Two stitched horizontal shots from the 17 TS-E at maximum shift. If you are looking for a detail rich environment you could not do better than this interior. No sharpening was applied.

Here is a 100% crop with some sharpening applied

Goodness....wow!

Hard to argue with those results.

so both 17 and 24 TS-Es look excellent.

Wow!

Hey Doug,

How come every time you start a post on the 17ts-e the only responses you get are "wow".
OK - here's another one - WOW!!!

It's handling that ceiling quite nicely. Medium format - move over. The cost of Architectural photography just came down.

Thanks for posting these - now if Canon could only begin supplying this lens in the US. That could be another wow!!!.

Thanks very much for your Wow's. I am pretty excited by all this meaning that we can get results like this without resorting to medium format and all that entails.
This shot makes me think of my old Hasselblad SWC body and lens. It would not be this wide of course but produced results much like this I believe, meaning distortion free and universal sharpness.
I would love to have a medium format with a comparable lens focal length do this shot just for the sake of comparison.
They are suggesting that the 24 TS-E will even be better but I think this is already good enough.

One more time from me : WOW

Beautiful work Doug. Shockingly good quality from the lens as well.

Stunning!

And my comment was not to degrade the MF system - Mamiya / Hasselblad, a digital back and a Hartblei will compete and then some - but at a cost!

I had completely researched and was ready to purchase a digital MF system right before the economic downturn - a lot of the Architectural industry has slowed and marketing budgets cut - (for me) to invest in that format at the time seemed to be a high risk. In the interim the 35mm format has introduced affordable 21MP and two killer TS-E's. WOW!

Another one from me as well, Doug. I've got to ask, was this a single exposure? I know it's two stitched shots but it almost looks to be HDR-ish. Nothing wrong if it is, just a question

These were just single exposures.

Dear lord you're killing me. Architecture shooting is my passion, and the 17 TS-E is my dream lens. I've got the 24 TS-E I, and while it's a good lens, the 17 looks to be an ultimate lens. I've actually contemplated, on several occasions, selling half my kit for this lens. I could come pretty close if I sold my 17-40L, Zeiss 85 Sonnar, Sigma 150 macro and 24 TS-E. The thing that's preventing me doing it is I'd have to give up my 17-40L for it, and while the TS-E would be fine in place of that for architectural shooting, I use my 17-40 for other things too, and I can't afford to lose that extra capability.

Damn thats fine Doug !! Where is it incidentally ??

It's great to have dreams and something to look forward to.

GEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!! Incredible!

This is the Basilica Notre-Dame cathedral in Montreal. Every year just before Christmas there is a marvelous concert held here and every time I sit and listen to the concert and look at the surroundings hoping to photograph it some time.

Wow indeed...

There is no way you took this picture with a TS-E17mm and stiched it together!!! I demand that you hand over that lens and your talent to me!!!! This is a citizens arrest!!!

AMAZING PHOTO!!!!

Thank you Doug

My wallet is hiding from me somewhere, quaking in fear.

Tremendous photo.

WOW!

Yes Doug, this is indeed spectacular and here is another big WOW