Everything You wanted To Know about DIYing a Tilt Shift Lens For Less Than $10
Tilt Shift Lenses are cool. They are those lenses that allow you to take those miniature looking photographs.
I dare you to get a real one; Both Nikon and Canon models are so pricey that you have to give a kidney to afford them. (OK, maybe just a pinky). But we have some good news. Bhautik Joshi (the inventor of the weirdly named plunger cam) and John Swierzbin (who is a DIY lens master) came up with an extensive tutorial about building your own tilt shift lenses.
Actually this is definitely the best tilt shift tut that I have ever seen and it covers the theory (with very clear diagrams), how to fake the tilt-shift effect, and an explanation on how to build one.
They also share tutorials for four DIYed tilt shift lenses: Bendycam, Plugercam Classic, Plungercam mini and Plugercam 2. Each is a great afternoon project to build. And only cost about $10. (you can make about 220 DIY lenses for the price of a commercial one ;)
The amazing guide can be found here.
The time lapse video below demonstrates the full extent of the plunger tilt-shift effect.
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typo
"the inverter of the weirdly named plunger cam" ... i'm guessing you meant the *inventor* ;) lol ... definitely gonna have to give this a shot!!!
re: inverter
I wonder what was going through my head at the time.... thanks for noting this.
Great post! I created a DIY
Great post!
I created a DIY Tilt shift lens on a similair design by both Bhautik and John.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogman2212/4580515021/
Here are some of the results:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogman2212/4590598704/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogman2212/4594958329/
Thanks for your inspirational website!
Don't know yet what I will
Don't know yet what I will use this for but with limited money to spend on lenses and a love of all things DIY I think I may be able to figure something out...great information!!
really interesting...
really interesting...
tilt lens
I just did a tilt lens (bendycam) for my nikon d90. I used a tamron 28mm f2.5 adaptall2, unfortunately I really need to be at few inch of the subject to get .....something blury, do you have any idea why i can't get the shoot focus correctly ?
thank for the topic anyway
The same happened to me using
The same happened to me using a D90 + a Fujinon 28mm f 3,5 lens.
And I have no idea about how to fix it.
These are not Tilt-Shift, just Tilt.
All of these designs are just Tilt lenses, not Tilt-Shift. Has anyone figured out a DIY Shift lens? where the axis of the lens is held perpendicular to the film plane but allowed to shift up/down/right/left of the camera axis? Tilt lenses are good for the "miniature image" effect, but a Shift lens will allow you to correct perspective distortion that happens when your camera is angled up or down.
Here there are more home made
Here there are more home made tilt lenses.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nick_cool2000/
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