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วันเสาร์ที่ 28 กรกฎาคม พ.ศ. 2555

Canon TS-E 24mm f/3.5L Tilt Shift Lens for Canon SLR Cameras for

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Compact, wide-angle lens which enables tilt and shift movements. The floating optical system, with an Aspherical lens element, corrects distortion and other aberrations. High image quality and compactness are the result. Great for architecture, landscapes and other wide-angle shots.

EF mount; tilt shift lens
Ultra-low Dispersion glass with Fluorite elements; aspherical lens
24mm focal length
f/3.5 maximum aperture
Manual focus only

Canon TS-E 24mm f/3.5L Tilt Shift Lens for Canon SLR Cameras Reviews

65 of 67 people found the following review helpful

Excellent Lens, more manual skills needed, June 21, 2007

MGMcd (Columbia, MD USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Canon TS-E 24mm f/3.5L Tilt Shift Lens for Canon SLR Cameras (Electronics)

I have had this lens for a few days. I ordered it since I was tired of stitching bad photos by hand, and finding everything out of alignment. I do mostly indoor and outdoor architecture, and nature scenes, so needed something with both a panoramic sweep, and to maintain parallelism in my subjects.

The lens allows 11 degrees of shift to either side of center, and it rotates, so shift is either left/right, or up/down. Out to 5 degrees of shift, I am finding the auto settings are not too perturbed. After 5 degrees, some manual setting skill is needed. I will develop more of those soon, I can tell. The lens also allows tilt capabilities, which produce a nice selective focus effect, not unlike a lensbaby. I don't use much of that, but may do some portrait work with it.

The build quality of this lens is rock solid. The optics are very nice. I got a Hoya UV filter, and there is not much light loss, although I think there is some peripheral CA.

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24 of 24 people found the following review helpful

Very cool specialty lens, May 30, 2008

Jan Klier (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews

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I had this lens for close to a year now, and have had many opportunities to use it. It's a great specialty lens if you frequently shoot what it is best at, and those type of shots are worth the money you spend on the lens.

There are two separate purposes for this lens: Shifting the field or shifting the plane of focus. The shifting the field applies to architectural and landscape photography. Tilting plane of focus is among other things an interesting and unique portrait style.

I've found that I use the shift 95% of the time on both architecture and landscape. I've found the tilt to be marginally usable on this lens, mostly because at 24mm this is not a great portrait lens - you would go for the 90mm version. The facial distortions at 24mm (particularly on full frame bodies) are just plain hideous and overpower any benefit gained from the tilted depth of field.

Any time you photograph a building this lens is exceptional in allowing you to retain the... Read more

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful

Mechanically fabulous, optically horrible, December 31, 2009

Abdulrahman Aljabri (Jeddah) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Canon TS-E 24mm f/3.5L Tilt Shift Lens for Canon SLR Cameras (Electronics)

I bought this lens hoping to upgrade my architectural photography method from shooting wide with the 17-40L and then applying perspective correction in photoshop and cropping. My reasoning for such upgrade was that shooting wide and applying correction wasted much needed resolution, added distortion, and made the scene look slightly different than my intended final scene.

Therefore I got this lens hoping to put an end to all of that and get the image to its final crop in camera. Sad to say, that didn't entirely happen. This lens has disappointed me on three very important aspects: soft corners, vignetting, and chromatic aberration.

SOFT CORNERS
By far that is the most disappointing aspect. Pictures are unacceptably soft in the corners and no I am NOT referring to corners of pictures captured with the lens shifted by 12mm or tilted 8 degrees. I am talking about 0 tilt and 0 shift. In such setting the 24ts-e compared terribly to the 17-40L. Pay attention to... Read more

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วันศุกร์ที่ 27 กรกฎาคม พ.ศ. 2555

Canon EF 24-85mm f/3.5-4.5 USM Standard Zoom Lens for Canon SLR Cameras for

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List Price : $520.00 Price :

