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just wanted to share some images from today with you.
I have been at Limburg chruch (Germany) to 'testdrive' my TS-E 17.

Here are some results - just enjoy (comments are very welcome)



stitched from two vertical images



single frame



stitched from three horizontal images

reposition in PS CS4 - no optical correction - I love using shift lenses

No manipulation on distortion!! My copy seems to be almost free from any distortion .

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isn’t it funny, a ship that leaks from the top

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I am the classic “Windows by Day, Mac by Night user'
 
Looks like too much fun!

The sweeping perspective looks great. I need to get out and try out my new 24 TSE II as well.
Mike K
 
gurbally said:
Wow. Great shots. I must get this lens now.
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thank

well - I pre ordered it the day it was announced - after 1 h hard thinking how to convince my spouse that I just threw some extra bucks after my one week earlier purchased 5D II

btw - here's a 100 % crop of the 42 MP 3 images stitch (top left corner)



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isn’t it funny, a ship that leaks from the top

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I am the classic “Windows by Day, Mac by Night user'
 
Thanks for sharing.

I just bought my first TS-E yesterday (the 90mm for 630€ on ebay, thought it was a good price). I'm also thinking about buying a wide angle TS-E. Unfortunately I'm running out of money (christmas period, thinking about buying a 500L or 1DmkIV, etc) so I'm thinking about buying on ebay the 24LTS-E V.1. what do you personnaly think about that? This lens is just for having fun. I can live with CA and a bit of softness wide open. Do you own other TS-E lenses besides the 17mm?

Thanks for your help, and again, thanks for sharing.
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Cheers,
Ed
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can_ka_no_rey said:
Thanks for sharing.

I just bought my first TS-E yesterday (the 90mm for 630€ on ebay, thought it was a good price). I'm also thinking about buying a wide angle TS-E. Unfortunately I'm running out of money (christmas period, thinking about buying a 500L or 1DmkIV, etc) so I'm thinking about buying on ebay the 24LTS-E V.1. what do you personnaly think about that? This lens is just for having fun. I can live with CA and a bit of softness wide open. Do you own other TS-E lenses besides the 17mm?

Thanks for your help, and again, thanks for sharing.
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Cheers,
Ed
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http://www.ebphoto.be
http://ebphoto.over-blog.com

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yes - I won another TS-E lens it is the TS-E 90 you just purchased - 630 EUR over ebay is a real bargain if it is in good condition. It may be well one the sharpest lenses at 85 to 105 mm available today - I just love this lens - no distortion at all (better then my TS-E 17 - as one would expect)

I have no personal experiences with the TS-E 24 (I) but you can get an impression how good it is compare to the TS-E 17 here:

f/8.0 (just slide over the test charts to see the TS-E 24 (I) in direct comparisson:

http://www.the-digital-picture.com/Reviews/ISO-12233-Sample-Crops.aspx?Lens=487&Camera=453&Sample=0&FLI=0&API=3&LensComp=347&CameraComp=453&SampleComp=0&FLIComp=0&APIComp=3

I'd guess you can live with that - impressing though is the TS-E 17 incl. 1.4 x Canon converter compared with the old TS-E 24:

http://www.the-digital-picture.com/Reviews/ISO-12233-Sample-Crops.aspx?Lens=487&Camera=453&Sample=0&FLIComp=0&APIComp=3&LensComp=347&CameraComp=453&SampleComp=0&FLI=1&API=3

The TS-E is IMHO worth every penny (if you can and like to afford it)

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isn’t it funny, a ship that leaks from the top

ISO 9000 definition of quality: 'Degree to which a set of inherent characteristic fulfills requirements'
I am the classic “Windows by Day, Mac by Night user'
 
Nice shots but really really slow, and I have 8Mb dowload. I tried compressing the first picture which is 1.3MB to 400KB without any visible difference. Just a thought, if you are really interested in having people look at your pictures before they get bored with waiting and give up...

The other images refuse to load, or they only get half way and then stop.

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Michael
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Michael G2 said:
Nice shots but really really slow, and I have 8Mb dowload. I tried compressing the first picture which is 1.3MB to 400KB without any visible difference. Just a thought, if you are really interested in having people look at your pictures before they get bored with waiting and give up...

The other images refuse to load, or they only get half way and then stop.
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Hi Michael and best wishes to Sweden,

sorry to hear that even such small pictures like 1,3 MB can cause problems in your area.

