On 10 October 2025, the third-party lens maker TTArtisan unveiled a highly anticipated addition to its lineup: a full-frame 17 mm f/4 Tilt-Shift ASPH lens — bringing tilt/shift control to mirrorless platforms.
This lens targets photographers working in architecture, landscapes, interiors, cityscapes, and creative wide-angle work, where perspective control and precise depth-of-field manipulation matter.

Key Specifications & Features

• Focal Length & Coverage: 17 mm, full-frame format, with a very wide-angle field of view (~104°) — great for capturing expansive scenes.
• Tilt & Shift: ±8° tilt and ±8 mm shift — allowing you to control the plane of focus for creative depth-of-field effects (“miniature effect”) or extend sharpness across a scene. Shift helps maintain straight verticals when photographing tall buildings, avoiding converging lines without tilting the camera.
• Rotation Mechanism: The lens supports 360° rotation (with 15° click-stops), letting you reorient tilt/shift adjustments quickly between horizontal and vertical composition.
• Optical Design: The glass is built from 17 elements in 11 groups, including large-diameter aspherical elements — designed to deliver sharpness, minimize aberrations and distortion, and maintain clarity and detail across the ultra-wide frame.
• Diaphragm & Focus: A 10-blade aperture diaphragm, manual focus (no AF), and a minimum focusing distance of 0.30 m, giving some flexibility for foreground interest and close-environment compositions.
• Build & Construction: Fully metal lens body, with a clicked aperture ring and sturdy, pro-grade feel. The lens comes with a dedicated lens hood.
• Image Circle: The lens projects a large image circle (≈ 64 mm), enough to cover full-frame sensors and — notably — even larger medium-format sensors (e.g. GFX). This makes the lens versatile across a range of cameras.

According to official info, the 17 mm f/4 Tilt-Shift is initially available for Sony E and Fujifilm GFX mounts, while versions for Nikon Z, Canon RF, and L-Mount are planned soon.

Ideal Uses & Creative Potential

This lens is aimed at photographers who want precision control of geometry and focus plane:

• Architectural and real-estate photography — shift lets you keep vertical lines straight while capturing tall buildings or room interiors, without needing extreme perspective corrections in post.
• Landscape and cityscape work — the ultra-wide field of view combined with tilt/shift control gives creative freedom: sweeping vistas, dramatic foreground-to-background sharpness, or selective focus effects.
• Creative photography & fine art — tilt enables selective focus or “miniature-effect” shots, rearranging depth-of-field in ways impossible with standard lenses.
• Medium-format shooting — thanks to the large image circle, shooters on GFX (or other large-sensor systems) get ultra-wide tilt-shift capability, rare at this price point.
• Interior and real-estate interiors — ideal for capturing wide rooms with minimal distortion, maintaining straight lines and natural perspective.