Tiltshift routes free#

Take a small piece of an old AA battery plastic cover and glue it to the aperture ring so a part of it still sticks out and you can move it to control the aperture. The aperture ring is not connected with any screws in the Nikon lens, but might be connected in the Canon lens.

Get the mount and the aperture ring out to get the lens clear of parts that could fall apart. When taking it off you will have to cut the cord (orange) that is connected to the lens. Take out the 3 screws from the back and take the mount off. Take your old Nikon/Canon 50mm 1.8 lens, if you have a broken one its even better - if not - you can just get one on ebay for really cheap.

Tiltshift routes free#

After my last shoot using the free lensing technique I learned that focusing at open apertures can be really hard so I decided to go the DIY route and build something to help me control it.' He glued the aperture so it will stay wide open at F1.8 since nikon lenses default makes the aperture closed, and canon lenses default makes them open. He wrote a small article on his blog about his 50mm lens he's using. 'I remember talking to Sam Hurd about his technique of free lensing and he told me about his 50mm f/1.8G that he broke and took the mount off to get much more movement when you hold it near your camera body.

'Some call it 'lens whacking' and some know it as 'free lensing,' but both use the same technique of detaching the lens from the camera, holding it close to the mount and slightly moving it to get the right focus. I tried it with many different lenses (35mm/85mm/135mm) and also couple of my old M43 55mm lenses. 'The free lensing technique was around for a while and i’ve been using it for a year or so. Dima told Fstoppers about the idea and also gave us a step-by-step of how he hacked the lens: