TTArtisan 17mm f4 Tilt Shift Review: The Toughest Lens I’ve Used

I'm currently writing this review the weekend after the 4th of July here in America -- and I'm ultimately struggling to write this review. Why? It's not at all because of festivities; in fact, I've pretty much gone full straight edge. Instead, it's for the same reason that it took me so long to write this review in the first place. I got this lens in May and I'm writing the review in June. And it's ultimately because the TTArtisan 17mm f4 Tilt Shift lens is one of the most complex and annoying tilt-shift lenses that I've ever used. Perhaps this is justified as it's also by far the most affordable. The company made a great lens and then took away some of the best parts of the tactile pleasures of a tilt-shift lens.