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I get the feeling that they would prefer people to have their fun elsewhere!

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I think that 8 degrees of tilt is pushing the limits of the lens design, so it's
probably a good thing it tilts no further. The out-of-focus areas tend to show
a very un-round bokeh, stretched in the direction of the tilt, which can be rather
unpleasant sometimes.

Using this lens for selective focus is not that easy, handheld or otherwise. It
was very hard to tell exactly where the plane of focus was, and I didn't get it
quite right. As usual, I found it rather hard to focus manually with the 350D.

I had already been thinking about a shot with the lions in focus and someone in
front of them, so the lens was already set up and I already knew approximately
where the plane of focus would be. I was in the process of trying to position
myself correctly to get both lions properly focussed when the moment presented
itself for capture. Otherwise there's no way I could have set up this shot in
time to catch the scene. Tilt lenses aren't designed for spontaneous shooting!

An additional problem is that when the lens is tilted, if you recompose the shot
you also need to refocus because the plane of focus moves as the camera rotates.