TSE lens query

[gofioamasado]

I don't think 24 & 45 mm TSE lenses make sense for digital, since there're a lot of software that can correct the perspective with just a bit of loss of IQ, and you can get a really superb lens like 24-70 2,8L with better IQ and the price of just one lens.
A very different stuff is the 90 TSE. I use this lens for portraits, with the tilt focusing feature, that make your work apart from the competition. I also use it for product catalog, no other lens can make it better but view cameras. And finally, I find this lens being a nice macro lens, as good as 100 mm macro, but with the tilt feature that allows you to compose your picture unaligned with the center of the subject.

[Stefan Stuart Fletcher]

I think you’ve raised some interesting points (which is a polite way of saying “I disagree” []). I own both the 45 TSE and the 24-70 and I find the TSE equal to the zoom at comparable focal lengths and apertures in IQ terms, with the added bonus of extra creative latitude. My 5D mkII demands serious glass if only because there are a lot of pixels to deal with (resolving power) and the copies of the 24 TSE I used just weren’t good enough. Maybe I was unlucky.
I’d rather not use PP to correct more than I have to, however good the software, because this is yet another step in the workflow which introduces additional variables. Remember the KISS approach?
I’ m not sure how you can compare maximum magnification values of the 100 macro (which I also own) against those of 90 TSE. As Bryan’s reviews show, MM values for the 90 are 0.29 (0.43 with a 12 mm extension tube), compared to 1.00 and 1.19 respectively with the 100 mm macro using the same body. Maximum magnification is not the only factor, of course, but it must rate pretty high in macros, surely? That said, it’s a lot of fun to shoot macro with a TSE. The 45 model works best for me because I own both a FF and crop sensor bodies.

[gofioamasado]

Hi Stefan,


thanks for your words, first of all, please excuse my poor english, I am in Spain. I beg your pardon, maybe I did say it the wrong way, I didn't want to mean that 24 & 45 are bad lenses in absolute terms, they surely are good, as Bryan’s reviews show, but in a position to make the best choice to buy, I simply find the 24-70 more suitable for different porpouses, with superb performance, and even after software perspective correction, I think the IQ is good enough for my 1Ds mk III, not the best desirable, but enough thinking 24-70 is also useful for many kinds of work.
Yes 90 TSE does not magnifies a lot, but I find it very good with extension tubes, maybe 100 macro has better IQ in larger magnification, but the flexibility to compose with tilt focus made me to take the decision to sell my 100 macro and get this one. Now I own a really superb lens for 3 different kind of work.
One more curious thing: I'm waiting for an Hasselblad lens to Canon EOS body adapter to arrive from Ebay, just to test how my 120 mm macro Planar performs in my 1DSIII. I'll show you the results.

[Stefan Stuart Fletcher]

Your English is fine. No problems. I look forward to seeing your Planar work.