Canon - TS-E 17mm f/4L Tilt-Shift Lens - Black

Bring your architectural, landscape, and creative photography to new heights with the Canon TS-E 17mm f/4L Tilt-Shift Lens. Designed for the discerning professional, this lens is a marvel of engineering, offering an extraordinary combination of ultra-wide angle perspectives and precision movements to elevate your EOS Digital camera's capabilities.Experience the pinnacle of image quality with the state-of-the-art UD glass design, meticulously engineered to minimize chromatic aberrations. The aspherical elements are treated with a special coating to reduce glare, ensuring that each image you capture is of the highest clarity and pristine quality.The TS-E 17mm lens boasts an impressive 93-degree angle of view, unlocking a vast array of compositional possibilities. Its innovative TS revolving mechanism allows for independent tilt and shift movements, ranging up to +/- 90 degrees, providing unparalleled versatility and control over perspective and depth of field in your photography.Operability is enhanced with refined control knobs for tilt and shift, allowing for precise adjustments up to +/- 6.5 degrees. The SWC lens coating has been expertly applied to combat ghosting and flare, ensuring your images remain clear and vibrant, even in challenging lighting conditions.As part of Canon's esteemed L-series, this lens features a masterful optical design that includes four Ultra-Low Dispersion elements to significantly reduce color fringing and chromatic aberrations, resulting in superior clarity and color accuracy. The inclusion of one aspherical element also ensures that spherical aberrations and distortion are effectively controlled.Every lens element is coated with Canon's Subwavelength Coating, which actively suppresses flare and ghosting, delivering vivid contrasts and lifelike colors. The floating optical system and rear focus design maintain consistent image quality throughout the focusing range, from a close 9.8 inches to infinity.The precision tilt-shift mechanism of the TS-E 17mm f/4L offers +/- 12mm of shift and +/- 6.5 degrees of tilt, which can be applied independently in various directions. The tilt-locking feature ensures stability and accuracy, giving you complete creative control over your compositions.Durability is synonymous with the L-series, and this lens is no exception. It is robustly constructed to withstand dust and moisture, making it a reliable choice for shooting in diverse environments. The rounded eight-blade diaphragm enhances the aesthetic quality of out-of-focus areas, allowing you to explore shallow depth of field effects with a beautiful, creamy bokeh.The Canon TS-E 17mm f/4L Tilt-Shift Lens is an indispensable tool for professionals seeking high-quality, versatile, and innovative equipment to capture stunning architectural details, expansive landscapes, and creative compositions with unparalleled precision and clarity.