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TS-E on the cheap? For architectural photography

Started Jul 2, 2013 | Questions thread
Mike K Veteran Member • Posts: 5,525
Re: TS-E on the cheap? For architectural photography
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My question is, is it too bad a waste of a beautiful lens (17mm TS-E) to put it on a 7-year-old EOS400D?

- Will I be able to focus through the 400D’s little view-finder?

- Is the image quality in camera too low to be worth it?

I own both the 17 TSE and 24 TSE II and use them quite a lot Vs other lenses.

I shot for several years using a older version of the TSE24 on a Canon 1DII. Despite the large viewfinder, I found it very difficult getting optimum tilt and shift adjustments using the viewfinder only. Tilt in particular was difficult, whereas sometime shift (perspective adjustments) could be done in the viewfinder by paying attention to larger items like trees, building columns, etc. With the Live View you can zoom into 5X or 10X, and with a higher resolution LCD , greatly facilitates Tilt and Shift lens movement adjustments.

So my advice for T/S use is get a camera with a good Live View implementation and a good LCD. The 400D has a 2.5" LCD with only 230,000 dots, a very first generation Live View that simply doesn't have the resolution to do critical lens movements. All of the current Canon dSLRs Including Rebels) have a 3" LCD (Some swivel and are touch sensitive) with about 1.1m dot resolution. Big difference.

Mike K

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