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Canon TS-E 24mm f/3.5L II

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Canon TS-E 24mm f/3.5L II

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

Released to rave reviews, the Mark II version of Canon’s 24mm Tilt-Shift lens has several marked improvements over the previous version. The most dramatic change is the tilt and shift axes can be independently rotated between themselves and the camera body, rather than remaining at 90 degrees as the previous version (and all other tilt-shift lenses) required. There are also multiple aspherical and UD glass elements, curved aperture blades, ‘sub-wavelength’ coatings, and virtually everything in the lens-design book.

Roger’s Take: This lens is amazingly sharp, amazingly wide, has absolutely no chromatic abberation, and is exceedingly well built. The new Canon TS-Es are as good as anything available in the genre. 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 you’re 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.

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. 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:

Filter Size
82mm (nonrotating front element)
Aperture
f3.5-22
Length
3.5”
Diameter
4.2”
Weight
1.7 lb
Hood
EW-88B
Minimum Focusing Distance
7 inches
Maximum Magnification
.34x
Angle of view: (full frame)
84 degrees
Maximum Tilt
+/- 6.5 degrees
Maximum Shift
+/- 12 degrees
Zoom method
NA
Image Stabilization
NONE
Focusing System
Internal focusing, nonrotating, manual only, floating element
Aperture Blades
8 curved, octagonal
Groups/Elements
11/16
Low Dispersion Elements
3
Fluorite Elements
0
Aspherical Elements
1
Weather Resistant
Yes
Flare resistance
very mild ghosting, mild contrast loss

Links:

MTF Chart:

Thick lines: 10 lines/mm; thin lines: 30 lines/mm. The darker black lines represent the MTF characteristics at maximum aperture; the blue lines at f/8. The solid lines trace the radical S (sagittal) curve, while the broken lines trace the tangential M (meridional) curve.

If you are bored and don’t understand MTF charts, you can read about them HERE

Lens Diagram:

Pricing

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

Rental Period Price Day Rate
4 days $72.00 $18.00 per day
7 days $96.00 ~$13.72 per day
10 days $129.50 $12.95 per day
14 days $168.00 $12.00 per day
21 days $225.50 ~$10.74 per day
30 days $283.25 ~$9.45 per day
45 days $369.50 ~$8.22 per day
60 days $432.00 $7.20 per day
90 days $556.75 ~$6.19 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 +$9.00 $81.00 $20.25 per day
7 days +$12.00 $108.00 ~$15.43 per day
10 days +$16.25 $145.75 ~$14.58 per day
14 days +$21.00 $189.00 $13.50 per day
21 days +$28.25 $253.75 ~$12.09 per day
30 days +$35.50 $318.75 ~$10.63 per day
45 days +$46.25 $415.75 ~$9.24 per day
60 days +$54.00 $486.00 $8.10 per day
90 days +$69.50 $626.25 ~$6.96 per day

Shipping

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