There are four female screw holes at the very end of the lens barrel, near the front lens element (over, under, left, and right side of the barrel), where you can attach an included flash cold shoe for special macro arm lights or small led lamps, a very nifty and nice feature, pity that there is only one shoe included. There are 6 knobs at the end of the lens near the camera: one for tilting, one for shifting, and one for rotating the lens 90 degrees, plus three at the opposite side of each of these knobs to lock the tilting, shifting, and rotating mechanism. In other words, focusing is difficult to perform precisely. As you put more pressure, it is easy to overdo it and you pass the focus point to the other side. You want to turn the ring very gently, due to the small throw and big magnification, it simply does not move by gentle handling. You have to put a good amount of push on the ring to make it start turning, as it’s been stuck. This makes focusing at closer distances a challenge, especially as the ring turns very stiffly. This is a too small throw for a macro lens even with a 1:1 magnification and it is way too small for a 2:1 macro lens. The focusing ring has only 100 degrees throw. The aperture ring has variable distance click stops at every half an f-stop from f/2.8 to f/11 and only full-stop clicks between the three smallest apertures f/11 to f/22. I had the L-bracket attached to the camera to compensate, but it did not help much. This has made the tilt/shift version a bit too long and unnaturally front-heavy. The lens is prolonged for the tilt/shift version to accommodate said tilt/shift mechanism. Same lens with the same optical construction. This lens is made in two versions, with and without tilt/shift. But when attached to my Z camera it has some small play and wobbles on the camera a little, it is a bit annoying. The lens looks beautiful and seems to be designed beautifully when you hold it in your hands. It comes with a metallic lens cap that fits securely over the front. The lens is completely manual manual focus and manual aperture setting on the lens, with no electric contacts. TTArtisan T&S 100/2.8 Macro 2:1 is built entirely of metal. Sony E / Canon RF / Fuji X / Nikon Z / L-mount/M43 (Fuji GFX, Nikon F, Canon EF: ONLY macro, no Tilt/Shift) Nikon Z6 | TTArtisan T&S 100/2.8 Macro 2X | f/2.8 (untilted) Nikon Z6 | TTArtisan T&S 100/2.8 Macro 2X | f/8 Nikon Z6 | TTArtisan T&S 100/2.8 Macro 2X | f/5.6 (stacked 2 images) Nikon Z6 | TTArtisan T&S 100/2.8 Macro 2X | f/2.8 (untilted) Nikon Z6 | TTArtisan T&S 100/2.8 Macro 2X | f/8 (stacked: 37 images) Nikon Z6 | TTArtisan T&S 100/2.8 Macro 2X | f/2.8 (tilted) Nikon Z6 | TTArtisan T&S 100/2.8 Macro 2X | f/2.8 (untilted) Nikon Z6 | TTArtisan T&S 100/2.8 Macro 2X | f/2.8 (tilted) Let’s see how it performs! Sample Images Nikon Z6 | TTArtisan T&S 100/2.8 Macro 2X | f/11 (stacked 68 images) Nikon Z6 | TTArtisan T&S 100/2.8 Macro 2X | f/2.8 (untilted) Nikon Z6 | TTArtisan T&S 100/2.8 Macro 2X | f/11 (untilted) Nikon Z6 | TTArtisan T&S 100/2.8 Macro 2X | f/2.8 (tilted) The advantage of this lens is that it also offers a 2x magnification instead of the traditional macro 1x magnification, and besides, it is a tilt and shift lens, good for architectural and product photography, not something you see every day. But of course, they also are good for compressed landscape images and candid photography. Being macro lenses, they can give you great magnification (2:1 in this case), and at the same time, they can also be used as portrait lenses. Short telephoto macro lenses around 90mm-105mm are very popular and the market is crowded with them.
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