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Canon 17-40mm L vs 16-35mm L for Real Estate Photography

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ed rader Veteran Member • Posts: 9,068
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Re: Canon 17-40mm L vs 16-35mm L for Real Estate Photography

The way to move up would be buying tilt-shift lenses. Those are fabulous for real estate.

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dmbibeault Regular Member • Posts: 249
Re: Canon 17-40mm L vs 16-35mm L for Real Estate Photography

Just curious, how long does it take to shoot a house with the 17TS or any other TS Sense?

Most agents and owners want you in and out as fast as you are able.

at $125.00/hr shooting 10 rooms and outside would take some time, yes?

I agree the 17TS  would get you Architectural Digest look, but Agents I work with are not interested in me hanging around for hours....  Just sayin!

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gipper51 Veteran Member • Posts: 5,904
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dmbibeault wrote:

Just curious, how long does it take to shoot a house with the 17TS or any other TS Sense?

Most agents and owners want you in and out as fast as you are able.

at $125.00/hr shooting 10 rooms and outside would take some time, yes?

I agree the 17TS would get you Architectural Digest look, but Agents I work with are not interested in me hanging around for hours.... Just sayin!

TS lenses don't really take any longer than an ultra wide angle zoom to setup and use.  You can leave it shifted between shots.  Shift adjustments take a few seconds.  You still have to compose and level the camera before you shoot.  In my opinion, they don't slow you down.

With a 17 TS, you could shot every interior shot with it and just crop later. RE work doesn't need the high resolution, so even cropping from 30 to 10MP you'll still be fine.

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Re: Canon 17-40mm L vs 16-35mm L for Real Estate Photography
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HeyItsJoel wrote:

MjMart85 wrote:

Happy New Year everybody! First of all, I currently own a 17-40 mm and find that it is pretty good, and the price point was awesome when I bought it. I am shooting more and more real estate and a few people have told me to move up to the 16-35mm.. Am I really gaining that much more with that lens? I shoot with a Canon 5d Mark III. Any info you can provide would be greatly appreciated!

-Matt

Noticeable difference between 16mm vs 17mm. Especially indoors.

That extra mm can easily be abused.

Greg OH Regular Member • Posts: 456
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gipper51 wrote:

TS lenses don't really take any longer than an ultra wide angle zoom to setup and use.

They're manual focus.

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gipper51 Veteran Member • Posts: 5,904
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Greg OH wrote:

gipper51 wrote:

TS lenses don't really take any longer than an ultra wide angle zoom to setup and use.

They're manual focus.

Which most are doing anyway for for RE work.  Most shots you can leave the camera at a hyperfocal distance and f8.  Everything will be in focus.

If you're walking around snapping hand-held pics, they yeah, a TS-E lens will be slower.  But for a typical shooter on a tripod, who is taking time to carefully compose, level the camera, etc., the extra step of adding shift takes about 3 seconds.

Not saying TS-E lenses are as simple as an AF zoom, but there seems to be some myth that they take a long time to setup and use.  I can add desired shift and focus a shot in about 10 seconds.

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Steve Balcombe Forum Pro • Posts: 15,582
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gipper51 wrote:

Greg OH wrote:

gipper51 wrote:

TS lenses don't really take any longer than an ultra wide angle zoom to setup and use.

They're manual focus.

Which most are doing anyway for for RE work. Most shots you can leave the camera at a hyperfocal distance and f8. Everything will be in focus.

If you're walking around snapping hand-held pics, they yeah, a TS-E lens will be slower. But for a typical shooter on a tripod, who is taking time to carefully compose, level the camera, etc., the extra step of adding shift takes about 3 seconds.

Not saying TS-E lenses are as simple as an AF zoom, but there seems to be some myth that they take a long time to setup and use. I can add desired shift and focus a shot in about 10 seconds.

I think an important point to make here is that you're not using tilt, which can be fiddly to get right, you're just using shift which is easy. I've no experience doing real estate photography with a T/S lens but I can see how it wouldn't be difficult.

Thomas Guenther Senior Member • Posts: 1,511
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gipper51 wrote:

Greg OH wrote:

gipper51 wrote:

TS lenses don't really take any longer than an ultra wide angle zoom to setup and use.

They're manual focus.

Which most are doing anyway for for RE work. Most shots you can leave the camera at a hyperfocal distance and f8. Everything will be in focus.

If you're walking around snapping hand-held pics, they yeah, a TS-E lens will be slower. But for a typical shooter on a tripod, who is taking time to carefully compose, level the camera, etc., the extra step of adding shift takes about 3 seconds.

Not saying TS-E lenses are as simple as an AF zoom, but there seems to be some myth that they take a long time to setup and use. I can add desired shift and focus a shot in about 10 seconds.

And having it mounted on a small monopod/tripod, everything can be adjusted once. Having found the perfect perspective through tilting from a definite height of view, it i just an orthogonal 360° turning of the camera system. >>>>> Better results than doing shots with any other non-correction lens, because you "only" have take care of the composition and releasing the shutter.

And the old TSE 17mm from Canon is nowadays a real bargain at the range of the 16-35:

And yes: Your shots will be better in any way over your competitors!

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