TTArtisan 50mm f1.4 Tilt for Sony E

TTArtisan 50mm f1.4 Tilt for Sony E

Looking at the Magic Lilliput

What is "Tilt?"
With an ordinary lens, the focus area is always parallel to the sensor plane. For example, if you want to take a sharp picture of everything 5 meters away, this area is focused and then stopped down until the depth of field fits.
With a tilt lens, you can also focus only a single strip in the image, while the rest of the image remains out of focus. The optical axis is simply bent. This allows the plane of focus to be positioned freely. For example, the following motif can be realized with the tilt function even with the aperture open: A house facade that runs diagonally in the image and is still sharp from front to back.

Two lenses in one!

With a tilt angle of 0 degrees, it is a conventional 50 mm lens, for example for portraits. This also makes optimum use of the optical power. This is because in the "normal" state, only the central part of the large image circle is used. When using the tilt function, there are then no limits to your own creativity in image composition. You can work specifically with sharpness and blur.

Video clips from the Lilliput perspective are also unique. The stepless aperture ring with additional gear ring makes professional video work very comfortable.

The large aperture of f1.4 allows low ISO even in low light. The soft bokeh, together with the tilt function, brings the distinctive miniature effect.

The tilt mechanism (8 degrees) works to the left and right. The angle of this 'tilt plane' can be rotated from 0 to 90 degrees (a mark is drawn every 15 degrees) by rotation. Tilt and rotation function can be fixed with a separate screw.

In the TTArtisan 50 mm f1.4 tilt, an optical design of 7 elements in 6 groups is built in. Among them 2 elements with high refractive index.

focusing as well as the aperture adjustment is done manually