15mm Shift Lens for Micro Four Thirds to Be Shown on Photokina

As 43rumors reports, the product finder of the photokina website shows a 2D rendering of a 15mm shift lens for Micro Four Thirds which will be shown at the fair next week. Little is known about this lens as of yet, except that the manufacturer is a German company with the name Big Photo. But if you ask me, what this concept drawing looks like is a Voigländer 15mm f4.5 Super Wide-Heliar that has been retrofitted with a shift mechanism:

Either way, this looks like a very interesting addition to the Micro Four Thirds system. With its equivalent focal of length of 30mm, this lens could be a great tool for architectural photography. Why? By shifting the optical axis of the lens, converging lines — for example in buildings photographed from a low viewpoint — can be made to appear (almost) parallel in the resulting image. This Wikipedia article explains the physics behind this in detail.

While visiting the fair, we will try to get our hands on this!

Tagged as: micro four thirds, photokina 2012, shift lens

perceptivelight

While I am sure there is a place for T&S lenses the like of which I used many years, I recently discovered that perhaps that place has just shrunk a bit with the T&S blur function that has been added to CS 6. Its been possible adjust perspective and do a really good job with > transform >skew since Photoshop version 5(?) but now that T&S blur has been added, its like magic. So with absolutely no disrespect intended to Big Photo I am beginning to think its probably only the purist that will need to use a T&S lens such as this in the future.
- Felix Esser
  
  A T/S lens always has the advantage that no resolution is lost. Depending on the angle at which you shoot something, by straightening the picture in pp there will always be a loss in resolution.
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