Canon TS-E 24mm f/3.5L II Ultra Wide Tilt-Shift Lens for Canon Digital SLR Cameras
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Manufacturer: CanonModel: TS-E24
Product features:
- Tilt and shift lens compatible with all Canon EOS cameras; ultra wide 24mm focal length
- High-precision lens elements for low distortion and high resolution; +/- 8.5 degrees Tilt and +/-12mm Shift
- Aspherical and UD lens elements minimize chromatic aberration
- Sub-wavelength structure and super-spectra coatings minimize ghosting and flare
- Circular aperture for creative, blurred highlights
- Canon 82mm UV HAZE Filter
- Canon Lens Hood EW-88B
- Canon 67 Filter PL-C B
- Canon 52 Filter PL-C B
- Canon Lens Cap E-82 for Canon TS-E 24mm F3.5L II
Digital Cameras Photo Reviews of Canon TS-E 24mm f/3.5L II Ultra Wide Tilt-Shift Lens for Canon Digital SLR Cameras
Customer Review: Amazing results; requires patience
Summary: 5 Stars
This is an amazing piece of engineering. You need patience to use it properly. It's great for landscapes, cityscapes and architecture, including interior shots. You can hand hold it but it will be easier to use of you have a monopod or tripod. It's a manual focus lens, so you need a Canon DSLR that has live view and the ability to magnify the image on the LCD screen I tend to turn on live view, magnify the image, focus the lens, and then turn off live view and frame the shot with the viewfinder, talking care not to move the focus ring.
You can (1) shift the whole lens up on its mount to accurately straighten the converging lines you get when pointing a wide angle lens up; (2) keep both the foreground and distance background in focus by tilting the font of the lens down or up slightly; (3) create a panorama on a full-frame DSLR equal to the width of a 15 mm lens by taking a shot with the lens shifted to the right on its mount, taking a second shot with the lens shifted to the left, and merging them in software; and (4) shift the lens left (or right) to get a photo of a reflective surface (like a mirror) that looks like it's taken head on, but is taken from the side, thereby avoiding having your own reflection in the frame.
The lens mount rotates so you can use both tilt or shift in landscape mode or portrait mode. You can combine shift and tilt, and you can rotate the lens to set both functions at various non-standard angles to adapt to all sorts of situations, like keeping converging lines straight when you're looking down or up at an odd angle. You can fix distortion and out-of-focus problems or get creative by introducing distortion and out-of-focus areas.
With all of this, the lens has excellent optical characteristics, as noted in other reviews and on dpreview.com. Its mechanical construction is excellent, although the locking mechanisms that keep the tilt and shift angles in place are not made for fast use by large fingers.
There's a learning curve, but you can shorten it by reading the manual that comes with the lens and by looking on line for tutorials and for tables that tell you how much to tilt the lens to keep the foreground in focus. (Only 1 to 1.5 degrees is enough when you're at eye level.) Patience will reward you with shots you can't get with any lens on a normal fixed mount.
Description of Canon TS-E 24mm f/3.5L II Ultra Wide Tilt-Shift Lens for Canon Digital SLR Cameras
A superb refinement to a true Canon classic, the new TS-E 24mm f/3.5L II offers enhanced functionality and image quality in its most popular tilt-shift focal length. Designed with UD glass to minimize and compensate for chromatic aberrations and specially coated aspherical elements for the highest possible glare-free image quality, this tilt-shift lens features an angle of view of 74 degrees. New TS revolving lets users freely combine tilting and shifting within the range of +/- 90 degrees in the direction of movement. It has an enhanced range of movement of up to +/- 8.5 degrees, a revolving construction for both portrait and landscape shooting modes, locking, ergonomically designed and easily operated tilt and shift knobs, uses a circular aperture for beautiful out-of-focus areas, and is constructed using only lead-free glass and has an SWC lens coating that controls ghosting and flare to a far greater degree than earlier coating technologies.Lenses
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