@@ArthurR hi arthur! Thank you so much for the chance of winning the lens! Its mean so much to me.. i try to find your email but i cannot find it.. so i will try to contact you by instagram!
Thanks for the review, but this is not a “tilt” lens, but only a “shift” lens. Tilt lenses allow the focal plane and camera sensor to be non-planar, allowing more precise control of depth of field and depth of focus. Shift lenses keep these two planes coplanar, but allow perspective correction when tilting the camera. Tilt/shift lenses, similar to 4x5 film cameras allow both types of shift, and are common for SLR and DSLR cameras. At 18mm, or 27mm with APSC sensor, this lens could be very useful for architectural photography, for perspective correction. To bad about the vignetting in the corners, which would make it hard to use when shooting video with perspective control. You are correct that most of this correction can easily be done in post, but for architecture videography, perspective control would be very handy.
This would be a great wide angle for me to use when i photograph buildings to super impose the surface in CAD, it would save me perspective warping every image!
Another feature of shift lenses is that you can use them to make panoramas. Shift to the left take a picture, shift to the right take another picture. Stitch them together. The computer can easily stitch them as they will have a perfect match to each other.
ThnxX Arthur for playing around with this tiny gem. It would perfectly fit my needs while biking, when my massive Canon Tilt Shift 17mm stays home. I wouldn't mind at all working around the limitations of the Astrhori. The best lens is the one you bring along
You'd think that they would just market the lens to APS-C users and immediately diminish the problems with vignette that full frame users WILL run into using the lens... it doesn't make much sense to me, but still cool that they're making a lens that few others do.
This lens would be good for interior/real estate photography as well. When you take photos of rooms with a wide angle lens, the lines not being vertical do look amateur. Hopefully you will pick me for my A6100. 😁
it would definitely be more interesting if it offered both shift and tilt; shift only is extremely limiting. and with that level of vignette, they definitely should have marketed this as an aps-c product. tilt/shift at wide angles without vignetting is hard (if not impossible) to do if your goal is keeping the lens small.
This is what I was thinking. Maybe a v2 can offer a tilt and a higher f-stop so you can get that miniature effect commonly associated with tilt shift lenses.
I'm always being asked to make the lines straight while designing interiors for photorealistic renders. The camera needs to be perfectly horizontal and then the lens can be shifted if you want to look up or down. Cool review.
On an APS-C body, you get view angle/DOF equivalent to a full-frame 27mm f/12 lens. Focusing should NOT be a problem on an APS-C body. The manufacturer states that the shift isn't meant for full-frame bodies, only APS-C. One trick you can do, when you are shooting a reflective building facade (windows, mirrored surfaces) is to shift laterally. This will keep your lines straight, without getting your reflection in the shot. And while F/8 isn't going to get you much bokeh, remember the ancient battle cry of the landscape photographer, "F/8 and be there!" I think this could be an interesting lens for the APS-C shooter who likes to shoot urban landscape and architecture. For landscape photography, deep DOF is a feature, not a bug.
The AstrHori 18mm f/8 shift lens actually makes an excellent snapshot lens on a Sony A6000 series camera. It is quite sharp clear to the edges with an added bonus of the shift capability.
I have a Nikon Tilt & Shift lens that I love. the vignetting would be a pain. To me if your having to do post you defeated the object of the lens. I’m assuming if they made the front element being bigger it would solve that problem.
I hope I’m not too late for getting this. I’m going to Italy in a few months and would love to shoot exteriors and things and play with the straightening. Shooting on a6000.
Hmm, interesting. I like shift lenses quite a bit, but I think that size is a necessary compromise for good quality shift lenses. It's cool that they made a pancake, but sadly, I don't think that their shift is very usable. I'd rather go out with my Laowa 12mm Zero D + Magic Shift Converter. At f/8, it's quite sharp, and the shift function is very usable. Also, that mustache distortion on the brick wall is so bad! One of the most important feature of architecture lenses is that they don't have a lot of distortion, or that the distortion can be easily corrected. That means that on a shift lens, there should be little to no distortion. At least it's priced accordingly. If I still had an APC-C body, I would have probably bought one.
Astrhori in Chinese is 岩石星 which directly translate to Rockstar. The R should stand for that. Personally, I have an Astrhori 10mm F8 which came with a UV filter that has "ROCKSTAR UV 55mm" on it.
Heading to the UK soon and would love to try that out snapping the architecture in places like Cambridge where I cannot back away because of the narrow streets. With my 16-35. I still cannot get rid of converging lines. I see an application for the lens in narrow European city scenes and medical villages.
Nice review (as usual) Arthur! Seems a cheap way to try shift lenses and to see if it's a big difference using the correction on the lens or if it's "cheaper" keep doing all corrections on the computer!
