Experience with Samyang/Rokinon tilt shift on Fuji X

Sjeupie wrote:

michaeladawson wrote:

Consider a Kipon tilt/shift adapter for Fuji-X. I have one. Works great. Mine is for adapting Nikon F mount lenses. So any F mount lens can become a tilt-shift lens on a Fujifilm X-mount body. I used it with a Samyang 14mm lens to get a 21mm field of view equivalent. But any focal length will work.

Here's the caveat, however. You will not really be able to use any lens correction profiles when using the adapted lenses when shifted (or tilted). Therefore, when the intended use is to shift the lens you are best off to use a very well corrected lens or you may get noticeable distortion with things like architecture that have straight lines.

Somewhere in my research of the last couple of days I found a gay (Pat, I believe) that wrote lens correction profiles on demand. That could help.

Would you mind posting/referring to some of your images? As per my initial post, I originally discarded the adapters idea (including the Kipon) as I deemed it finicky and not working well as I barely see people using it. So I'm intrigued about your positive feedback.

I think the problem with custom lens profiles is, that it changes with every position of the tilt/shift as the distortion and light-fall off of the lens are projected differently onto the sensor as you tilt or shift.

So a good quality manual lens that needs little correction is probably your best best.

Otherwise you'll need many, many different correction profiles and need to remember exactly what your setting was for each shot, to pick the right profile.