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TS-E on the cheap? For architectural photography

Started Jul 2, 2013 | Questions thread
Howard S Senior Member • Posts: 2,212
Re: TS-E on the cheap? For architectural photography

joger wrote:

AmateurArchitectural wrote:

. . . 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?

Cameras really don't matter that much any more since a couple of years!

It's the lenses that make the difference!

Go for the TS-E 17 or 24 II and get a new camera when your old one stops to work properly.

I own the TS-E 17 and it is a fabulous lens - just amazingly good and easily outperforming any other wide angle lens on the market - you can't go wrong with it.

Camera bodies are widely overrated in terms of importance to the image quality. That said certain conditions require different feature sets - but for the sujets a TS-E 17 is built for a 400D will do just fine. The story is different for action and sports though.

But focus via the viewfinder, especially on some crop bodies, is not as easy as using liveview especially in tilt mode as you know

As long as you can stay at low ISO values you might not see a significant difference even to the latest camera releases from Canon

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