Well, O think that fixing that shifted vignette would take longer then to fix the geometry in post (you can always crop it anyway...). But how is the vignette on APS-? I think it should be fine due to the crop.
Quite the interesting lens, with very little use cases. I guess it does get brownie points for ingenuity but like you said it doesn't really solve a problem
Would be fun if it was good for actual tiltshift for 100 dollars, but alas. Still an interesting concept, maybe we'll see better implementations in the future.
Thank you for trying especially cheaper and experimental lenses. The normal hobby fotographer can't afford 2000 dollar lenses. So it's nice to compare and see the cheap ones without having to buy everyone by ourselves.
Really interesting lens, would love to see what weird stuff I could do with it on the FX30 I just got. Does seem a little difficult to work with though haha
Interesting lens concept, pity of the vignetting. That makes is pretty useless for shifting. You're making one mistake in the video: It's not a tilt lens, it's a shift lens. tilting is changing the angle of the lens to create a depth of field effect.
If only they fixed the vignetting and scaled the lens up a bit so it would be better on full frame! I have been searching on eBay for old ef mount tilt shifts and all of the options are too heavy, bulky, and clumsy to use (or too expensive)! When this lens was announced I was super stoked but reviews seem to show that it's not as amazing as advertised. I do love playing around with cheap Chinese manual lenses like these though!
@@ArthurR if it's a standing desk then I totally get it. Happy New Year to you and your family. I've been following you for years. I started my Sony a6300 journey because of you. My photography has improved immensely. Thank you.
Well!! Not every lens has been invented. Sony still hasn't made fast 23 and 27 mm pancake lenses for its Apsc line up. Much needed lenses for the range finder like Sony Apsc.
I actually would like this lens, but as it happens, it is of little use to me, right now, as I don't actually have a camera. I will soon, I hope, but right now, it will be somewhat difficult to enjoy it. ;)
este lente esta perfecto para tomar fotos de edificios e interiores para promocionar propiedades, a f8 siempre y con un tripie, las opciones de lentes para estas fotos suelen estar arriba de los 1000 dolares y el resultado es casi parecido, laowa tiene opciones muy interesantes, pero sin duda este lente me es más interesante por precio, saludos desde Mexico
What a unique lens! Would be happy to try it 😂😂😂
Winner winner! Email me and I’ll get this out to you!
@@ArthurR hi arthur! Thank you so much for the chance of winning the lens! Its mean so much to me.. i try to find your email but i cannot find it.. so i will try to contact you by instagram!
Thanks for the review, but this is not a “tilt” lens, but only a “shift” lens. Tilt lenses allow the focal plane and camera sensor to be non-planar, allowing more precise control of depth of field and depth of focus. Shift lenses keep these two planes coplanar, but allow perspective correction when tilting the camera. Tilt/shift lenses, similar to 4x5 film cameras allow both types of shift, and are common for SLR and DSLR cameras. At 18mm, or 27mm with APSC sensor, this lens could be very useful for architectural photography, for perspective correction. To bad about the vignetting in the corners, which would make it hard to use when shooting video with perspective control. You are correct that most of this correction can easily be done in post, but for architecture videography, perspective control would be very handy.
This would be a great wide angle for me to use when i photograph buildings to super impose the surface in CAD, it would save me perspective warping every image!
Another feature of shift lenses is that you can use them to make panoramas. Shift to the left take a picture, shift to the right take another picture. Stitch them together. The computer can easily stitch them as they will have a perfect match to each other.
ThnxX Arthur for playing around with this tiny gem. It would perfectly fit my needs while biking, when my massive Canon Tilt Shift 17mm stays home. I wouldn't mind at all working around the limitations of the Astrhori. The best lens is the one you bring along
You'd think that they would just market the lens to APS-C users and immediately diminish the problems with vignette that full frame users WILL run into using the lens... it doesn't make much sense to me, but still cool that they're making a lens that few others do.
This lens would be good for interior/real estate photography as well. When you take photos of rooms with a wide angle lens, the lines not being vertical do look amateur. Hopefully you will pick me for my A6100. 😁
it would definitely be more interesting if it offered both shift and tilt; shift only is extremely limiting. and with that level of vignette, they definitely should have marketed this as an aps-c product. tilt/shift at wide angles without vignetting is hard (if not impossible) to do if your goal is keeping the lens small.
This is what I was thinking. Maybe a v2 can offer a tilt and a higher f-stop so you can get that miniature effect commonly associated with tilt shift lenses.
Tilting makes little sense for f8 and 18mm
They put the R Logo there for your Channel.
Interesting lens, would be glad if i can try it. Thank you for your review, probably your channel is one of my favorite about reviewing lens
I'm always being asked to make the lines straight while designing interiors for photorealistic renders. The camera needs to be perfectly horizontal and then the lens can be shifted if you want to look up or down. Cool review.
