![]() If you’ve shot pictures of tall buildings, you know that angling your camera up or down to capture an image causes straight lines to converge towards the top of the frame (when angled up) or the bottom of the frame (when angled down). As such, this image circle can be shifted up, down, left, right, or diagonally to capture an image from various parts of the image circle. If you haven’t ever used a shift lens before, they essentially work by having an image circle that is significantly larger than the image sensor. The Laowa 20mm f/4 Zero-D Shift on the Canon EOS R5 What is a Shift Lens? The Laowa 20mm f/4 strikes a great balance, in my opinion, providing plenty of width, but without being too wide for a lot of applications. Laowa previously released their ultra-wide 15mm f/4.5 shift lens, which I found to be extremely useful and fun, but perhaps a bit extreme for everyday use. ![]() Due to large image circle required, wide-angle shift lenses have always been more problematic to construct, but in recent years we’ve seen more and more wide shift lenses, and this trend continues with today’s lens. These lenses have been around for years as a means to take the tilt and shift movements available on large format cameras and move those capabilities to smaller formats. Shift lenses allow for the control of perspective distortion, often shown as converging vertical lines, by allowing you to keep the camera perfectly level and shift the lens to achieve your desired framing. As a photographer who shoots quite a lot of architecture, I have always enjoyed shooting with shift lenses. Today I’m taking a deep look at the new Laowa 20mm f/4 Shift lens.
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