If your looking for a lens for product shots I would highly recommend this lens. Gives you a great image and eliminates normal lens skew allowing you to capture an image in true perspective.

It's not that sharp. The maximum aperture is just okay. There's some notable chromatic aberration, and it's hard to fix in post. Of course, there's no autofocus. For all its foibles, though, I like shooting with it.

Arrived very promptly in perfect condition, with warranty and all. Fantastic deal, thank you!

Tilt-shift lenses appear to be quite in fashion at the moment, although the high cost of these specialist lenses normally make it so that many photographers cannot justify the cost, despite its benefits with control of the focal plane and of distortion.

Handling and Features Performance Verdict Specification Tilt-shift lenses appear to be quite in fashion at the moment, although the high cost of these specialist lenses normally make it so that many photographers cannot justify the cost, despite its benefits with control of the focal plane and of...

Priced reasonably; Excellent optical performance; Solid build; Good; solid controls over tilt-shift movements

Cannot rotate tilt and shift independently; Closest focus is only 40cm

The TSE 45mm is an excellent lens producing super sharp, clean images on my 5D Mark II. I use this for mostly architectural detail work, the lens is very well built and very small in size by compared today's newer lenses.

Superior build quality; Super-sharp images

The possibility's are enormous if you know how to use the lens, it is not so very easy to learn. I like the 45 mm on a FF very much, just in the middle of my two favourite's , the 35 mm and the 50/55 mm. It is easy to create miniature with this lens.

Offcourse all the nice things you can do with a tilt/shift lens; 45 mm is nice on a FF camera; Very good build

I do not like the bokeh; the only con I can think off

This kind of lenses are usually designed for achitecture, specially the wide angles, but other focals are very useful for effects in products photography.

The possibility's are enormous if you know how to use the lens, it is not so very easy to learn. I like the 45 mm on a FF very much, just in the middle of my two favourite's , the 35 mm and the 50/55 mm. It is easy to create miniature with this lens.

Offcourse all the nice things you can do with a tilt/shift lens; 45 mm is nice on a FF camera.

I do not like the bokeh; the only con I can think off

"This is a great camera. Picture quality is outstanding and video quality is essentially the same as the bigger cousin, 7D. For the price, this must be one of the best camera's on the canon market.