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leuphrates
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Registered: Oct 18, 2004
Location: Turkey
Posts: 9
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Review Date: Dec 1, 2004
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: $1,080.00
| Rating: 10
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You feel the force!
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You still need to be a jedi to wield it!
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1D Mark2 has a small sensor for it! You need ff. You need a digital slr full-frame. On film I loose 50% of shots either by under-over exposing or not being able to compose correctly. It is DIFFICULT TO USE. But if you can, you rule.
I used it wide open for night photos with 30 secs of exposures and more, tilted and shifted. I think it is a great performer. Yes, at f8 it is much sharper, but which wide isn't? At f3.5 it is still a good performer. I made a lot of casual low-light snapshots with pleasing quality. (I also have 35f1.4 and I know what low-light quality is!)
Tilt&shift makes you see the world differently and understand what perspective does to your photos. And how it enhances the feeling of a photo. I usually walk with this lens and observe the changing perspective around me. (I used it on XL1 via the adaptor to record this as video, but you loose the sight since it crops even more than the entry-level DSLR's.)
Not only for architecture and landscape only but for all types of photography, this lens is a king with its unique abilities on the wide side. But this does not ensure you will like it. Not everyone of us is a jedi in the galaxies. (I am for example, not yet.)
Being a manual focus lens add to the charming charisma of this marvellous instrument. It is not user-friendly, it is not cheap, it is not light, but it definitely deserves a 5/5. Even for the feeling of owning it.
It is a delicate weapon of a more civilised time...
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 Dec 1, 2004
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MarkSaperstein
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Registered: Sep 23, 2003
Location: United States
Posts: 1361
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Review Date: Jun 2, 2004
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: $900.00
| Rating: 8
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Pros:
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Creative possibilities with the tilt and shift movements.
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Need to stop down to f/8 for best resolution.
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Jack Flesher's review below is on target. If the performance wide open were just a bit better I would give this lens a 5/5. I wish I could think of ways to use it more often! If you have a small viewfinder (like the 10D), the Angle Finder C will help with manual focus.
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Jun 2, 2004
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smackie
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Registered: Nov 19, 2002
Location: United States
Posts: 320
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Review Date: Jun 8, 2003
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: Not Indicated
| Rating: 10
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Range of movements for DoF control. Solid build. Smooth focus adjustment.
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Bit bulky. Requires careful metering at full shifts. Prone to flare.
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This is one of my favorite lenses for "close-in" landscape work. The perspective control available allows for shots that would normally take a 4x5 to achieve. The lens appears to be sharp wide open, with only minimal dropoff in the corners. There's some CA at full movements but only when shooting full-frame.
Without movements, this is a fine 24mm lens for general landscape work. The manual focus control is smooth and precise and it has a full DoF scale. I've had some trouble with flare on bright days (the hood isn't amazingly useful) but it's manageable.
If I'm shooting landscapes, it's in my bag.
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Jun 8, 2003
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braindeadmac
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Registered: Apr 29, 2003
Location: United States
Posts: 2089
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Review Date: May 1, 2003
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: $950.00
| Rating: 10
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Great range of movements, very good to excellent image quality, even at f3.5-4.
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Bulky and heavy, camera ships with shift and tilt movements perpendicular & requires trip to service to make them parallel. A bit on the expensive side.
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This lens is one of the main reasons I switched to Canon after 25 years of Nikon use. The only real problem with the lens is that the tilt and shift axes are "fixed" and not easily moved, thus you are considerably more restricted in the range of movements available. However, for most landscape photography the range of movements are more than adequate. The lens is also a bit bulky, but that's to be expected given it's combination of capabilities and rock solid build. The first thing to do after buying this lens is to send it back to Canon service so that they will make the tilt and shift movements parallel.
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May 1, 2003
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gatom
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Registered: Mar 7, 2003
Location: United States
Posts: 1792
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Review Date: Apr 2, 2003
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: $870.00
| Rating: 10
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Pros:
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DOF control, perspectiv control
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None
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Love this lens, for architecture or lenscape. Manual focus is so smooth and easy, Lens is very solid build. I only wish it would be around 16 - 18mm. Highly recomending.
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Apr 2, 2003
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Review Date: Apr 2, 2003
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: Not Indicated
| Rating: 10
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Pros:
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DOF control and wide angle perspective
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none
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Never figured this lens would become my main product shooting lens but it has -- clients love the "funky" perspective along with everything razor sharp. I most often use it at the minimum focus distance with exceptional results. This is the only lens I own that paid for itself ten time over in the first month. I can't live without it. Razor sharp results with excellent contrast and color saturation.
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Apr 2, 2003
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Jack Flesher
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Registered: Oct 23, 2002
Location: United States
Posts: 3489
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Review Date: Apr 1, 2003
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: $600.00
| Rating: 8
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Pros:
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Tilt and Shift :)
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Exhibits slight CA in the corners when shifted on my 1Ds (full-frame). Manual focus only.
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I like this lens for its ability to correct perspectives and increase DOF -- In this vein, it gives the DSLR user some abilities usually left to users of Large Format systems. The lens is perhaps slightly less sharp than my 24/1.4, but its TS abilities more than compensate for this slight loss in resolution. To further clarify, the corners are visbly soft until about f4.5, with the sweet-spot being f8 where everything appears crisp. There is also some CA visible at thee corners and this is exacerbated by shift as the edge of your image goes even further off center. HOWEVER, you can use this to slight advantage at times depending on where your main subject is located, since this will IMPROVE the imaging charachteristic at the opposite edge of the frame since it is now closer to the center of the field. Also, I find these slight corner anomolies go undetected in the typical sweeping landscape shot, where the bennefit of the added DOF from a slight tilt is clearly noted.
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Apr 1, 2003
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John MacLean
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Registered: Jan 11, 2002
Location: United States
Posts: 414
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Review Date: Mar 29, 2003
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: Not Indicated
| Rating: 8
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Pros:
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perspective control
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not wide enough
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I do a lot of interiors and I find myself backed up against a wall either with my 14 or 16-35 @ 16, and I rarely could shoot 24mm and get what I need in the frame. I wish it was at least 18mm for this reason.
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Mar 29, 2003
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