Got a new toy! Macro TILT ring.

MrGreen wrote in post #8683383
Isn't that what the focus ring does? I don't see how it's different.

The plane you may want most of the focus on is not necessarily the plane that is parallel to the image sensor.

MrGreen wrote in post #8682762
Not to sound too cynical here, but what's the point of this contraption? Other than a tilted extension tube, why would you want to tilt your macro??

For the same reasons you would want a "normal" Tilt/shift lens. The only difference is you are shooting something small.

If you want to shoot... say.... the insides of a watch.... but you do not want it square to the camera, you want it to fall away some but still be all in focus, and keep the proportions correct. The same way as when shooting a building with a T/S. The tilt will allow you to get it all in focus beyond what a lens can normaly do. Or, just the oposite, say you do want the watch totaly square to the camera but only want the conpanys name on a support in focus... this will let you do that.

Sure you can do a lot of it in post. But there are still a lot of us that would rather get it right, in camera. Rather than doing the "we can fix it later in post"