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TS-E on the cheap? For architectural photography

Started Jul 2, 2013 | Questions thread
Steve Balcombe Forum Pro • Posts: 15,582
Re: What's £800 better about FF?

AmateurArchitectural wrote:

The 650D is pretty cheap online and people tend to praise its Live View, so effectively it would be my cheap temporary upgrade.

I can understand the case for getting a 650D, but not as a temporary solution. The problem is it forces you to choose the 17 mm TS-E, which (I assume) wouldn't be the lens you want when you have a full frame body.

I am never an advocate of buying EF lenses instead of EF-S "in case I upgrade to full frame one day", but this is different. The T/S lenses benefit greatly from being used on full frame and having one makes full frame more than just a vague future possibility.

But if on the other hand you've now made a decision to stay with crop bodies for the foreseeable future, then I would grab a 60D at the current bargain prices, if only for the better pentaprism viewfinder.

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