AF TS Lenses

So, all the current tilt-shift implementations are manual focus only, for obvious reasons -- what good is knowing how far away on object if your plane of focus is a wedge?

However, that was only relevant with phase-based AF, now that almost all cameras sold support contrast-detect based AF (which doesn't care about how far away on object is, it just guesses and checks until it hits peak focus), will we be seeing an AF tilt-shift lens?

Perhaps more importantly than the technology being there, is there a market for an AF TS lens? Most TS shots are staged portraits/landscapes, very rarely candids/sports. Would anyone really want an AF-capable (on live-view bodies) TS lens besides me? I know a 90/2.0 TSAF would be my go to event lens (as soon as I got one of those said live-view bodies).

I don't think they will. For one, phase detect AF is still 99.9% of what Canon SLR users have, and there's not that many cameras that have a usable contrast detect AF solution. Is there even any form of contrast detect AF in any FF body?
I can't imagine them coming out with a TS lens that wouldn't work on the majority of the cameras. Even if contrast detect would work on every body, it only works in live view, so it's still extremely limited.

Yes.

I would pay a $200 premium on the all of the TS-E's for AF.

However I would expect the focus to be dead nuts on, maybe even at the risk of being slow.

Would it even be possible to wire the AF motor with all that shifting and rotating going on?

krb wrote in post #11937958
Would it even be possible to wire the AF motor with all that shifting and rotating going on?

how do you think they wired the aperature control?

fr3d wrote in post #12370371
how do you think they wired the aperature control?

Aperture is in the back of the lens, AF can be (rear element focus), but not necessarily.

TweakMDS wrote in post #12370400
Aperture is in the back of the lens, AF can be (rear element focus), but not necessarily.

The focus mechanism takes up a lot of space compared to the aperture so I'm not sure it could be done.