TTArtisan 50mm f/1.4 Tilt Lens: Unleash Your Creativity!

Have you ever played with a Tilt lens? At just $200, now's your opportunity! It's fun, it's creative, and surprisingly useful.

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0:00 Start
0:35 How do Tilt lenses work?
2:56 Specifications: TTArtisan 50mm Tilt Lens
4:04 What this review is NOT
5:01 Why not just stop down?
5:46 Is 50mm too long?
6:39 Tilt use case examples
8:42 Join me in India!
9:16 Tilt for Tabletop photography
9:49 Tilt for Landscape photography
10:06 Rotation limitation
11:05 Tilt for Macro photography
11:38 Tilt for Video
12:07 The tilt-miniature look

From the manufacturer's website:
TTArtisan Tilt 50mm F1.4 Lens can be used on the following cameras:

SONY E-mount
Full Frame: A7, A7ll(A7M2), A7lll(A7M3), A7R, A7Rll(A7RM2), A7Rlll(A7RM3), A7RlV(A7RM4), A7S, A7SII(A7SM2), A7SIII(A7SM3), A7C, A9
APS-C Frame: A5000, A5100, A6000, A6100, A6300, A6400, A6500, A6600, NEX-3, NEX-3N, NEX-3R, NEX-5T, NEX-5R, NEX-5, NEX-5N, NEX-7, NEX5C

L-mount
Leica: T, TL, TL2, CL
Panasonic: S1/S1M/S1R/S1RM/S1H/S1K/S5/S5K/S5C
Sigma: FP, FPL

Fuji X-mount
X-A1, X-A10, X-A2, X-A2, X-A3, X-A5, X-A7, X-M1, X-M2, X-H1, X-T1, X-T10, X-T2, X-T20, X-T3, X-T4, X-T5, X-T100, X-T200, X-T30, X-PR01, X-PR02, X-PR03, X-E1, X-E2, X-E2S, X-E3, X-E4, XS10

Canon RF-mount
Full Frame: EOS R, RP, R5, R5C, R6, R6ii
APS-C Frame: R7, R10

Nikon Z-mount
Full Frame: Z6, Z7, Z50, Z5, Z6II, Z7II, Z9
APS-C Frame: ZFC, Z50, Z30

〔Magical Lilliput〕
Tilt lenses transform real world scenes into miniature landscapes, reminiscent of Gulliver's Travels' Lilliput.

〔Focus Control〕
Tilt function allows selective focus on subjects. For example, three ducks can be in focus with a bokeh background.

〔Partial Focus〕
Tilt-shift lenses let you focus on specific areas without changing aperture, creating artistic photos with selective clarity.

〔Video Optimization〕
The lens is designed for professional video shooting with features that align with cine lenses.

〔Two-in-One Lens〕
Tilt lenses can function as conventional lenses or tilt lenses, offering versatility for various subjects and guaranteed optical performance.

Lens Specification
- Focal length: 50mm
- Maximum aperture: F1.4
- Closest focusing distance: 0.5m
- Minimum aperture: F16
- Diaphragm Blades: 12pcs
- Filter size: 62mm
- Optical Design: 7 Elements in 6 Groups
- Angle of view: 45°
- Weight: around 452g
- Tilt Angle: 8°
- Rotation Angle: 0 ~ 90°

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[photojoseph]

Have you ever used a Tilt lens? At just $200, will you get one?

[reynaldomercado]

Best explain i watch on till now. Thanks!

[peerlessportraits]

I do not say lightly, because I have never said this of any explainer video: Yours is the absolute best offering in terms of gaining interest at the beginning and the physics behind why tilt shift works (not how—with formulas and graphs… but why—with history and the philosophical perspective, which is even more important).

[DamianBrown]

TTArtisan told me the other day that they've sold so many of this lens that they've paused the 100mm release in order to meet production demand.

[modernmusicstudio]

This is a really all-encompassing and comprehensive review, awesome!

[ubeeh]

As a long time Lensbaby fan, I've recently got an Edge 35mm optic, which is working exactly like the TTArtisans one - except with the composer pro mount, it's more flexible. But it's only f3.5 wide open, not f1.4. At the moment, the lens sells for 269 Euros on Amazon Germany, which is OK. I'll keep an eye on this, hoping they come out with a 28mm tilt lens, which I would take immediately.

[peerlessportraits]

Coming back a year later to offer my agreements and disagreements on this lens with respect to what you've shared in this excellent video:

This lens is in fact my daily driver! I'm using it on a Fujifilm XT-5. I march to the beat of a different bugler so I understand why you would say this isn't an everyday lens. I'm looking for the hidden story in what I'm viewing. So while I'd never land a gig photographing a crime scene for the local police department, I could probably make said cringe scene palatable for a coffee table book about cringe scene photos (I left the fortuitous autocorrect for effect).

Rewatching this video a year later made me understand why I always seem to gravitate towards rotating the lens to 90° and pointed down at maximum tilt. The funkiness of it all is something to behold.

But there is one thing I wasn't clear on after rewatching... you mentioned that you wish the lens would rotate (or tilt--I forget which it was) at less than 90° so that you could get the lens plane to line up exactly. The example you used was the angled stone steps. I struggle with that too, but my solution has been to rotate the lens in the opposite direction. I wish the lens would segment the rotation to 15° and sometimes I wonder if a shift feature works have fixed the issue.

I love this lens. I love your video. I love you for introducing me to the lens.

[robertpdavenportii]

This could be a fun not very expensive lens to experiment with thanks for letting me know it exists.

[A_Brit_In_Bavaria]

Use this as my street lens on a Sony A7Rii. Yes not crisp at the edges but that’s all part of the fun. Start moving out of the zero plain and it really comes into it’s own. Had an issue with focus ring coming adrift but the screws on the ring just needed nipping up.. Would love a 35mm or 24mm version.

[KenRossPhotography]

Gaaaahhh! *another* lens in my bag! 😆 I kind of put the Lens Baby series in this category too.

[BrendonKPadjasek]

damn, that seems really a really fun lens. Thanks for the lesson

[signaturemotion]

Great video! Since there is more control over the focus I always wondered if there was a way to use tilt-shift lens to go the other way around, that is shoot miniatures but make it look life size...

[GilbertTV]

cool lens, I have a 45mm lens baby tilt lens & love it for artistic images, would love to try this out

[JeffCreates]

I've seen a few videos about this lens. You're the first person to bother to think to communicate the physics behind what's happening rather than just moving the lens around and saying it tilts.

[manuelsoto]

Does it work on APSC cameras? I dont know if the smaller sensor effects the image

[deanisplemoni]

Damn! What a good lesson, with fantastic examples of a tilt lens! Thanks so much.

Just curious, practicality wise, what do we miss out on with this lens NOT having the 'Shift' aspect of a Tilt Shift Lens?

[tv]

Can you show me how to use this lens? very interesting clip, thank you

[chris_sparrows]

I haven't played with tilt shift, but I do own a Lensbaby lens, which is fun for more artistic stuff. at $200 this is definitely tempting. Can you adapt L to m4/3?

[JerryPH]

I've owned the Nikkor tilt-shit lens for decades now, and in photography, it is truly something that will give you UNIQUE and SPECIAL effects, that said, this effect is even more amazing for videos and the Tilt-shift effect in Resolve gets you 90% of the way there for free, if you have Resolve. ;)

[NetvoTV]

One video say tilt shift lens is just in lens crop of a wider lens, is this true? And you can make miniature with software blur too right?