Thanks for reporting your troubles with the file size - I will keep an eye on that and upload a small and a normal version of my images. Yet I do not sense any problems via different locations here in Germany - my provider is normally quite fast and with my DSL line I get the images within a second each - I may be spoilt with high bandwidth though.

All load flawlessly -

I can send you the direct links - this may help?

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isn’t it funny, a ship that leaks from the top

ISO 9000 definition of quality: 'Degree to which a set of inherent characteristic fulfills
requirements'
I am the classic “Windows by Day, Mac by Night user'
 
can_ka_no_rey said:
Thanks for your reply Joger...

Don't hesitate to post other pics taken with your TS-E's. It makes me hold on until I get mine :)

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Cheers,
Ed
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you wish is my command !!

more and significantly smaller images ;-)







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isn’t it funny, a ship that leaks from the top

ISO 9000 definition of quality: 'Degree to which a set of inherent characteristic fulfills requirements'
I am the classic “Windows by Day, Mac by Night user'
 
These are very good, congratulations on your new lens. I have teh 24 and love it for landscapes but have not tried interiors with it.

I am amazed at the first two, I would need to lay flat on my back to even see that view without a camera, then it would take me a few minutes to get back up. I have no idea how one gets their eye behind the viewfinder at that angle.
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When you can't focus, nothing else matters
Once you can, everything else does.

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Ben
 
Hi Joachim,

I can see the direct links on the images, and if I reload the page about 10 times the next image completes, but if I go to your main page http://www.jo-1.de I can't enter, with either IE or Firefox.

If I use the direct links to the images it's the same thing as via dpreview, they load half way and then freeze.

Usually this kind of problem is related to what kind of GIX (gateway exchange) bandwidth agreements the ISP has. So they may have a good access to all the german ISPs, but probably somewhere the connection to sweden is not very good.

If I reload the image 6 times it finally completes, but then it was 2.8 MB. Personally I never upload anything over 250KB.

Nice shots by the way. I would love to have that lens.
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Michael
http://www.pbase.com/kingfisher
 
The eye ball bulging out! I bought the 17TSE about 3 weeks ago. The weather have been bad - rain, rain, ... I tried it during a slight sunny weekend. Though very careful, I still touch the lens twice with my hand. And I am doing handheld, put on the lens cap every time finishing shoot a picture.

Any experience / suggestion on protecting the lens front, besides be careful and put on the lens cap between shoots? A great lens no doubt!

-Steve
joger said:
just wanted to share some images from today with you.
I have been at Limburg chruch (Germany) to 'testdrive' my TS-E 17.

Here are some results - just enjoy (comments are very welcome)

reposition in PS CS4 - no optical correction - I love using shift lenses

No manipulation on distortion!! My copy seems to be almost free from any distortion .

--

isn’t it funny, a ship that leaks from the top

ISO 9000 definition of quality: 'Degree to which a set of inherent characteristic fulfills requirements'
I am the classic “Windows by Day, Mac by Night user'
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Steven-T said:
Any experience / suggestion on protecting the lens front, besides be careful and put on the lens cap between shoots? A great lens no doubt!

-Steve
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no - but if anything happens to the bulbous front element it will be taken care of :-)

Honestly it the front element will be 'missing in action'Canon will get a repair order - the optical advantages seem to be so huge that the tradeoff can only be worse image quality and this is something nobody really would like to trade against.

I am happy as can be and what I am most enthusiastic about is the fact that the lens is really easy to use. Straight forward design - much better mechanically then my TS-E 90!!

Thanks for the comments !!!

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isn’t it funny, a ship that leaks from the top

ISO 9000 definition of quality: 'Degree to which a set of inherent characteristic fulfills
requirements'
I am the classic “Windows by Day, Mac by Night user'
 
I'm with you, though I guess it'd be difficult to imagine a better place to NOT get back up. :)

There are the 90 degree finders or I guess a mirror could be set up on the floor so the viewer could be seen, albeit reversed.

Fabulous work, OP!
 
Ben_Egbert said:
These are very good, congratulations on your new lens. I have teh 24 and love it for landscapes but have not tried interiors with it.

I am amazed at the first two, I would need to lay flat on my back to even see that view without a camera, then it would take me a few minutes to get back up. I have no idea how one gets their eye behind the viewfinder at that angle.
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It's easy with an angle finder. I never leave home without one.

It is irritating that angle finder C so expensive, though. Years ago, I found a used angle finder B, but managed to lose it, so had to bit the bullet on the C price.

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David J. Littleboy
Tokyo, Japan
 
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