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Compact, powerful and lightweight, the new Canon EF 24-85mm f/3.5-4.5 USM zoom lens gives you 3.5x magnification for a fraction of what you d expect to pay. Fully compatible with all EOS cameras, the EF 24-85mm f/3.5-4.5 USM is particularly useful as a standard zoom lens for the EOS IX Advanced Photo System SLR, providing enhanced wide-angle capability for the smaller APS format. Item Specifications: Product Description: Canon zoom lens - 24 mm - 85 mm Lens System: Zoom lens Mounting Type: Canon EF Lens Aperture: F/3.5-4.5 Focal Length: 24 mm - 85 mm Optical Zoom: 3.5 x Min Focus Range: 19.7 in Focus Adjustment: Automatic, manual Lens Construction: 12 group(s) / 15 element(s) Special Functions: Zoom Filter Size: 67 mm Length: 3 in Weight: 13.4 oz Localization: English

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The Canon EF 24-85mm f/3.5-4.5 USM lens has multiple moving lens groups that enhance image quality and make the whole system more compact and lightweight. This lens uses an ultrasonic focusing motor (USM) that gives you silent, high-speed autofocusing. Canon eliminated all the mechanical couplings in this lens and added a custom-designed autofocus motor as well as a microprocessor.

Built into the system is a replica aspherical lens element that minimizes optical distortions to give you sharp images. The flare-cutting diaphragm helps the lens produce a high-contrast image, even in tough lighting. Its high zoom ratio of 3.5x allows you to take tighter shots of your subjects. It's fully compatible with all EOS cameras.

EF mount; standard zoom lens
Internal focusing; full-time manual focus; aspherical lens
24-85mm focal length
f/3.5-4.5 maximum aperture
Micro UltraSonic Motor (USM)

Canon EF 24-85mm f/3.5-4.5 USM Standard Zoom Lens for Canon SLR Cameras Reviews

36 of 39 people found the following review helpful

A Fabulous Documentary Lens, July 11, 2001

Terrance M. Carroll (Oakland, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Canon EF 24-85mm f/3.5-4.5 USM Standard Zoom Lens for Canon SLR Cameras (Electronics)

I've had this lens for a few years now, and I absolutely love it. It is compact, sharp, and dependable. I'm a wide-angle shooter, so this one is just about perfect. Canon's USM is beautiful. Unlike Nikon, Canon seeks and achieves quiet, fast, and accurate auto focusing. Coupled with a light and quiet EOS camera body, and you've got an excellent documentary kit, great for shooting people in close and personal. At 24 mm, this lens gives excellent range for close work, with lots of depth and sharpness, making focusing and composing a cinch in evolving situations. My only gripe with this lens is its manual focus ring. I grew up with manual focus, and I love excercising that skill, but this lens has nothing more than an obligatory, plastic, and poorly placed focusing ring that discourages manual work. Fortunately, Canon's autofocusing system is phenomenal. Round-out your EOS kit with a Canon SpeedLite (compatible all the way down to 24 mm).

20 of 22 people found the following review helpful

middle-class lens, January 18, 2002

Sergiy Beketov "apollinaris" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Canon EF 24-85mm f/3.5-4.5 USM Standard Zoom Lens for Canon SLR Cameras (Electronics)

This lens is almost superb for its price! It's a middle-class lens, what appears in the following:

- it has bigger light-factor (3.5-4.0 vs 4.0-5.6 in the low-class lenses). This gives you more possibilities, for instance to use faster shutter speeds or to decrease the depth-of-fild for special effects)

- the first (outer) lens doesn't spin what gives you an opportunity to use square filters; using a poliriser becomes as easy as any other filter.

- the USM (Ultra Sonic Motor) gives you a really super speed of focusing and completely silent engine. You'll catch the fastest actions and nothing will distrub your object!

These are the most important and useful features of the lens. I should also admit, that the focal distance of this lens is almost ideal for everyday photography, because gives you an opportunity to shoot from landscapes (~24-50mm) to portraiture (~50-85mm) with an equal simplicity and quality.

