Tilt & Shift

Agreed - a bargain (or at least not expensive) I paid £230 for mine in 1981!

One HERE too if any of our Canadian friends fancy it.

Which Lensbaby do you have? When SRS were selling the ones on a Hoover tube at a knock-down price I nearly went for it. I'm thinking of the newest 'ball-joint' one, though. (Goes without saying that we're talking glass doublets here and none of the plastic rubbish:lol

£1255 in today's money using the GDP calculation!

I've got the Lensbaby 2.0 Hoover tube - funnily enough from SRS when they were selling them for £39

The quality is actually suprisingly good in the "sweet spot" and it's quite intuitive to use for snapshots. I think the ball-joint one would be much better for work where you actually have to slow down and think about things though; tripod work, macros, etc. I just figured that for the amount of use it'd get then under 40 quid was about what I wanted to pay...

Four 28mm shift lenses went on ebay in Jan/Feb last year, all for under 300 quid (bar 7 pence on the most expensive one). Not seen one since (although I do not watch ebay all the time so that doesn't mean all that much). With the weaker pound I guess they would go for quite a bit more now.

Mine cost me about £300 inc P & P couple of years back. ACE had one it's Bath shop window at £400 for 3 or 4 months not long afterwards, which made me feel I'd not over bid.

I've not seen one for a long time either, even so pitching your price at £649 does look a bit optimistic. Mind you, the price of rare (or highly regarded) lenses does appear to have drifted up in some peoples expectations - like the smc A 24mm with a BIN price of £249 (free post) - about £100 over the highest price paid for a simular lens in the last 4-5 weeks (one of yours I think Simon)


Steve

As for overpriced lenses, how about this one? Annoying that she refused to change the inaccurate description (it isn't an M-series lens but a K series) claiming the 'M' just means it is manual focus.

I got my example a few weeks back for 66 quid

Yep - that's the trader I had in mind. Also got 2 other smc A 24mm lenses at £169 I've just noticed. Real mix of selling styles - almost if the data base doesn't have enough examples in it for a particular lens, it goes out with a low starting price, rather than a very full BIN price.

Loks like I might of caught a cold with most most recent puchases - cleaning costs > than purchase costs


Steve

Win some, loose some. I had a SMC Takumar 135 for a nice price, but it had oil on the blades. The SMC-K 135mm f/2.5 was also a nice price and is perfect.

I chickened out of doing the Tak myself and got Robin at Harrow Technical to do it. Perfect now. I was thinking of buying the case for it from the same seller as the over-priced f/2.5. At least oil on the blades is fixable whereas fungus can leave marks.

Kris.

Getting back on topic...

Check these out: http://www.vimeo.com/keithloutit/videos
I love the ship ones! Makes me really, really want a tilt lens for the K20D!!!

I wonder if SRB have anything suitable....

EDIT: These are also interesting:
"Smallgantics"

Tilt Shift Miniature Faking

Tilt Shift Photography


Matt

Excellent videos!

I'm sure these folk could build you something: Camera Bellows

Had a go at Photoshop-faking it
http://www.ephotozine.com/u16488/gallery/1169045 and large is here -
http://www.ephotozine.com/photo/1169045/large

Matt

Matt, someone posted software that did this on here a month or two ago,
perhaps someone else remembers the thread. It was around the time of the Polaroid faking software.

shim

Shim,
It was me
It was AlienSkin's Bokeh filter. ePhotozine review here. Trouble is it's around £140

Thought I'd have a go at regular "Lens Blur" in Photoshop. The trick is creating a decent depth map first and the lens blur filter will use this to simulate the shallow DoF.

One software is "Focal Point", IIRC. Also expensive!
ePhotozine announcement here.

Just Google for "tilt shift photoshop" and you'll get some articles
Matt