I'm trying to get a setup that will allow me to use shift up for shooting buildings and architecture - zero interest in tilt.
Am aiming for around 28-35mm focal length on my sony a7r4.
While it looks cool - the reviews and tests I've seen posted on the original FD 35mm tilt shift don't look that great - with the distortion actually being a bigger red flag for me than the mush corners at full shift.
Is it possible to use the 24mm TS-E 2nd version with a 1.4 teleconverter and the sigma mc-11 adapter? and still have the shift capability?
I have the 24TSE II, 1.4x III and MC-11. I have not tested that combination but am not seeing any reason that it won't work physically. The rear of the Canon TCs does not protrude, only the front does.
It's a damn shame that nobody makes tilt-shift lenses in 35mm. I always like that FL and have an old CZ 35 (from before the 24 TSe II), but the IQ is not up to par on high MP sensors. The 1.4x III on the 24 TSE II has a degree of degradation, but you avoid the far shifts where the lens IQ is noticeably reduced.
Thanks. I actually tried the combination this morning and found that all my shots with the MC-11 and the 1.4x were quite soft, unacceptable to my eye. It's possible I had a bad copy but I don't think so. The shots with just the 24 TSE II and the Sigma MC-11 were perfectly sharp.
I used to use the 1.4x and the 2.0x with the TSE Lenses (24II, 50 and the old 90) all the time when I was using the Canon 5DSR. But with the Sony A7RIVA the results with teleconverters are quite soft. I use the TSE lenses without the converters for great results with the Sony.
Irving wrote:
I'm trying to get a setup that will allow me to use shift up for shooting buildings and architecture - zero interest in tilt.
Am aiming for around 28-35mm focal length on my sony a7r4.
While it looks cool - the reviews and tests I've seen posted on the original FD 35mm tilt shift don't look that great - with the distortion actually being a bigger red flag for me than the mush corners at full shift.
Is it possible to use the 24mm TS-E 2nd version with a 1.4 teleconverter and the sigma mc-11 adapter? and still have the shift capability?
Greetings Irving,
Since you have no interest in tilt, have you considered using a medium format to Sony E shift adapter? Mamiya, Pentax, Contax, and Hasselblad all made 35mm 645 lenses that would give you a good amount of shift. It would take a little bit of research as to which system to use, but I think you could get better IQ than the proposed approach.
guidostow wrote:
I used to use the 1.4x and the 2.0x with the TSE Lenses (24II, 50 and the old 90) all the time when I was using the Canon 5DSR. But with the Sony A7RIVA the results with teleconverters are quite soft. I use the TSE lenses without the converters for great results with the Sony.
It is interesting, but why would IQ be so much different, something about the sensor cover/filters? 50MP vs. 60MP shouldn't account for it.
EB-1 wrote:
I have the 24TSE II, 1.4x III and MC-11. I have not tested that combination but am not seeing any reason that it won't work physically. The rear of the Canon TCs does not protrude, only the front does.
It's a damn shame that nobody makes tilt-shift lenses in 35mm. I always like that FL and have an old CZ 35 (from before the 24 TSe II), but the IQ is not up to par on high MP sensors. The 1.4x III on the 24 TSE II has a degree of degradation, but you avoid the far shifts where the lens IQ is noticeably reduced.
Yes. It was a long time ago and it has some kind of mechanical adapter to EF. Unfortunately that adapter (daisy or some kind of flower name) would short out one camera, though another of the same model was fine. IQ when shifted was lacking after the transition from 21MP to 50MP in 2015 so I never bothered to use it after that. I bought the lens used, so am not sure it was the best copy but was good for a few years in the early 2010s. The colors were weird, too, maybe something about CZ and the cameras used.
The 24TSE II works well on both Sony (Sigma adapter) and Canon (Canon adapter). That's the only T/S I have left.
Unfortunately T/S lenses seem to be going away as consumers are fine with images shifted in software and focus stacking solves the tilt DOF issue. It's not really the same though.