25 of 30 people found the following review helpful

quite good for the money, November 21, 2005

Jonathan Payne (Atherton, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Canon EF 24-85mm f/3.5-4.5 USM Standard Zoom Lens for Canon SLR Cameras (Electronics)

This lens is very cheap as lenses go. I didn't realize it when I bought my Canon EOS 10D a couple years ago. I have had one complaint with this lens since I got it: not very sharp. Not having a lot of SLR experience I wasn't sure if the problem was the lens or the digital camera. Or was it the alorithms in the camera for convering the image to JPG? After all, sharpness is just one of the parameters you can set in the camera. So what I ended up doing was bumping the sharpness in the camera all the way up to get the kind of sharpness in the image I was looking for.

What I am talking about is, say, the edges around your subject's face are not sharp, or your daughter's freckles aren't quite crisp enough, etc.

So I tried a friend's L series Canon lens and got exactly what I was looking for: crisp, sharp, more like my eyes saw the image as I was taking the picture. So, in short, a really good lens that takes really sharp pictures costs a lot of money, 3 or 4 times what... Read more

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Canon EF 28-300mm f/3.5-5.6L IS USM Lens for $2,585.49

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List Price : $4,300.00 Price : $2,585.49

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Lens Construction (group) 16 Lens Construction (element) 22 No. of Diaphragm Blades 8 Minimum Aperture 22-38 (1/3-stop increments is F22-40) Closest Focusing Distance 0.7m Diagonal Angle Of View 75 degrees - 8 degrees 15' Filter Diameter 77mm Maximum Diameter x Length 92mm x 184mm Weight 3.7lb/1,670g The Zoom Lens EF28-300mm f/3.5-5.6L IS USM replaces the EF35-350mm f/3.5-5.6L USM released in 1993. The new lens offers an extended zoom range at the wide-angle end and incorporates an Image Stabilizer (IS), which compensates for approximately three shutter speeds, allowing the handheld capture of shots that would otherwise be blurred by camera shake. The EF28-300mm f/3.5-5.6L IS USM delivers high-contrast, high-resolution images for which Canon's L-series is renowned. A combination of advanced optical technologies, including UD (ultra-low dispersion) and aspherical lenses, work in concert to achieve a high zoom ratio of approximately 11x while effectively correcting for a variety of aberrations that can occur when zooming. Featuring a new optical design, the lens makes possible a minimum focusing distance of just 0.7 meters throughout the entire zoom range. Other features include a circular diaphragm for improved background blur, and a hardy waterand dust-resistant construction, ensuring professional users unfailing performance under even the most grueling of conditions. And, in consideration of the environment, the model uses only lead-free glass elements.

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Canon raises the stakes for professional photography with its EF 28-300mm USM ultra-high magnification zoom lens with image stabilization. This handy, compact zoom lens offers versatility, easy subject selection, and the highest optical performance in its class. The 11x zoom range covering everything from wide-angle to telephoto, and you can focus in on subjects as close as 2.3 feet. A powerful ring-type USM drive provides silent. Featuring a dust- and moisture-proof "white lens," it is designed to appeal to professional EOS photographers looking to reduce lens changes and the number of lenses they need to carry.

Image Stabilization
The lens incorporates Canon's Image Stabilization (IS) technology, compensating for approximately three stops without any perceptible increase in image blur when shooting static subjects or panning. This increases the range of circumstances in which hand-held photography is possible, limiting the need to carry a tripod.

Fast Auto-Focus
The inner focusing ring-type ultrasonic motor (USM) converts ultrasonic vibrational energy into rotational force to deliver high-speed, high-precision, super efficient and virtually noiseless auto focusing, with good holding torque for rapid response, accurate stopping. Full-time manual override without damage to the autofocus mechanism is featured. Minimum focusing distance is just 0.7m throughout the entire zoom range.

Ready for Digital Photography
The lens shape and coatings have been optimized to suppress ghosting and flaring, making this lens ideal for use with digital cameras that are more susceptible to reflections off the recording media than are film cameras.

Precision Optics
This lens features 22 elements in 16 groups for low distortion, high corner-to-corner resolution throughout the entire zoom range. As with all EF lenses, aperture is controlled with an EMD (electromagnetic diaphragm) for fast, quiet, highly precise control and incorporates a circular aperture diaphragm for beautifully pleasing background blur, from full aperture to two stops down.

