Discuss the Canon TS-E 24mm f/3.5 L II Tilt-Shift Lens Review - Tell us what you think of the Canon TS-E 24mm f/3.5 L II Tilt-Shift Lens.
this lens looks incredible, wish i could afford it, so sharp! love the panorama of the house
Want one!
Wow! That lens is incredible. Totally beats the original TS-E 24 in terms of optical performance!
Looks awesome, too
TS lens are just so weird and fun, and like most I wish I could afford one just to play around with it. But after spending all my hard earned cash on a 70-200 2.8 IS, I'm poor for a bit ;)
Bryan Carnathan: Discuss the Canon TS-E 24mm f/3.5 L II Tilt-Shift Lens Review - Tell us what you think of the Canon TS-E 24mm f/3.5 L II Tilt-Shift Lens.
Bryan, you have an awesome review. I like yours better than the DPR's one (http://www.dpreview.com/lensreviews/canon_24_3p5_tse_c10/) since yours has CA/IQ/flare comparison between I/II and other WA's. Once I receive my order, I hope I can find some useful info to share.
Meanwhile, for those who like to know more about tilt/swing in practice:
http://www.usa.canon.com/uploadedimages/FCK/Image/2009/Tilt%20Shift%20Whats%20New/Canon%20TiltShift%20Concepts.pdf
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/videos/tilt-shift.shtml
http://www.northlight-images.co.uk/article_pages/using_tilt.html
Very practical information on tilt/swing in general.
David
I'm working on a deal to do work for a LARGE architectural firm, so maybe.
Is just me or this lens is MUCH sharper than the others in comparison?
Bryan,
Well done. Love the bee. After seeing your IQ comparison it looks like the MSRP is well justified.
I looked twice and the only omission I could find would be distortion reporting. When looking at a wide prime for architectural use distortion is very important. Excuse me if I missed something about it in your report.
We had a thread discussion about taking photos of models, dioramas and props. This, obviously, would be a suberb lens for that application. Unfortunately, the OP's on a very tight budget.
Does anyone know what or which TS-E lens Vincent Laforet uses for his unusal landscapes/surfscape? i.e. Turns life size airport into a diorama.
I've been eyeing TS-E lenses for around 9 months now. I just did a night shot of a house for a local builder with the optimistic hope of doing more work for him. I'll have to see how things work out before I take the plunge and invest in a TS-E.
both the new ts-e are sharp been using it for about 2 months now, to make things miniture.
ts-e17mm 1st pic and ts-e24mm L II 2nd pic.
Ahhhh [drool], I’ve been eying and anticipating the arrival of this lens for sometime. I think it will be either number 2 or 3 on my list of next purchases – just got the 300mm f2.8L IS USM this week, so I’m going to have to wait a few months for the bank account to recover. Hopefully by then this lens will be in stock for more than just a few hours. However, the next purchase will most likely have to be the new (to be released) 1D. It’s debatable whether to pick up this lens or the 5D Mark II after that. I’m thinking that this lens really haulers to be on a full frame camera.
Great review (as usual). I felt like I was all cool with my shiny LNIB 24-105L until I read this :)
The size of the image circle covered by the new TS-E lenses is very interesting...it probably explains why the lenses are so sharp corner-to-corner, even in comparison to Canon's other excellent 24mm lenses. When a 24mm TS-E II is used on a full-frame camera with no tilt or shift, you're getting a similar sweet-spot advantage to the one that crop users normally get when using full-frame lenses...better edge sharpness and less vignetting. It's the same reason why certain ... types of people ... use adapted medium-format lenses on their 5Ds...a lens that is a slightly-above-average performer on a 645 camera is likely to be excellent when you're only using the middle of the lens.
Wow, I didn't think Canon could make a 24mm prime this sharp.
Have been renting this one from LensRentals for a month now, and I'm VERY impressed with it. Haven't tilted much yet, but been shifting all over the place. And as someone who's transitioned from model photography to architecture in the last few years, I can now hardly wait to save up and buy my own.
One issue to consider adding to the review - the knobs can get in the way and rotation can be impeded by built-in flash on the consumer and prosumer cameras. That same conflict creates some problems when wishing to shift in portrait orientation as well - the shift knob gets right under the flash assembly. The 5D's (or models higher up) without their flash would probably be the ideal bodies for use of this lens.
I am, incidentally, finding handheld shifting to be quite practical. Not ideal, perhaps, but completely feasible for simply adding correction or exaggeration to any shot with parallel lines in it. And since focus to infinity is reached quite quickly, one doesn't have to futz with the manual focus very much.
Btw, the most stunning information from the review for me was the 8.3" MFD. I'm amazed to learn that, and glad I have a few more days before I have to return the copy I've been renting. LensRentals has been fantastic to me and for me, btw.
Finally, as my own nutshell impression of this lens, I'll repeat what I told a friend the other day. He asked if I was going to buy my own, and I said, "Well, it's interesting. It adds a lot more variables to every shot, and thus it can seem a lot more complicated to juggle them. But I can't imagine shooting architecture without one EVER AGAIN."
TSE24 II is available in stock in Norman Camera (Canon's authorized dealer)!!! Act quick before it's gone in second!
http://www.normancamera.com/product-exec/product_id/20046/nm/Canon_TS_E_24mm_F3_5L_II_Tilt_Shift_Lens