I have been looking into this lens for doing macro work after seeing a lot of stunning images on this site. In reading Ravi's article about this lens ( https://www.fredmiranda.com/TS-E90/ ) I did get a bit confused about one feature of this lens. Near the end of the article, Ravi shows shifting the lens to make stitched images in both horizontal and vertical. Never having had one of these in my hands, how is that possible? From images I could see on the web, it looked like major surgery to rotate the shift or tilt axes. I thought these were more or less fixed. So, is there something that allows one to rotate the lens relative to the camera body to use the tilt and shift on the axis you want?
The TS-E lenses rotate on the camera. It is not a well publicized feature, but there are stops on the lens to rotate it. Now the tilt and shift are perpendicular from the factory, but you can take the lens to a Canon service center and have it switched so they are in parallel.
I just got the 45 TS-E, and the tilt and shift are perpendicular. Can someone explain the benefit of switching them so they are in parallel? What kinds of shots will this allow you to take? Sorry for the newbie question.
Cliff, you may already know this but the Digital Outback Photo website has an article about how you can do the switch without taking it in to a Canon service center. It looks like it would take five minutes, but you need the right screwdriver.
WIth Canon T/S, just turn the lens bellow to rotate the lens (no tools needed). It supports tilting & shifting diagonally as is. You only need to re-configure the lens (with tools) if you want the lens to shift & tilt at the same direction.
It is a usage trade-off (parallel & perpendicular). One way parallel can benifit is that the shift function can be used to compensate the view changes after lens tilt. This removes the need to re-adjust views with the tripod head(and fine tune focus that comes with it).
Tommy Lee wrote:
WIth Canon T/S, just turn the lens bellow to rotate the lens (no tools needed). It supports tilting & shifting diagonally as is. You only need to re-configure the lens (with tools) if you want the lens to shift & tilt at the same direction.
Thanks for all the responses. The ability to rotate the tilt and shift axes relative to the camera body is a very nice feature. I did not realize that was possible.
As to orienting the tilt and shift axes. I have seen discussions on this. I will likely play with it the way it comes from the factory first, and then try orienting them on the same axis.
Thanks for all the responses. The ability to rotate the tilt and shift axes relative to the camera body is a very nice feature. I did not realize that was possible.
As to orienting the tilt and shift axes. I have seen discussions on this. I will likely play with it the way it comes from the factory first, and then try orienting them on the same axis.
Here is an article on the use of the Canon TS with lots of examples. Also the second half of the article has a tutorial on how to change the T/S axes relative to one another. Its quite simple. http://www.outbackphoto.com/workflow/wf_42/essay.html
Mike K
