p.4 #4 · Your favorite 24 TSE I or II shots, please?
I did a test vr image in html5 for a client using my 24mm TS-E not too long ago. its at the link below - it is kind of large
so it might take a while to load, but still... you move the viewpoint around by doing the "click and drag"
thing...
I hadn't used this lens in quite a while, and had forgotten that it was actually pretty good on a crop camera... if you look hard you can see a flare, but being back lit like this is kind of challenging for
most lenses, so...
p.4 #5 · Your favorite 24 TSE I or II shots, please?
misternikko -- You are correct, at least for my use. I almost never use tilt, as I have vertical and horizontal elements -- tilt will focus one plane, but not the other, causing OOF areas in the image. Tilt is very specialized and everything must be on the same focal plane (except for special effects).
If I had different subject matter, I would use the tilt -- works great.
This original 24 TS-E had best sharpness around f/8 (f/6.7 - f/10), so most subjects could be captured in detail without tilting. The new lens is less affected by diffraction (or inherently sharper) and can go to f/13 to provide overall sharp DOF.
I used slight shift in both those two I posted.
And with the large image circle, best IQ is always found in the center, superior in that regard to most other full frame lenses.
For me the lens is useful for its shifting and sharpness.
p.4 #8 · Your favorite 24 TSE I or II shots, please?
misternikko wrote:
these are different than i expected. i thought people bought TS lenses to tilt them...alot of these are used as a regular 24mm....why?
While some may be using as standard 24mm.
What I think you are missing is many of these are large stitched composites. Check out the post above of the drive in theater and you'll see what I mean.
p.4 #9 · Your favorite 24 TSE I or II shots, please?
misternikko wrote:
these are different than i expected. i thought people bought TS lenses to tilt them...alot of these are used as a regular 24mm....why?
How are you judging them to conclude that?
A shifted lens takes a picture much like a non-shifted one that's been cropped. If all the verticals are vertical that means the camera is vertical but doesn't tell you if the lens was shifted or not.
It's damn fine 24 so people use it as a T/S lens and a "normal" 24 depending on the subject matter. Only a couple use the "toy model" tilt effect, just for fun. (Is that what you were expecting more of?) Others have posted some with "toes to mountains" in focus by using tilt the way it was intended originally.
p.4 #10 · Your favorite 24 TSE I or II shots, please?
And in the last image I posted, I tilted the lens UP about a degree or so to get both face and feet in focus. A lot of times you can't tell and shouldn't be able to tell exactly what you did with the lens. Regardless of how you use it, it's a lens that inspires confidence.
p.4 #15 · Your favorite 24 TSE I or II shots, please?
misternikko wrote:
these are different than i expected. i thought people bought TS lenses to tilt them...alot of these are used as a regular 24mm....why?
Who says they aren't tilted? Unless you're into the whole miniature craze, if done well, you won't be able to tell.
Mine were "at least" shifted, which is something that a normal 24 can't do.
p.4 #17 · Your favorite 24 TSE I or II shots, please?
misternikko wrote:
these are different than i expected. i thought people bought TS lenses to tilt them...alot of these are used as a regular 24mm....why?
I use tilt an lot, and a lot of it, often close to max amount close to the focal plane (the flat rock in the first example).
See my examples near the end of Page 1 this thread.
Also when getting down low I often use some modest shift to minimize perspective distortion in addition to the tilt above.
Mike K
