Canon TS-E 90mm f/2.8 Tilt-Shift Lens

Canon TS-E 90mm f/2.8 Tilt-Shift Lens

Canon rightfully boasts that the TS-E 90mm f/2.8 Tilt-Shift Lens is the world’s first 35mm-format telephoto lens with tilt and shift movements. With a Canon TS-E lens, you can control the angle of the plane of focus and the picture’s perspective. The effects of large-format camera movements can be obtained with TS-E lenses for EOS cameras. Although manual focusing is required, automatic aperture control enables autoexposure and autoexposure bracketing.

Tilt/Shift
The tilt and shift axes intersect at a 90° angle. They can be made parallel at an authorized Canon Service Facility (modified at owner’s expense). Telephoto perspective, f/2.8 speed, and full tilt and shift movements in a compact, professional package. Impressively sharp, its ability to alter the plane of focus can provide a "look" that previously required a view camera to achieve. Pros have found it a great option for portraits, products and even fashion work. At its closest focus distance (1.6 ft/0.5m), it gives magnifications of about 1/3 life-size. Gaussian optics give high-quality delineation and true background blur. The lens is suited for a variety of subjects, from products to portraits.

Tilt–shift photography and lenses are described as the use of camera movements on small and medium format cameras and the use of tilt for selective focus. "Tilt–shift" is a combination of two different types of movements. The first movement is tilt, which is the rotation of the lens plane relative to the image plane. The second movement is shift, which is the movement of the lens parallel to the image plane. Tilt-shift lenses can be used for both still photography and video filming and are great for use in shooting miniature scenes.