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Canon TS-E 17mm f/4L

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Canon TS-E 17mm f/4L

If you aren’t sure what this is, you don’t want it.

A very exciting lens, the 17mm TS-E is the widest tilt-shift lens made by anyone. It offers a huge 104 degree field of view without tilting, has a floating and rear element focusing system, and both aspherical and UD glass to help maintain minimal chromatic aberration.

It also has a completely new tilt and shift system that lets you tilt AND shift in any plane, even the same plane. The lens provides up to 12mm of shift and 6.5 degrees of tilt. A very exciting (and very expensive) piece of glass.

This lens has a very large, protruding front element and no lens hood—not as in we don’t have one, as in Canon doesn’t make one. This is not a lens you want to take into rough conditions unless you like buying $450 front elements.

Roger’s Take: Amazingly sharp, amazingly wide, absolutely no chromatic abberation, exceedingly well built. The new Canon TS-Es are as good as anything available in the genre. And you can tilt, shift, and change the planes of each relative to each other. If you have tilt-shift experience this lets you do remarkable things. If your tilt-shift challanged (this would be me) you can still do remarkable things. Once. Then you can spend the next two hours figuring out how you did that.

But to be honest, both the 24 f/3.5 and 17 f/4 TS-E lenses are so sharp I sometimes take them in place of another prime to shoot as regular lenses – they’re just that good. And then you can do the tilt-shifty thingamabob and get some really amazing depth of field, slam home a quick panorama, straighten up tall buildings, or just get a very cool effect.

Specs:

Length
4.2"
Filter
NA
Weight
1.3 lbs

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Pricing

LensRentals.com offers rentals of every length between 4 and 90 days. Some common selections are:

Rental Period Price Day Rate
4 days $72.75 ~$18.19 per day
7 days $97.00 ~$13.86 per day
10 days $131.00 $13.10 per day
14 days $169.75 ~$12.13 per day
21 days $228.00 ~$10.86 per day
30 days $286.25 ~$9.55 per day
45 days $373.50 ~$8.30 per day
60 days $436.50 ~$7.28 per day
90 days $562.50 $6.25 per day

The shopping cart will automatically update the quoted price as you adjust the length of your rental.

LensRentals also offers an optional damage waiver on this product, limiting your expense should it get damaged while in your possession.

Rental Period Waiver Price Total Price Day Rate
4 days +$9.75 $82.50 ~$20.63 per day
7 days +$13.00 $110.00 ~$15.72 per day
10 days +$17.50 $148.50 $14.85 per day
14 days +$22.75 $192.50 $13.75 per day
21 days +$30.50 $258.50 ~$12.31 per day
30 days +$38.25 $324.50 ~$10.82 per day
45 days +$50.00 $423.50 ~$9.42 per day
60 days +$58.50 $495.00 $8.25 per day
90 days +$75.50 $638.00 ~$7.09 per day

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