{"id":565,"date":"2006-09-15T17:30:15","date_gmt":"2006-09-15T17:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/?p=565"},"modified":"2006-09-15T17:30:15","modified_gmt":"2006-09-15T17:30:15","slug":"new_toy_err_not_yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/?p=565","title":{"rendered":"New toy, err, not yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nAhhh&#8230; a new toy arrived.  No, wait.  I don&#8217;t own that toy yet.  I have been intrigued by the tilt\/shift lenses that Canon makes.  You can read more about them and what they do <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northlight-images.co.uk\/article_pages\/tilt_and_shift_ts-e.html\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fredmiranda.com\/TS-E90\/\">here<\/a>.  So I decided to test drive one out by renting it from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rentglass.com\/shop.aspx?type=Canon\">this<\/a> store.  RentGlass.com has a cool model.  Very Netflix like.  Their only problem is that they have very low inventory.  So you have to fight over renting one.  You get notified over email that a lens that you are interested in is in stock.  So you hurry up and try to rent it.  But 99% of the time, someone else got lucky and rented it first.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pictures.hamzy.info\/RoadsAndBoatsLensTS24.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.hamzy.info\/blog-photo-RoadsAndBoatsLensTS24.jpg\" alt=\"TS-24 sample\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nMy first picture was one of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardgamegeek.com\/game\/875\">Roads and Boats<\/a>.  I set up the tripod against the table.  The camera was positioned about three feet above the table and was pointed downwards at a 47 degree angle.  This is a fixed (or prime) lens, so I positioned the box on the table mostly in the field of view.  I then adjusted the shift to move the box into the frame.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThere are two problems with this lens.  The first is that it is manual focus.  You can overcome this by repeatedly half-pressing the shutter while moving the focus around.  The familiar red boxes  will light up when a focus lock is detected.  However, the focus can get squirley when the lens plane is moved around.  The other problem is that the minimum aperature is f\/3.5.  This is 2\/3 of a stop bigger than a f\/2.8 lens.  Which requires more light to shoot and looses out on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bokeh\">bokeh<\/a>.  24mm is a pretty good field of view if I wanted to get this to take food shots, or architecture shots.  The 45mm version has a minimum aperature of f\/2.8 which is the minimum that I want, but it is not an &#8220;L&#8221; lens.  The 45mm would have a smaller field of view as well, so I would have to possibly stitch pictures together.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.hamzy.info\/RoadsAndBoatsLensTS24Histogram.jpg\" alt=\"TS-24 sample histogram\"><\/img>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nAlthough I will admit that the histogram looks suspicious.  Small range and some blown colors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahhh&#8230; a new toy arrived. No, wait. I don&#8217;t own that toy yet. I have been intrigued by the tilt\/shift lenses that Canon makes. You can read more about them and what they do here and here. So I decided to test drive one out by renting it from this store. RentGlass.com has a cool [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}