The use of 3 Ultra-low Dispersion (UD) glass elements effectively curtails the residual chromatic aberrations that can plague lesser quality long lenses, while aspherical elements correct various kinds of aberration that occur during zooming to give the lens the unsurpassed clarity and resolving power that are the hallmark of professional L-series lenses.

Environmental protection
The EF 28-300mm f/3.5-5.6L IS USM features a rugged dust-proof and drip-proof construction, designed for professional photographers working in harsh environments under a wide range of operating temperatures and humidities.

Handy, compact zoom lens for versatile and easy subject selection while travelling
Incorporates Canon's Image Stabilization (IS) technology
Powerful ring-type USM drive provides silent, high-speed autofocusing
Optimized to suppress ghosting and flaring, ideal for use with digital cameras
Rugged dust-proof and drip-proof construction, designed for professional photographers working in harsh environments

Canon EF 28-300mm f/3.5-5.6L IS USM Lens Reviews

374 of 376 people found the following review helpful

Nice piece of glass., December 14, 2005

Boris Kandov (Somewhere In Time) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Canon EF 28-300mm f/3.5-5.6L IS USM Lens (Camera)

I was salivating for this lens for four months and finally bought one a few weeks ago from the Amazon. I was very excited and couldn't wait to put this glass on my 20D.
First impression I got was that this lens is not that heavy as 3.7 pounds may seem, but boy I was wrong about that. It feels solidly built and looks not that huge on the body. So there we go... After filling up my 1GB CF with shots (taken outside, inside with external flash and without, with different f-stops and all range of zooms) and closely examining the results I decided to write this review with which I did not try to downplay the qualities of this piece of art, just to share my humble opinion.

Pros:
All in one solution (well may be except super wide)
Under most light conditions the lens performs as expected which is very good
Great zoom range that converts to 45-460mm on APS-C bodies
Nice color saturation and contrast, gorgeous bokeh
Push pull zoom (for some may not)... Read more

81 of 81 people found the following review helpful

Optimal event photography lens, June 18, 2008

David "dave jones" (TRACY, US, Canada) - See all my reviews

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I shoot mostly family events and softball games, specifically candids, so this lens is ideal for me.

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[1] Soft at 28mm wide open. (major)
My biggest complaint is it's consistently soft at 28mm and f/3.5. Too soft for my taste. The shots look "dreamy". I often forget to zoom out a little or drop the aperture when shooting wide angle and end up disappointed in the results. I've seen it on the 20D, 5D2, and 7D so it's not the camera. It's a bummer because the wide angle is often what I want on a crop factor camera.

[2] Weight. (major)
Your arm will probably hurt after shooting for a few hours, especially with its push/pull it gets long so your arm is extended holding all that weight. There hasn't been a person yet I let try the lens that didn't immediately say "wow, that's heavy". I read that in the reviews and thought "na, I can handle it". Nope. I must admit I had to take breaks. It's painful to shoot video with extended arms as... Read more

111 of 120 people found the following review helpful

Fast, clear, heavy performer, April 25, 2005

Jason Tu "Dog Photo Man" (Silicone Valley,CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Canon EF 28-300mm f/3.5-5.6L IS USM Lens (Camera)

I bought this lens for my EOS 20D. Before this lens, I was using EOS 28-135mm lens. After the upgrade, I found that 28-300mm lens give me almost distortion free image even at 300mm range. When I used 28-135mm lens, the distortion on the image is very visible when I am at 135mm range. Even at the wide angle range, I noticed that 28-300mm lens gives me much sharper image while 28-135mm lens gives me much softer image. The focus is very fast for 28-300mm L lens. On the down side, this 28-300mm lens is really heavy. Holding it will really wear you out. The auto/manual focus switch is arranged in a very awkard position. It is very easy to change your auto foucs setting to manual setting. The lens also will be pulled all the way down due to its weight when you carry it around. I have to carry it with my hand and not make it extend itself all the way down. If picture quality is what you are after, go for this lens. I am very pleased with the sharpness and the fast focusing.

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