TTArtisan releases its 50mm f/1.4 Tilt lens for Canon, Fuji and Nikon cameras
The younger however prolific Chinese language lens maker TTArtisan has introduced the discharge of a brand new 50mm f/1.4 tilt lens that it initially created for Sony E-mount and Leica L-mount cameras two months in the past.
Now, this similar optic is offered for Canon’s RF-mount, Nikon’s Z-mount and Fujifilm’s X-mount units.
The brand new 500mm lens is designed to be used with both full-frame or cropped APS-C cameras and presents a 75mm equal focal size within the latter of those two varieties. It additionally contains a seven-element design that’s organized into six teams.
The optics contained in the lens provide a excessive refractive index glass factor that mitigates distortion and aspherical aberration in accordance with its maker. This then creates superior sharpness and a extra exact stage of picture rendering.
As a result of this can be a tilt-shift lens, it comes solely with a guide focus which whereas completely workable, may not be helpful for some photographers.
What’s extra, it delivers a minimal focus distance of fifty centimeters (19.7 inches and its clicked aperture ring provides it a spread between f/2.8 and f/16 because of a 12-blade diaphragm. There’s additionally a 62mm entrance filter constructed into the lens.
TTArtisan additionally states that the lens is handy for professional video manufacturing as a result of it has been optimized with a spotlight and aperture ring which might be constructed to imitate what most cinema lenses can do.
As for the specifics of the lean mechanism, it lets the lens be angled to as many as 90 levels, giving the lens distinctive versatility and letting it’s used to vary picture perspective in order that it could actually create what TTArtisan referred to as a “Lilliput” look. This refers to a photographic perspective through which dramatic tilt makes focused-on objects look abnormally tiny.
Nonetheless, so long as this tilt operate isn’t getting used, TTArtisan claims that “There is no such thing as a distinction between the lens and a daily 50mm f/1.4 lens when the lean operate isn’t used,”
In different phrases, you should utilize the lens for abnormal photographic views based mostly on its focal size.
TTArtisan elaborates, “When taking photos, we frequently encounter the necessity to solely make some areas clear and different areas blurred. However utilizing a tilt lens can meet this want with out altering the aperture, and making photographs extra creative.”
TTArtisan’s 50mm f/1.4 full-frame tilt lens variant for Canon RF, Fuji X and Nikon Z-mount cameras is now out there from B&H for a really modest value of $199. A selected version of the lens is bought for every of its 5 totally different suitable digicam mounts.
