Cinstance wrote:
I shot this with my 90 TS-E handhold af f5.6. I wanted to get the whole road in focus, but do not have a tripod with me. I always feel the perspective of a 90mm lens is closest to what my eyes see, so I choose the 90-TSE instead of a wideangle for this shot. By tilting and using fairly large aperture, I was able to get a shot that was almost what exactly in my mind.
Great to get the whole road in focus. The only thing that seems off to me is the selective focus of the trees.
ironically, the 24 TS-E is the whole reason why i went full frame last spring.
Why was that Erik?
Also, if you put a 2x TC on a, let's ay, 24mm TS-E does tha tmean you end up with a 48mm lens with all the TS functions, or do other whacky things happen?
I bought the 24 TS-E but have not yet ad a chance to really play and get used to it. One other question that comes to mind is the shooting of a stitch set, I'm assuming that a circular polarizer is virtually useless if you do that as it would mess up the exposure values
flatdraft wrote:
ironically, the 24 TS-E is the whole reason why i went full frame last spring.
Isca wrote:
Why was that Erik?
in the spring of '05 i was asked to shoot architecture for a client. at the time i had a 20D and knew that the 24 TS-E was the lens to have but was up against the 20D's 1.6x crop factor, lack of interchangable screens, and dim viewfinder. so, i bit the bullet and bought a 1Ds. the ironic part is that i have since owned and sold two 24 TS-Es and currently don't own one. if i get back into architecture then i'll buy another. until then i am concentrating on honing my product photography skills.
Isca wrote:
Also, if you put a 2x TC on a, let's ay, 24mm TS-E does tha tmean you end up with a 48mm lens with all the TS functions, or do other whacky things happen?
i've used the 24 TS-E with the 1.4x and the results were great on my copy when stopped down to f/11~16. the 2x might be ok but you'd be much better off with the 45 TS-E. i used to use my 45 TS-E with a 1.4x all the time and finally wised up and bought the 90.
nothing whacky happens with teleconverters outside of slight degradation in image sharpness and the addition of slight barrel distortion. the 90 seems to work the best of the three with converters. i'll probably pick up a 2xII soon just to see what happens. a 180/4 TS-E could be useful for close-up work on small stuff. a 25mm tube might put it over 1:1 magnification.
I just sold a 24TS-E. I had many reasons for doing so, primarily to fund a total switchover to new plates, tripods, and heads. I will buy one again someday cause I always do. I have owned 3 over the years and it was THE lens that switched me from Nikon to Canon back in the 80's
As I just told someone else about the panorama potential for the 24:
"Its really about resolution more than coverage. With a shift lens, you get 2/3 more pixels than the same coverage with a same width-coverage lens. So with a 24TSE shifted to both sides and spliced in PS, my file is 50+ MB, but with say a 18mm lens that covers the same width, I will only have 24-30MB for the same crop.
Also, theoretically, a 24mm prime should be less distortion and sharper than an 18mm. But thats not really true because some Zeiss glass at 18 is way sharper and better at the corners than the 24TSE".
Hereare two of the tests I did: http://www.eprepservices.com/24tse/Landscape1.jpg http://www.eprepservices.com/24tse/closeup24vs45.jpg
I need to buy a TC soon anyways so I should probably try the TS-E empirically
Thsi thread has really shown how people seem ot love the TS-E's, I bought mine off akivisuals and Andy, it si great, still learning how to use it properly and haven't had the chance to get out and really play but the Christmas break and some of the parks near the cottage will change that. it strikes me it's like three lenses in one, and maybe that's the attraction of it. I sold my 24/1.4 becuase I really couldn't justify two 24L's
I have a very good copy of the 24mm TSE.. It is a little soft shifted all the way but not as bad as i thought. So overall I think the image quality is reasonable for a wide angle. The best PC lens i have ever used is the CZ 35mmPC. The mamiya 50mm shift is also very good.. No tilt on these
