Quote Originally Posted by NFLD Stephen
I'm hoping that the 10-22 would show less distortion in the range. I'd also really like to try out a tilt shift lens, but I'm not sure my wife has the patience to wait with me on the side of the street trying to compose a shot with a TS lens while on vacation!

Much less. Photozone.de measures the barrel distortion of the 15-85mm at 15mm as 3.15%, while barrel distortion with the 10-22mm at 10mm is only 1.21%. At 14mm, the 10-22mm has essentially no distortion.


With a TS-E lens, composing and focusing a shot with tilt applied is more difficult, but for architectural corrections using shift it's quite possible to shoot handheld and 'on the fly' using LiveView. The shot below was taken from the middle ofTiananmen Square, handheld with about +8 shift:



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EOS 5D Mark II, TS-E 24mm f/3.5<span style="color: #ff0000;"]L II, 1/1250 s, f/4, ISO 100


The whole thing took about a minute, with almost all of that time spent swinging around my Lowepro Flipside 400AW and changing from the 24-105mm to the TS-E, then back to the 24-105mm after the shot.