[JohnR]

Nikon 85mm PC-E tilt-shift lens. It's been modified by having the CPU cable cut - so what, this kind of lens is a very manual lens to operate anyway. The best part? The price - $700 - it lists for $1700 at H&B and locally it's $3100.

Been wanting one of these for a while!

[jqp]

Nice! Look forward to seeing some shots!

[Wind Chaser]

Sweet deal.  Thought about buying a TS lens too but there really isn't much available for Pentax.  Would love to see some samples.

[nathanm]

I know this is your site and all John, but if you start posting pictures of "Hey look, I made this city\car\nature scene look like a little model!" in Eye-Fidelity I may have to take strict measures!

No seriously, that's cool.  Especially since I am trying to get a T\S lens at work.  It is really hard to find images online of people using them for sharpness rather than blur.  In any case I hope to see some loomy scheimpflug landscape goodness from you soon.

[Bob in St. Louis]

How about a T/S T/L ? 
Neat. 

Bob

[JohnR]

I know this is your site and all John, but if you start posting pictures of "Hey look, I made this city\car\nature scene look like a little model!" in Eye-Fidelity I may have to take strict measures!

I would hope so!  No, all you'll get from me is slightly-more-in-focus spiders. Perhaps a fascinating fern or two.

Hm, he said he was going to post it today and send me the tracking info.

[Pez]

John, any chance you could post some shots you've taken with this lens? I'd like to see it in action. 

[JohnR]

To be honest this is one of those slower-than-expected things... Any day now I'll have my workshop set up again and I'll take a pic of the Thunderbird project that I need to get restarted - tilt the plane of focus to get all components in focus - that's the theory.

[charmerci]

I know this is your site and all John, but if you start posting pictures of "Hey look, I made this city\car\nature scene look like a little model!" in Eye-Fidelity I may have to take strict measures!

 

[nathanm]

I rented a Canon 45mm TS-E lens for a week and at least for the purposes of shooting miniature buildings and wanting to make them all sharp like real buildings, it was a bust.  The not-close-enough minimum focus distance is what got me.  I was rather impressed with the large degree of shift available, more than I expected.  For the most part I thought it was just not as nice as using a proper view camera, at least not for $1500.  Cripes!  ƒ22 and focus stacking seems to be our lot.  Although the idea of having some sort of live video output to a TV screen or a Lightroom tethered shoot seems like it would be sweet.