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For many shots where you shift the TS-E 17 to improve or eliminate perspective distortion, the 11-24 set wide, and leveled or near leveled will get you a similar shot. It is so much wider, and leaves room to crop off part of the image, and get what would have been the shifted image. Better done with a high resolution camera, but still can be useful with a standard res camera. You also can finish off or improve on perspective distortion by using post processing. That will trim a bit off your image, but again, the 11-24 is so wide that you can afford to loose some.
I have not done city or building shots with my 11-24, but I sure like it very much for landscape, and also quite a lot for night shooting of starry skies and the Milky Way. I use a tracker at night to make up for the f/4 maximum aperture.
I have not gone ahead with the Wonderpana filter system for the 11-24, but probably will soon. It looks very well made, and gives full coverage. It also forms a bit of a hood, and give some protection to the front of the lens. I have need for solid ND for the 11-24, as well as a polarizer for water and foliage situations. Obviously a polarizer is not great for a lens that wide when you are shooting landscape that includes blue sky, but at times the main landscape benefits make fixing the sky in post a worthwhile effort.
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