Field-test of the Canon TS-E 90mm f/2.8 Tilt & Shift Lens. The Canon Way. It is Canon's style of doing things. It has been around for a long time, down to the '60s when it first came out with the world's first 35mm SLR camera to feature a semi-transparent pellicle mirror with the Canon Pellix. Among other world's firsts were the Canon AE-1, introduced in 1976, and the first SLR camera to be controlled by a built-in CPU as well as the TS 35mm f/2.8 S.S.C. Tilt & Shift lens, then the only lens available for 35mm format that performs some of the tricks that were only possible from a large format view camera. The TS 35mm f/2.8 S.S.C. Tilt & Shift lens, although utilizing the same breech lock as Canon's discontinued FD lenses, used stopped-down aperture control for exposure calculation. When Canon decided to go for the fully electronic lens mount available with the EF lenses for the EOS System in 1987, one of the features promised then was doing away with manual stopped-down aperture control for exposure calculation with TS-type of lenses and close-up bellows for macro photography. Okay, there is yet to be a bellows from Canon that can take advantage of the fully electronic mount of the EF lenses/EOS cameras but TS-type lenses that do away with the complicated stopped-down manual aperture control have been made available since the early '90s. Canon offered not one but three such lenses for the EOS System. They are the TS-E 24mm f/3.5L, TS-E 45mm f/2.8 and TS-E 90mm f/2.8. All three feature the same EMD control used in other EF lenses to enable automatic aperture control and exposure metering. However, they are capable of manual focus only as the Tilt & Shift features make AF impractical. Canon TS-E 90mm f/2.8 Tilt mechanism being used     Both Tilt & Shift mechanisms used Lens Hood is a standard accessory     The lever for vertical control Lens can be turn vertically when mounted The loss of autofocus is not important since these lenses definitely won't be used for moving subject and action photography but for architecture, interiors, still-life, landscapes, portraiture, food and product photography. The TS-E 24mm f/3.5L is more suited to architecture and interiors while the TS-E 45mm f/2.8 is great to be used for subjects such as food and product photography. The TS-E 90mm f/2.8 lens is great for landscapes, portraits, still-life and close-ups of nature. The Tilt feature is for used to control depth-of-field (maximizing and minimizing) while the Shift is intended for perspective control, especially on architecture and for rendering straight lines parallel to the film plane. << Back to Main . 1 . 2 . 3 .