Experience with Samyang/Rokinon tilt shift on Fuji X

a_c_skinner wrote:

''still no proper TS offer out there'

I think that sums it up and with a relatively small diameter lens mount it probably will remain so. Fuji is a minority platform and TS is a very minority lens so I think it will remain the case.

Software correction (SW!) works well, to the point where shift is easily worked around. DXOViewpoint is the best SW to correct converging verticals but others do it. Don't fully correct, leave a little bit uncorrected.

People will tell you correction like this reduces detail and it is true. Also it will crop the top and bottom of the image but it works well.

Your best solution is a used full frame DSLR body.

Yeah I agree. I got my hopes up a bit when they announced the GFX tilt shift but I don't see the coming down the line anytime soon. So I'm currently inclined to buying the mentioned Laowo 15mm Shift Canon mount with Canon to Fuji adapter and wing it from there.

If that does not give the desired result, a FF Canon DSLR is the next stop and I'd already have the lens for that. Although I'd prefer a mirrorless for focus peaking, that sets me back big bucks. So something like a beaten up 5d III I saw around here for a couple hundred bucks might do the job.

It's a mess to use two systems side by side during one shoot though. I could also go all in and opt for an Canon R5 for example and be set for my sports photography as well...but then I'd loose my beloved Fuji system and dials (the reason I'm not going for an XH2(s) for that)...

Or get the 8-16 xf lens on my xt and try out the software corrections incl crops as necessary.

Decisions, decisions.....