You can't mimic infinite focus unless you start out that way and if you're going to try to use focus-bracketed shots with PS to get close, you still need a tripod for your bracketed shots. It is laughable that the work around is to hand hold a standard lens and use software. It is true that you need a tripod when using TILT. Some suggest that you can't hand hold this lens so you might as well shoot with a standard lens and use software.
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It is worth noting that this infinite focus effect is NOT something you can easily achieve in software (although PS does have a function requiring multiple bracketed-focus images that attempts to do so). If you can achieve the same thing using tilt at f/8, you will end up with a significantly sharper image because of the diffraction that occurs at f/16 and beyond. What's more, if you are able to achieve seamless foreground-to-background focus w/o tilt, you're probably doing it at f/16-22. Wide angle lenses are often used close up, and the closer you are to your subject, the more you will need to employ tilt to bring the background into focus - even at narrow apertures with a wide angle lens. Some will argue that you don't benefit from this with a 24mm (wide angle) lens because of its inherently deep depth-of-field. lessly sharp image from close up to infinity using the tilt feature.
My favorite feature of this lens is its ability to create a seam. My extensive experience with t/s lenses and my particular experience with this lens leaves me scratching my head at a few of the comments I've read about the use of tilt-shift lenses and this lens in particular. Canon engineers hit a home run with this lens. Awesome doesn't begin to describe the image quality you can get with it. I've used this lens, which replaced the marginal Mk I version I owned previously, for over a year.