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Working with Tilt/Shift lenses

Introduction

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Canon TS-E 17mm 4.0L via Sigma MC-11 on Sony A7rII

Tilt/Shift lenses are rather exotic, they are mostly used for architecture or table top photography, and with the wide availability of post processing (correcting converging vertical lines and focus stacking) you see them very rarely nowadays, even amongst professional photographers.
In this article I will tell you what Tilt/Shift lenses are all about and what they can be used for.

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How to: Correcting Color Cast in Lightroom

Introduction

Color cast of Funleader 18mm 8.0 on Leica M10

Leica users where the first to discover that their old compact wide angle lenses with the rear element close to the film/sensor plane have some color cast issues on digital cameras. This is an issue that cannot fully be solved by the optical design – at least when following the quest to create compact lenses. But there is something we can do: fix this in post. How to do it? I will show you in this article.

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Review: Cobalt Image Basic Profiles, Film and Digital Emulations

Introduction

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Leica M10 | MS-Optics 135mm 2.4 | f/2.4 | Cobalt Portra 400

I have already been talking about editing pictures with the help of profiles in the past in the articles How I edit my pictures and Emulating Filmlook. This time I will have a look at the Cobalt Image profiles.

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Sony A7III | VM 75mm 1.5 Nokton | f/2.8 | Cobalt Portra 800
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Sony A7III | 28mm | Cobalt Portra 160

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Diffusion Filters – Are they useful?

Introduction

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K&F Concept Black Diffusion 1/2

Modern lenses are too good, free of most optical aberrations even at their maximum aperture. This led to a whole new market emerging offering all kind of accessories to make your pictures look worse: kaleidoscope filters, prisms, streak filters and black mist/diffusion filters, the latter being what we will have a look at today.

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Sony A7III | 28mm | Tiffen Glimmerglass1
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Sony A7III | Laowa 35mm 0.95 | f/0.95 | K&F Diffusion 1/2

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