Mon May 25, 2020 8:17 am
I dare to disagree, but since the OP is referring both to architecture and real estate, I'd like to explain this further. I own a tilt-shift lens (by Minolta) and enjoy it for shooting classical and historical architecture when I can't get the desired framing by changing my position. But even laypeople sometimes notice that it looks somehow 'different' to your visual experience (which it is). And then, the widest you can get is 17mm, and it's heavy and expensive. Finally, you need to stop them down for enough DoF in most situations.
Wider lenses with obvious distortion make scenes look fake in another, even more obvious way, and correction is losing a good part of their viewing angle.
What Venus Optics does is a remarkable feat, they offer 12mm, and then even 9mm (for drone or MFT) with truly low distortion, and very low weight. That makes the latter one very attractive for drones and gimbals. They are fast at 2.8 for such a wide-angle and very decently priced.
In conclusion, it would be a Laowa for me for real estate, interiors in particular, but a tilt-shift for artistic photography of architecture. Of course, the Loawas also lend themselves to art, as Li Zhe Yao and others have proven.
Now that the cat #19 is out of the bag, test it as much as you can and use the subforum.
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