Canon TS-E 24mm f/3.5L II

[neuroanatomist]

Seeing as there isn't yet a thread for this amazing lens, I thought I'd start one off with a few pics:


EOS 5D Mark II, TS-E 24mm f/3.5L II, 1/2 s, f/8, ISO 100, +12 shift


EOS 5D Mark II, TS-E 24mm f/3.5L II, 1/20 s, f/18, ISO 100, +12 shift


EOS 5D Mark II, TS-E 24mm f/3.5L II, 6 s, f/8, ISO 100, +6 shift

 

[kubelik]

neuro, thanks for sharing. looks like your shots from the China trip turned out well!

 

[ronderick]

Now I really regret the decision of doing away with my 5D2...

...and very tempted to "borrow" the TS-E 24mm II from the department's storage room. *lol*

PS: Neuro, have you tried using polarizing filter with the TS-E 24mm II?

 

[neuroanatomist]

Neuro, have you tried using polarizing filter with the TS-E 24mm II?

Yep. I have an 82mm B+W Käsemann CPL (Slim mount, becuase I also use it on the 16-35mm II) that does very well on the TS-E 24mm II.

 

[c-law]

Question: does the amount of tild or shift applied get recorded in the metadata or do you have to remember?

Chris

 

[neuroanatomist]

Question: does the amount of tild or shift applied get recorded in the metadata or do you have to remember?

No, it does not get recorded in the metadata - tilt, shift, and rotation are purely mechanical and the settings are not transmitted to the camera. You have to remember, or write it down. The only -E (= electronic) part of the lens is the aperture control. As a side note there, even that can be 'broken' when you use a TS-E lens with an extender - they are compatible (although the TS-E manual indicates that extenders cannot be used), but the aperture data are improperly recorded in the EXIF header.

 

[ronderick]

Neuro, have you tried using polarizing filter with the TS-E 24mm II?

Yep. I have an 82mm B+W Käsemann CPL (Slim mount, becuase I also use it on the 16-35mm II) that does very well on the TS-E 24mm II.

Thanks! I was a bit afraid there's going to be obvious vignetting with the 82mm filter.

This is one of those time where I wish there's special filter holders designed for the 17mm (something along the line of Lee's filter holder for the Nikkor 14-24). Having the option of using a filter really makes a difference...

 

[neuroanatomist]

Thanks! I was a bit afraid there's going to be obvious vignetting with the 82mm filter.

Not much risk of that - the image circle of the new TS-E lenses (17mm and 24mm II) is huge! The only reason the hood fot the 24mm II is so short is that when you apply a lot of shift, you get vignetting (but then, you get vignetting on the side of the shift even with no filter or hood mounted). At shifts up to ±8, there's no vignetting and no effect of adding a filter - even the CPL stacked on top of the MRC UV (F-Pro mount) is fine. Above ±8, you start to see some shading - but removing the filters doesn't help significantly, so it seems to be an optical 'feature' of the lens.

 

[87vr6]

One of mine

 

[Cannon Man]

Shot with 1D IV.

 

[willrobb]

very cool pics from everyone, great to see the variety of things you can do with this lens in straightening out the vertical lines and adding in more blur. Very very cool.

 

[P_R]

f7.1, 1/125, but I did not not the tilt degree.

 

[Jylkat]

Check these shots, where I attempted to use the Canon TS-E 24mm f/3.5 II lens to capture how big/small the Flagstaff meteor crater really is.

http://www.roadblogusa.com/flagstaff-meteor-crater/

 

[Jylkat]

And check out these beautiful old wrecks also captured with the TS-E 24mm f/3.5 II:

http://www.roadblogusa.com/the-ts-e-24mm-shines-again/

 

[Jylkat]

And finally this one also taken using my favorite lens...

 

[aldvan]

Neuro, very good shots, your ones in Beijing!
Let me say, by the way, that you don't need T&S to get parallel lines in the digital era!
To stay in Beijing, let me show you a Steven Holl architecture in Beijing. EF16-35L II at 35mm, PP LR 3.6. The point of shooting was extremely close, since the street was very narrow...

 

[Viggo]

Neuro, very good shots, your ones in Beijing!
Let me say, by the way, that you don't need T&S to get parallel lines in the digital era!
To stay in Beijing, let me show you a Steven Holl architecture in Beijing. EF16-35L II at 35mm, PP LR 3.6. The point of shooting was extremely close, since the street was very narrow...

What do you mean? Straighten the photo in post?

Then please show me a fullsize, non-cropped image with the same effect and same corner quality. and also, adjust DOF like you can with tiltshift, for example full DOF on a landscape image at f8. Also with rotated plane of focus. It's only possible with tiltshift.

 

[AprilForever]

And finally this one also taken using my favorite lens...

Nice! I really like this shot!

 

[photophreek]

Viggo wrote:

What do you mean? Straighten the photo in post?

The Crop Tool in LR 3.6 has "angle adjustment" to straighten angles/lines.

 

[neuroanatomist]

Let me say, by the way, that you don't need T&S to get parallel lines in the digital era!

True. DxO can correct keystoning, too. But you need to know ahead of time that you're going to need that, and frame loosely to allow for the cropping space needed for the corrections. Plus, you'll have soft corners, not as bad as a de-fish, but definitely soft.