Canon Ts-E 135Mm F/4L Macro Tilt-Shift Camera Lens

This is the third Canon lens that I have purchased from this vendor on Amazon. All 3 were well-packaged and arrived in excellent condition with excellent functionality and appearance. Takuya Adachi Camera Shop has a solid repeat buyer for the future.

The lens is in a good condition and works perfectly.

まだ使いきれてないけど面白い写真が撮れるし色のりが綺麗。チルトとシフトは頭で考えてもわからないので使って色々試して体感してる。本当に面白いレンズ。45という画角もいい。物撮りから風景までなんでも。楽しいです。

Le modèle reçu présentait un défaut de fabrication. Canon France à Courbevoie l'a échangé à neuf sans aucun problème. C'est un objectif très performant, mais qui trouve ses limites avec le boîtier 5Ds.

When I purchased a used lens copy of this TS-E lens, I was already familiar with tilt/shift lenses by using both the 24/3.5 I and II TS-E versions. The design of the 90/2.8 TS-E is the same one as formerly used in the 24/3.5 TS-E I lens. Advantage of this old build style is its metal lens body and better knobs to turn compared to the new 24/3.5 II TS-E lens. The TS-E lenses of the older style on the other hand lack the option to rotate easily tilt and shift perpendicular or parallel to each other. I preferred with the old version of the 24/3.5 I TS-E lens to have the tilt in parallel to the shift which is a 90 deg turn of the lens mount against the front part of the lens (manufacturing setting for the old type of Canon TS-E lenses is perpendicular tilt versus shift). This can fairly easily being done by unscrewing the 4 tiny screws in the corners of the lens housing, turning one of the two parts 90 degrees counter-clockwise, and reattaching both lens parts against each other. I prefer this position because it is more useful in landscape and especially with the 90/2.8 TS-E for macro photography to increase depth of field by tilting the lens.The 90/2.8 TS-E lens turned out to be surprisingly sharp even when fully shifted in either direction without any visible vignetting which was a major issue in the first version of the 24/3.5 TS-E I lens. This 90/2.8 TS-E lens can easily compete in sharpness with my very sharp copy of the newer 24/3.5 TS-E II lens. I also tested this lens with my full frame infrared camera with cutoff at 715 nm, and it worked flawlessly. Merging three photos taken in both shift directions and without shift works easily without any remaining distortions or problems for the post processing software to merge the photos.So far I only used this lens for landscape photography, but I am sure it is excellent for macro and close-up photography, too. Since it is a manual focus lens like all other TS-E lenses, I recommend finding a good used lens copy for a reasonable price. Canon will likely update this lens in 2014/2015 time frame with a new model which likely will be able to rotate tilt versus shift more easily (as in the 24/3.5 TS-E II lens). I am not convinced that I would benefit from a new lens model of this already superior lens in image quality. I am glad that I am now owning this lens - definitely a keeper and one of my sharpest lenses.