Nice combination: Sony A7R2 and Canon TS-E 17mm/Fotodiox Pro Fusion Adapter

1Dx4me wrote:

very interesting shot. i have both canon TSE 17mm/24mm lenses but i haven't spent enough time to master using them! i like to use my TSE lenses in the city shooting tall buildings. i believe in order to learn usage of TSE lenses, would be to take them out in the field and learn hands on! keep up the good work good luck.

I fumbled around with mine for a long time.  Then I had an epiphany and discovered a counterintuitive method.  It became easy, or at least as easy as it's going to get, instantly.

The visualization of the shot has to be a completely separate action from positioning the camera to take the shot.   You have to visualize the shot entirely in you head, or look at the possibilities through the lens, as with a normal lens.

Then you have to level the camera and frame the horizontal axis (assuming you want to shift vertically) then frame the vertical axis using the shift knob.

On the 6D (and I think any DSLR) the shifted lens freaked out the exposure program, so I had to either meter the shot unshifted, but pointed in the final direction or shoot, chimp, then hit EC, then repeat until it was right, sometimes four stops.  Once I read that the R would meter the shot properly with the lens shifted, it clinched the deal for me.  It has cut my shooting time by as much as half and at least a third.

It's a bit of extra work, and the positioning of the lens to shoot interrupts the creative process with tedium.  On a long shoot, I often feel like swapping it for a "normal" premium UWA zoom.  Then I look at the pictures, and the feeling goes away.