The Artra Lab Motus 50mm f/1.6 Tilt-Shift Lens for FUJIFILM X is designed for architecture and landscape enthusiasts or those who desire to have greater control over their camera's depth of field. This lens provides a wide f/1.6 aperture for excellent performance under low-light scenarios and beautiful bokeh, an important feature for tilt-shift lenses. Its low-reflective multilayer coating provides protection against dust, oil, and scratches. Additionally, this lens sports a manual focus design and is equivalent to a 75mm when being used on an APS-C system.
Benefits
- In architecture, tilt-shift lenses straighten out lines that appear crooked because of the perspective. A tilt-shift lens will make a building appear more imposing by straightening out that perspective. Often, it’s impossible to get far enough away from a building in a crowded city to photograph the structure without pointing the camera up. Adjusting the angle of a tilt shift lens can reduce the feeling of looking up at that building.
- When shooting a sequence of images to stitch together a panorama, a tilt-shift lens prevents the parallax error where the horizon appears to bend.
- Tilt-shift lenses also create the toy town effect, or making real objects look like fake miniature replicas. Toy towns are often created with the camera pointed down and the lens pointed up, often from a high vantage point.