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I can has tilt shift EvenSteven !!RBDL+S5h60X
http://www.creativepro.com/article/build-a-tilt-shift-camera-lens-for-peanuts

I thinking about following these instructions and making my own tilt shift for the hell of it.

Has anyone here done this?
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>> Anonymous
uh, this is closer to a lens baby than a TSE
>> Anonymous
hmm, no just no

lensbaby lets you move area of focus

a tilt shift corrects perspective
>> Anonymous
>>164763
>lensbaby lets you move area of focus
>a tilt shift corrects perspective

You're an idiot. Tilt and shift lenses affect the area of focus as well. Perspective correction is only one of its uses.
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
>>164763
You just flat out don't know what a tilt/shift lens does, do you?
>> Anonymous
>>164777

i'll revise because OBVIOUSLY it wasn't clear enough for some people

lensbaby ONLY lets you move area of focus

a tilt shift corrects perspective AND moves area of focus as by product

>>164778You just flat out don't know what a tilt/shift lens does, do you?

says the guy who thinks a lensbaby can change perspective
>> Anonymous
>a tilt shift corrects perspective AND moves area of focus as by product

Not a byproduct. Tilt affects focal plane's angle; shift 'affects' perspective.

>says the guy who thinks a lensbaby can change perspective

It technically could, if you were able to move it a little bit more. Also, without the fixing bars on the Lensbaby3 or with the older versions it seems possible.
>> EvenSteven !!RBDL+S5h60X
Haha, I should've known better
>> Anonymous
SCHLEIMPFLUG

GOOGLE IT
>> Anonymous
Technically speaking, a Lensbaby IS a tilt-shift lens. You can tilt it and you can shift it, it just doesn't shift very much. However, the optical quality on a lensbaby is intentionally very bad and there is no way to precisely control and set the shift or tilt amount, so it would not be a very effective tilt shift lens in practice.

What is posted in OP is very much a tilt shift lens. Given that it uses a good 6x6 lens as it's base, and what looks like pretty flexible bellows, it could in fact be a very good tilt shift lens optically speaking. The only think it's missing is some kind of method to precisely control and lock focus in position, though that would be pretty easy to make.

Look at a view camera, that is the very essence of a tilt shift lens. The whole camera is designed to permit tilting and shifting of the lens. A lensbaby and OP are both implementations of the same basic design with an SLR used instead of a film back.