as an f/4 then you've got a sharp lens with the only trade-off being that you have to use a tripod in dark situations for a longer exposure. And if you're going to be using this in daylight all the time then this is a great budget option!
Tilt and shift lenses always have a much larger image circle than normal lenses so they will work at leat to sobe extent on larger sensors also.
That's correct. What took me by surprise here though was that, even when fully shifted, the lens still gave a FF image circle
@@christopherfrost yeah, normally we see tons more vignetting when they’re shifted, but there wasn’t nearly as much as one of the other tilt shift lenses you did recently. Maybe it’s because it’s not as wide of an angle?
I think a key issue (and this is something I should have emphasised a bit more in the review) is that the lens doesn't actually seem to shift a very long way
@@christopherfrostMy guess is that the people who built the housing and the people who calculated the optics, aren't the same people. Probably don't even work for the same company 😉
I think you would find that many of us doing architectural imagery for work prefer 35mm and 50mm over ultra wide, even 85mm and longer for exteriors, and shift still helps at these focal lengths. There is of course a need for very wide (and expensive) shift lenses due to frequently-encountered interior space constraints, but if we could photograph through walls and use a longer focal length, many would in most circumstances. We frequently move furniture away from walls just to get a tripod further back and use longer focal lengths.
do you use the 50mm canon shift much? I ordered the 24 tse ii but want the 50 as well, but the price is crazy and lack of availability... I dont see many architectural photogs talking about it
1:22 nooo, what software did you use to stitch that? look what happened on the left
Agreed. I use Lightroom and its perfect and would never do that.
I know, I apologise haha! I was running out of time that day and it was a bit of a bodge job
Difference in exposure. Probably from lighting changing (clouds causing shade, or something)
Great review . Great lens for the price , function , and performance !
Its on sale right now on Amazon for 192.00. I wasn't sure with incorrect information out there, but your review cleared that up! Gonna pick one up and give it a go. Thanks.
Another great review! The Korn album on your shelf surprised me.
What is the difference between this one and the TTArtisan one? Which one do you recoment, from what I have seen The TTArtisan sounds a little better.
Thank you for the excellent review. It seems this lens is much better than the Tilt 50mm lens from TTArtisan.
Thank you for a very comprehensive review.
I'm not sure if I think 50mm is a little tight for a tilt shift or not.
I think I'd want something a little wider for say like architectural photography or something.
Then again for that price It's definitely allowed to be a fun lens rather than a practical one
There are a number of uses for a normal FL tilt shift. Like managing reflections, product photos, are a few things i’d mention. I use the 45 pce alot for my work.
I would have never thought you'd like Korn. They remain one of my favourite bands even though I don't listen to metal much these days but I used to a decade ago lol. Which album is that? 🙂
Must have lens for product/still life/jewelry photography.
Awesome review. Would be interesting to see how it stacks up against the TTArtisan 50mm f1.4 tilt lens.
This is an f/2.8 lens. Because you need a big chunk of glass for a shift lens they thought, let's put in big aperture. I think if you consider this an f/2.8 that works best at f/5.6 you have a bargain lens. As a shift lens, it is far too long. I use a 28mm f/3.5 shift lens that's probably 40 years old. I love it. Now if 7Artisans bought out a 24mm f/2 or f/2.8 full-frame lens, I would be interested.
Hi Chris, many thanks! I have the Canon EF 2.8/45 mm TS-E counterpart, also a very nice lens! Best wishes, Ralf
If they made a wider version I would buy it
With such a huge image circle, could this be adapted to medium format? The effective properties of the lens would be insane then. Around 40mm f/1.1 on Fuji GFX.
Yeah, but would you want to use it on GFX much more open than about f/2.8 ?
@@seth094978 It seemed sharp enough so long as you don't blow up the images to wall sized proportions. So yes.
Great lens to practise tilt and shift and have some fun without spending much
2:02 If you tilt a lot, close and far areas are in focus while the the area in between is out of focus.
Is the quality of this lens acceptable for commercial photography?
Got to be better than the TTArtisan 50mm Tilt f/1.4 - that is shockingly soft below about f/8. I love tilt for art shots - and this should do very well for me. Thank you for the review.