On an APS-C body, you get view angle/DOF equivalent to a full-frame 27mm f/12 lens. Focusing should NOT be a problem on an APS-C body. The manufacturer states that the shift isn't meant for full-frame bodies, only APS-C. One trick you can do, when you are shooting a reflective building facade (windows, mirrored surfaces) is to shift laterally. This will keep your lines straight, without getting your reflection in the shot.
And while F/8 isn't going to get you much bokeh, remember the ancient battle cry of the landscape photographer, "F/8 and be there!" I think this could be an interesting lens for the APS-C shooter who likes to shoot urban landscape and architecture. For landscape photography, deep DOF is a feature, not a bug.
Always straight to the point and honest, that's what I like about your channel.
Looks like a fun one to play with. If you are not used to that look you can really try to all sort of things and give it a different appeal
The AstrHori 18mm f/8 shift lens actually makes an excellent snapshot lens on a Sony A6000 series camera. It is quite sharp clear to the edges with an added bonus of the shift capability.
I have a Nikon Tilt & Shift lens that I love. the vignetting would be a pain. To me if your having to do post you defeated the object of the lens. I’m assuming if they made the front element being bigger it would solve that problem.
I hope I’m not too late for getting this. I’m going to Italy in a few months and would love to shoot exteriors and things and play with the straightening. Shooting on a6000.
Solid review as always. I would be pumped to try it paired with the Sony a6400!
Hmm, interesting. I like shift lenses quite a bit, but I think that size is a necessary compromise for good quality shift lenses. It's cool that they made a pancake, but sadly, I don't think that their shift is very usable. I'd rather go out with my Laowa 12mm Zero D + Magic Shift Converter. At f/8, it's quite sharp, and the shift function is very usable.
Also, that mustache distortion on the brick wall is so bad! One of the most important feature of architecture lenses is that they don't have a lot of distortion, or that the distortion can be easily corrected. That means that on a shift lens, there should be little to no distortion.
At least it's priced accordingly. If I still had an APC-C body, I would have probably bought one.
The idea behind the lens is quite interesting. Possibly the next iteration will fix some of the mentioned issues. Great Review as always Arthur!
I miss my old Nikon shift lens. I can see the problems, but heck if you send it to me I will use it.
It does NOT have a tilt feature! Looks like fun, though. I ordered one.
its like a open beta for a final product, hope this get well done in a future release version
Interesting lens. Thank you for reviewing it.
Astrhori in Chinese is 岩石星 which directly translate to Rockstar. The R should stand for that. Personally, I have an Astrhori 10mm F8 which came with a UV filter that has "ROCKSTAR UV 55mm" on it.
definitely using it for portraits making badass jawline and adding a round black hair shape
Is it really an APS-C lens? With the 6100 you don’t get vignetting?
This seems to be a nice little lens to shoot “touristic” images of architecture on holiday trips using an APS-C camera body.
Heading to the UK soon and would love to try that out snapping the architecture in places like Cambridge where I cannot back away because of the narrow streets. With my 16-35. I still cannot get rid of converging lines. I see an application for the lens in narrow European city scenes and medical villages.
Would be cool to play around with on my a6400
I think it is well suited for apsc camera in order for the tilt function to have no vignete
It sound quite interesting to me. I would like to put it on my next photo trip.
Nice review (as usual) Arthur! Seems a cheap way to try shift lenses and to see if it's a big difference using the correction on the lens or if it's "cheaper" keep doing all corrections on the computer!
Great review, straight forward and easy to understand. Would you review another budget friendly lens from Risespray, 25mm f1.8? Thank you!!
i work in architecture and feel like this would be quite fun to try out for some architectural photography!
cool vidoe as always
Hi! This lens seems not to be the best quality lens, but still good for architecture. Love your channel!
thanks for the review, true that it should cover the full frame when shifted but I like the pancake style...
This is a neat lens. i cant imagine it'd be easy to get the miniature shallow DOF look with a fixed aperture
Interesting setup. How does this perform on a APSC (Sony6xxxx)?
Well, O think that fixing that shifted vignette would take longer then to fix the geometry in post (you can always crop it anyway...). But how is the vignette on APS-? I think it should be fine due to the crop.
Thanks Arthur!
Quite intriguing lens despite its shortcomings. Also useful for video where you want building lines to ge vertical?
Quite the interesting lens, with very little use cases. I guess it does get brownie points for ingenuity but like you said it doesn't really solve a problem
Pretty decent deal for a shift lens. If only it were truly Full Frame but I suppose there are still some uses for it
This would be nice to to play around with as all I have is the kit lens so far for my Sony. Found your channel and really enjoy your videos!
Interesting lens for sure. Thanks for the honest feedback
Judging by the sample photos this lens is definitely not the best but it's interesting to see companies experimenting with new weird features
3:45 BTW it says on their website that the shift feature is only suitable for APS-C mode on full-frame cameras. Just sayin.
