This Lens with Optics by Carl Zeiss is an exclusive Tilt-Shift lens with outstanding image quality. The lens is a re-housing of the legendary Zeiss Distagon T* 4/40 IF CFE, which was originally constructed for the 6 x 6 format, providing huge quality reserves for 35mm format.

Integrated rotating Tripod/Lens mount, makes parallax free Stitches possible, even in close focus/Macro. Users of full format cameras will achieve 183% of the originally available pixel size with a shift of 2x10mm horizontally. The resulting image angle will be comparable to a 30mm lens (on correlation to 35mm format). For example, if you stitch two exposures as portrait formats, this will result in a usable chipsize of 44x36mm (at 4 mm overlapping), this gives you a picture diagonale of 56.8 mm by 43.2 mm diagonale at 24/36 = Factor 1.3

Along with the 10mm of shift, you can achieve up to 8 degrees of tilt. All Hartblei Tilt-Shift lenses are so called Superrotators, meaning that the Shift and Tilt functions can be used independently with 360 degrees rotation. With this you can nearly substitute a view camera.

The lens has internal focusing with a close focus distance of 1.6 feet and automatic optimization of correction for the whole area of focusing from infinity to the closeups limit (floating element design). Even with wide open aperture, the optical resolution is exceptionally high. Detail structures up to 200 line pairs/Millimeter are possible.

Technical Data:

Number of lenses: 12

Image angle: 2w* width 68º, height 68º

Weight: ~ 1,490 gram (will differ according to the used mount)

Filter diameter: 86x1,00 Aperture range: F4 to F22

Zeiss Datasheet: [link removed by eBay]