Canon TS-E 90mm f/2.8 - Review / Lab Test Report

Shift lenses allow you to compensate perspective distortions (converging verticals) by shifting the optical path off its horizontal axis. By doing so the projected image (rectangle) on the film/sensor plane gets distorted to a trapezoid negating the original effect.

Canon TS-E 90mm f/2.8

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Extremely sharp; Tilt and shift capability; Lockable adjustments

Manual focus only

Exceptional and underused for landscape

This lens , usually bought for product photography has recently become favoured for the special effect of exaggerated limited DOF (depth of field). i.e. you not only extend DOF considerably (effective DOF) you can go the other way and limit it for special effects ( like making people look like...

Consistent Output; Versatile

Difficult to Clean; No weather sealing; Slow Focus

despite of ordinary glas material (no L-series) this lens has exceptional sharpness - but the best thing about it is the unsharpness! things out of focus get blured in a special way, not seen by any other lens - even if you stop down to f11!

this lens has no competitor

rotating front element; tiny shift & tilt knobs