Although not perfect, it would be interesting to see what kind of new shots you can get with it
Very positive comments section. I wonder whether it has to do with the givaway.
Interesting lens. Would love to try this one if I have one.
I was underwhelmed by the lens. Thanks for the review. I'd still like it though
Would take a special person to tinker around with such a lens.
Would be fun if it was good for actual tiltshift for 100 dollars, but alas. Still an interesting concept, maybe we'll see better implementations in the future.
That's pretty interesting. I would love to get one.
Looks like I could have a different lens. Thanks Arthur
Thank you for trying especially cheaper and experimental lenses.
The normal hobby fotographer can't afford 2000 dollar lenses.
So it's nice to compare and see the cheap ones without having to buy everyone by ourselves.
I need it for architecture !!!
Not tilt but shift 😉
Nice little thing to play around with.
I expected it to be an actual *tilt* lens :(
Although it's interesting how the offset creates vertical lines...
i have been looking into Astrhori Tilt Shift lens lately but too bad I can't get this lens locally in my country...
Plese don’t send it me! 😂. Interesting video
The Straight lines for building is kinda cool, Can I participate from overseas?
I'd happily use that. 😮😊
Cool stuff, would Love to Experiment a bit with it
Артур, скажи, пожалуйста, ты полностью переключился на fx30 для видео? или для влогов она большевата?
I just asked their customer service on Taobao. They said the R on the front of the lens is Astrhori’s old Chinese(?) logo.
Astrhori in Chinese is 岩石星 which translates to Rockstar directly, so I think R stands for that.
Really interesting lens, would love to see what weird stuff I could do with it on the FX30 I just got. Does seem a little difficult to work with though haha
Hey Arthur sorry to bother you but can you please make a review of 7artisans vision 12mm T2.9 for Sony e?
Interesting lens concept, pity of the vignetting. That makes is pretty useless for shifting. You're making one mistake in the video: It's not a tilt lens, it's a shift lens. tilting is changing the angle of the lens to create a depth of field effect.
Would be a fun lens to play with, something different!
If only they fixed the vignetting and scaled the lens up a bit so it would be better on full frame! I have been searching on eBay for old ef mount tilt shifts and all of the options are too heavy, bulky, and clumsy to use (or too expensive)! When this lens was announced I was super stoked but reviews seem to show that it's not as amazing as advertised. I do love playing around with cheap Chinese manual lenses like these though!
Fascinating lens indeed. You're 100% about the need to find weird lenses. I'm sort of tired of all of these," Optically perfect lenses".
Thank you for doing interesting reviews! I always try an use your affiliate links!
Surely will be fun to play around with, or use it as a turntable🤪🙃
I'd guess its a shift not a tilt lens - granted both are often combinend for tilt-shift lenses for architecture photography.
nice video and nice special lense
I want this lens for my Sony a5000 to do street photography 🙏
Sounds like a lens I would love to add to my collection of weird lenses. Please include me in the drawing
@0:25 It is not a tilt feature, it's a shift feature.
I wouldn't mind throwing it on my a6100 and running around the city to see what I can get.
Nice lens for shooting trees and tall poles
Do we need to get you a booster chair?
Lol probably.
@@ArthurR if it's a standing desk then I totally get it. Happy New Year to you and your family. I've been following you for years. I started my Sony a6300 journey because of you. My photography has improved immensely. Thank you.
Well!! Not every lens has been invented. Sony still hasn't made fast 23 and 27 mm pancake lenses for its Apsc line up.
Much needed lenses for the range finder like Sony Apsc.
An interesting lens to experiment with it
I need this lens for my f8 vlogging so I can walk with my camera slightly offset to the side =)
0:22 - no, it's a shift feature :)
Its weird, but looks interesting to use it!
I actually would like this lens, but as it happens, it is of little use to me, right now, as I don't actually have a camera. I will soon, I hope, but right now, it will be somewhat difficult to enjoy it. ;)
IDK the form factor and interesting gimmick makes this a great lens in my book
That's actually pretty interesting
Not bad for real estate photographers on a budget
este lente esta perfecto para tomar fotos de edificios e interiores para promocionar propiedades, a f8 siempre y con un tripie, las opciones de lentes para estas fotos suelen estar arriba de los 1000 dolares y el resultado es casi parecido, laowa tiene opciones muy interesantes, pero sin duda este lente me es más interesante por precio, saludos desde Mexico
I'm one of those buildings in bright light with straight lines persons. Would be great if this Lens would make it to me and my Sony A6400.
should be good when shooting historical buildings in india where there is such limited space
You make your points most excellently; very limited appeal. Perhaps another case of "we made this because we could".
for a cheap lens this is actually fun. i like it
Hey, I would love to play with this lens 😁
It is very generous act to donate brand new lens though.