Tilt-shift lenses are typically used to take shots of arquitetural stuff or just for fun because it's optical distortions. It allows reducing some distortions that conventional lenses create.
It's possible to convert a lens into a tilt-shift lens. In practical terms we need to detach the objective of the camera to cause a misalignment between the lens and the sensor.
Tilt-shift lens, how it works - the axis of movement
To protect the sensor from dust and light leakage we must put something to cover the union. I used elements of the extension tube and black duct tape to attach them, the lens continues attached to the camera and don't falls off, has free movement and there is no light leakage into the sensor.
Once the objective is away from the camera is recommended to use a diverging lens to increase the focal length, to be able to keep shooting far away. Without this lens the "visibility" of the objective is reduced to a few meters. The down side is that we need to use zoom and is hard to shoot landscapes.
To reduce optical distortions and to facilitate the assembly I chose to place the lens in front of the objective, a lens with a focal length less than -100mm (the value may vary with the objective that we use).
Turn an objective to tilt-shift (click to enlarge)
Tilt-Shift example picture
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