booleansplit.com » wide angle http://www.booleansplit.com photos, tips, tricks, and thoughts from an avid amateur photographer Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:24:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Canon TS-E 17mm f/4L http://www.booleansplit.com/?p=373 http://www.booleansplit.com/?p=373#comments Fri, 20 Feb 2009 02:48:41 +0000 Robert http://www.booleansplit.com/?p=373 canon-ts-e-17mm

Tilt/shift photography (the real kind, not the kind you fake with a computer) can be quite fascinating and is a key component of high quality architectual photography. I have often wondered why Canon’s tilt/shift lenses didn’t come in wider focal lengths than 24mm. Tuesday, Canon announced the TS-E 17mm f/4L lens. This lens promises to make high quality wide angle tilt/shift photography available to APS-C sensor cameras (27.2mm equiv) while allowing full frame and 35mm film users to explore a whole new world of creative possibilities. If it is anything like Canon’s other TS-E lenses I’m sure (to the right people) it will be worth every penny of the $2,500 Canon is asking for it. Scheduled to ship in May.

]]> http://www.booleansplit.com/?feed=rss2&p=373 0 Nikon 13mm f/5.6 lens review http://www.booleansplit.com/?p=224 http://www.booleansplit.com/?p=224#comments Tue, 23 Dec 2008 21:17:40 +0000 Robert http://www.booleansplit.com/?p=224 I’m a wide angle lens freak stuck in a kit lens body. I had a Sigma 10-20mm super wide zoom for my first Pentax K10D and it stayed on more than 50% of the time. Later I rented a Canon 17-40 f/4L for a couple of days in San Francisco and shot a bunch of picts with it on my 5D. Awesome. Here’s a link to some of my wide angle shots on Flickr.

I thought 14mm was as wide as one could go on a full-frame lens. Imagine my surprise when Ken Rockwell posted his review of the extremely rare Nikon 13mm f/5.6 rectilinear fisheye. Check it out. No barrel distortion what so ever. It is truly amazing stuff.

Thanks, Ken!

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