Customer reviews from usa.canon.com
Canon - TS-E 24mm f/3.5L II Tilt-Shift Lens - Black
Average customer rating
4.7
(12 Reviews)
Rating breakdown 12 reviews
5 Stars
11
4 Stars
0
3 Stars
0
2 Stars
0
1 Star
1
92%of customers recommend this product.
(
11 out of
12)
Customer Reviews for Canon - TS-E 24mm f/3.5L II Tilt-Shift Lens - Black
Customer Rating
5
Excellent Lens
on January 12, 2010
Posted by: CanonFan
from CA
Being my first TS lens - the picture quality - sharpness, color reproduction and contrast is exceptional. I own several L lenses and this has definitely one of the most sharpest pictures!! Playing with the Tilt and Shift does take time getting used to but learning this lens is fun. Would definitely recommend this lens.
Pros: Superior build quality, Super-sharp images
Cons: manual focus only
I would recommend this to a friend!
Written by a customer while visiting usa.canon.com
Customer Rating
5
Fantastic, even for family pictures
on April 29, 2011
Posted by: Fabio Bosco
from Mineola, NY
I mainly take pictures of my kids and this is another tool I use on my arsenal. Going to do some bowling? Use the tilt capabilities to keep the whole lane in focus even at f/3.5. The combination of tilt and shift ca be used to produce some very unique pictures of the family. Colors and picture quality are fantastic! Highly recommended.
Pros: Superior build quality, Super-sharp images
I would recommend this to a friend!
Written by a customer while visiting usa.canon.com
Customer Rating
5
Fantastic lens
on October 23, 2011
Posted by: AaronD
from Kansas City
Rock solid, razor sharp, virtually no distortion or CA. But understand why you need one before you buy one. If you won't use a tripod then buy something else and be happier.
I would recommend this to a friend!
Written by a customer while visiting usa.canon.com
Customer Rating
1
24 and 17mm T/S aren't useful.
on July 17, 2010
Posted by: Frank
from Kansas City
The lens does two things that are practically unrelated, and both of which are borderline useless in the extreme wideangle.
Firstly, the shift mechanism allows perspective correction. This was a critical part of photography in the days of large format, and I used this lens to get the same benefit on film when I started out with Canon. However, if you are working digitally, it is far easier and cheaper to correct perspective while editing.
Second, It allows tilting of the plane of focus, which allows near/far compositions to simultaneously be in focus when simply stopping down doesn't do enough (or isn't desired for other reasons such as stopping subject motion, etc.) However, these extreme wide angles, with small apertures even wide-open, have extreme DOF already and it'd be a rare photograph that needed more DOF than a normal lens could accomplish at 24mm (or even more so, 17mm). On the other hand this ability would be very attractive at 45-90mm. (A related trick is to tilt focus in the opposite direction of your composition to minimize DOF. But again at 17 and 24mm, I'm sorry but nothing gets very defocused anyway.)
As far as other details of the lens go: the construction is the very best Canon makes, comperable to the 70-200Ls or better. The image quality unfortunately suffers as you shift off-center, as the lens resolution falls off as with every lens. (There is also extreme cos^4 vignetting, though that can be fixed in your editing software.)
Pros: fantastic build quality
Cons: leave perspective correction to editing software, wideangles have too much dof to need tilt, resolution becomes quite poor when shifted
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
Written by a customer while visiting usa.canon.com