Clouds must’ve parted in your panorama; there’s a rather hard line on that hill on the left
The fringing and minimum focus image quality is a bit disappointing but I've been trying to just get my hands on a TS lens since forever, they just about never come in stock, so I will definitely get this one just for the sake of having the capability.
i think generally the quality on tilt shift lenses isnt as good compared to top of the line lenses without perspective & focus control. my samyang tilt shift is quite soft and has terrible flaring, ive also heard canons 24mm TS v1 also produced softer images. its probably because TS lenses have lots of elements inside, but i dont find it that big of a deal because i use them for architecture
Fotodiox makes an OKish TS adaptor series that lets you adapt medium format lenses to FF or APSC. I have a Pentax 45-85 645 zoom that I have adapted successfully. I got the lens for $200 and it is plenty sharp w/o vignetting. Total outlay with adapter is $500 ish. I use this in commercial product photography and it works well enough. The adapter has some weaknesses, but it can get the job done.
A fellow theologian who listens to KORN? Never thought I would see the day! Issues is a great album.
I'd love to see a review of the Brightin Star 55mm 1.8.
It seems to be great value.
Korn and Fantasia right next to each other lol. Looks like my eclectic music collection. Looks like a great lens for the price but i wouldn't use it below 2.8
Oh I really like Tchaikovsky and especially Mussorgsky too!
How would this look on a crop medium format sensor, such as the Hasselblad x2D?
Hi! A year ago you reviewed this lens (czcams.com/video/nPxvnTgpX5E/video.htmlsi=VhRrVXztN7rrLgHS) is the same lens of the current review or its a newer version? Thanks!
how many millimeters can the lens be shifted on full frame?
Is 50mm 1.8 AF 7 artisans lens are good for photographs
A link would be useful. Did I miss it?
Tilt functions were enjoyable back in the day. Nowadays I'd rather focus bracket and decide my plane of focus in focus bracketing software.
The shifting function is quite useful for full-body portraits, especially if the subjects want to look taller than they actually are.
I have the heavy and bulky Canon 50mm f/2.8 T/S. However, after inspecting the image quality compared to the 7Artisan, there's really no point using it unless you're shooting macro.
The 7Artisan at f/2.8 is around the same sharpness as the Canon.
It could be interesting to adapt to a medium format camera. Seems that the image circle is quite large.
I didn't take Chris for a Korn fan! 🤘
Wtf, i use the Nikon 45mm PC-E for critical studio work. And so far with YT compression its kinda similar quality stopped down…? Maybe you can do a side by side with the Nikon 45mm pce, Chris?
Hi Christopher. How do you do manual focus on mirrorless cameras. Do you use the focus peaking system? Magnification? What about portraits where the human being is fairly still but not perfectly still. Thank you. Art
Focus peaking is awesome with tilt lenses, as you see clearly your plane of focus shifting from left to right (or whatever the orientation is). It is leaps better than on DSLR when you had to manually zoom in to various parts of the image or do savant angle calculations to roughly guess where is was.
Not sure I see much of a point with sticking a standard 50/1.4 double gauss on a tilt/shift mount. It's way too tight for architecture and especially interiors, but too short and - as expected from the optical scheme - performs badly with close focus (what little it has), so not an option for product photography. If it had good coma correction (but it doesn't, because no asphere) wide open it might be a one trick pony for some weird astro landscapes but that gets old, fast.
I think the point is more providing the cheapest possible entry point for someone who wants to try a tiltshift lens for fun.
I have questions .. not about the lens, but the mini-disc album choices ....
Why no Z-mount? :(
Requesting a review of the siriu sniper lenses
Gutted this isn't for Z mount. Hopefully they'll sort it out
Just get a dumb E to Z metal adapter without electronics.
This being marketed as a APSC lens means that's it's 50mm on APSC cameras or 75mm?
75. All APS-C lenses are still marked their native focal length.
Like for the chair noise at 5:17
You listen to Tchaikovsky and Korn. How cool are you? That's the definition of cool.
No, it is an APSC Lens, because the the Lens has to have a bigger circle then the diagonal of the sensor to give the best result when full tilted/shifted ! Tilt/shift Lenses always have a bigger circle than other Lenses.
And he shifted it all the way and it still produced a full image circle.
how do you think it might behave on the XT5?? and you didn't show us what the shifted files look like on the APSC :) thanks!!!!
anyway I just bought it :) thanks!!!!
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To see Korn next to Michael Jackson, along with Tchaikovsky and Mussorgsky is mental!
50mm is too narrow for this type of lens.
Do you not understand why or how to use a tilt-shift lens or do you just not care?
Another youtuber showing shitty miniature effects with tilt-shift rather than showing howe it works in architecture photography...
Non wide tilt shift lenses make no sense. 16 to 20mm would be great for architecture. 50? Nahhh
50mm -and longer TS shift lenses are very useful for still life and product photography.
@@russellbaston974 i meant the shift part
@@carlosandreviana9448for the price, if you can’t find a way to put this lens to use…maybe you’re just not very creative..