Experience with Samyang/Rokinon tilt shift on Fuji X

Sjeupie wrote:

Hi all,

For architecture currently using my 10-24mm on xt2 and correcting skewed lines in post.
Looking at the Samyang T-S 24mm tilt shift. Anyone has experience with it?

Honestly, I do not really understand what the focal length is on the fuji system because it is named 24mm for all the mounts (including FF and M43...) and only marginal info is available for this lens. Obviously, for interior shots I need it to be quite wide.

As much as I love my xt2, I might have to switch to Canon or something for purely architectural gigs due to the lack of tilt-shifts for the x-system. So I really hope this Samyang could prevent me from doing that. I'm not too keen on the Kipong adapter solutions etc; seems fiddly.

Cheers in advance!

I don't have any personal experience with this lens but I investigated it a bit about a year ago. What I found was that most reviewers found it to be not so very sharp.

So I would say, it's a no-go for high quality work.

Your best option might be either a Canon tilt-shift lens for EF mount with an adapter, or a generic tilt-shift mount-adapter from Fuji X-mount to mount of your choice. I believe Fotodiox is a brand that sells such an adapter.

Then you can choose a (manual!) lens you like and the appropriate adapter version, and you have tilt-shift with any lens for that mount.

Just make sure it is a manual lens: manual focus and manual aperture. Any decent 1970s-era lens should do, especially medium format since they have a nice big image circle.