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The gallery shots were all done using my own home brewed tilt-shift design.

The NEW NeinGrenze 5000T may be the very first dedicated tilt-shift camera. The point and shoot digital uses a built-in tilted lens that produces the effect of miniaturization. The images can have the effect of looking like everything has been made tiny. Everything appears like a miniature diorama.

When used properly, a tilt-shift lens can create a type of selective focus. The lens on most cameras is perpendicular to the subject and to the image plane. A tilt-shift of the lens, which is usually found on a large format camera, allows the focus to cross the image plane at an angle. The result is a sharpness that happens in a portion of the image plane. Everything else is registered out of focus.

Real TS lenses are available from Nikon and Canon as well as from a third party manufacturers. They are usually produced for architectural photographers and more recently for serious miniature TS photography. However, because they are expensive to produce, they are also extremely expensive.

There are so many thing that TS can do. One thing that real TS lenses can do is allow for corrections for perspective. For example, you can correct for a tilted building by using a shift upwards with the camera held level. Done properly, the focus will be on the front plane of the building and in effect, you have re-centered the composition so that the building is square to the camera and the film plane. The building will look nice and straight in the image. Again, if done properly. On a large format camera, this technique is used all the time. However, the NeinGrenze 5000T would be difficult to use for that effect.

But the NeinGrenze 5000T looks interesting and produces some fun images as well as video. I would bet that Pentax, Nikon, Canon or Sony will produce a more functional TS camera that we can use for serious TS effects.

The NeinGrenze 5000T is a point and shoot camera with somewhat limited TS functionality. However this is an interesting and fun camera to use for unusual results.

Video is particularly fun with TS lens and a DSLR camera. Here is a great website for one of my favorite cities that uses TS video in a great way. Toronto!……… http://www.trending.seetorontonow.com/

Notice in the Toronto website, that the focus is sharp in the central areas of the video and out of focus top and bottom. The people look like miniatures which is one of many TS effects. This is a great use of TS! Don't forget to come back here to have a look at my book for the how-to!

FYI - If you like the idea of Tilt-Shift Photography, I have dedicated a chapter to fun lens techniques including TS in my book  Rethinking Digital Photography. You will find a few great ways to create the effects using your DSLR to create stunning TS images. I also show you how to build an inexpensive TS lens using easy to get and easy to assemble materials. It is easy and cheap to make, but is capable of amazing results while utilizing all of the functionality of your DSLR including amazing HD video. It is a lot more fun to create the effect while using a real TS lens than it is to fake TS with a plugin. Exciting, beautiful and FUN!!!

Check it out -  Rethinking Digital Photography is available at all major bookstores as well as Amazon.

Covers TS and many other techniques useful for digital photography and analog as well.

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