08-07-2010, 07:35 PM
I've done some work with the TS-E 24L (Mark I) for macro and semi-macro, on APS-C, and it actually works very well indeed.
With a 12 mm extension tube and some tilt, you can actually get the start of the DoF plane to lie almost within the lens, and image quality is actually still very good. I've also used ti successfully for flower shots, close-up, where I also made use of tilt to get the focus plane very near to th ecamera. I liek th eplan eto run at approximately 45 degrees in that case.
One of th every strong and quite often overlooked points of the TS-Es, is that they have incredibly good bokeh at all f-stops. Anythign not in focus, always faeds away very nicely, whether the items or subjects in the OOF areas are angular or not. And that is true both for background and foreground, which si another remarkable achievement. Of course, shooting semi-macro these characteristics will become most clear with the TS-E 24 <img src='http://forum.photozone.de/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
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Kind regards, Wim
With a 12 mm extension tube and some tilt, you can actually get the start of the DoF plane to lie almost within the lens, and image quality is actually still very good. I've also used ti successfully for flower shots, close-up, where I also made use of tilt to get the focus plane very near to th ecamera. I liek th eplan eto run at approximately 45 degrees in that case.
One of th every strong and quite often overlooked points of the TS-Es, is that they have incredibly good bokeh at all f-stops. Anythign not in focus, always faeds away very nicely, whether the items or subjects in the OOF areas are angular or not. And that is true both for background and foreground, which si another remarkable achievement. Of course, shooting semi-macro these characteristics will become most clear with the TS-E 24 <img src='http://forum.photozone.de/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
' />.Kind regards, Wim
Gear: Canon EOS R with 3 primes and 2 zooms, 4 EF-R adapters, Canon EOS 5 (analog), 9 Canon EF primes, a lone Canon EF zoom, 2 extenders, 2 converters, tubes; Olympus OM-D 1 Mk II & Pen F with 12 primes, 6 zooms, and 3 Metabones EF-MFT adapters ....