Tilt shift lens advice

Hello

I'm hopingto buy a tilt shift lens soon (with a budget of around £500 - £700, so I'll probably have to go for a non-nikon branded lens) and I would greatly appreciate some advice please! My main question is what focal length to go for. I would mainly be using it for the 'minature' effect.

Thank you in advance!

Aside from the Samyang 24mm tilt shift lens and one or two insanely priced (Schneider I think), I'm not aware of any other non-Nikon branded tilt shift lenses.

The Samyang is OK but it does not offer the fantastic IQ value for money that the rest of their prime range does according to pretty much every review of it I've read.

I always wanted a Nikon PC-E 45 and 85 bit no way I can justify the price since it would be just for goofing around since I'm far from being a pro

Further to that, I figured lens would be rarely used

The solution I came up with was a Mirex TS adapter for Hasselblad lenses

http://www.mirex-adapter.de/tilt_shift_​adapter.htm

They were very responsive with Emails and item arrived quickly .

This German made adapter's movements are outstanding. The machine work and quality is typical German precision

Kipon is knocking off their adapter, but for what they want for offshore , I would much rather pay a bit more and get the Mirex

What I found neat with this, is now I can pick up relatively inexpensive Hasselblad lenses of various focal lengths

I currently have a 50mm FLE and a 120 Makro Planar. The Zeiss glass on these lenses are great , and they are a joy to manual focus ( I just go off the focus confirmation dot, or just live view )

My new 810 body can split screen the zoom of the live view, which is very handy when tilting

I guess these Hasselblad lenses aren't in huge demand , since I picked up both for a steal on local Craigslist

Only downside is the widest that is commonly available is 50mm . Their 40mm tends to be quite a bit more than the 50mm

This may or may not be wide enough for what you want. I played with a PC-E 24 , and since I don't need the shifting ( perspective correction ) for architectural , the 24mm is not required for what I do

Lastly, if you need wider, since the tilt is perpendicular to the shift, you can always shift the lens left and right to do a panorama stitch for a wide ass ( side to side ) tilted exposure

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Nice work. Thanks!