Canon Europe this morning announced the new TS-E 17mm ƒ/4L tilt-shift lens, the widest-angle TS lens ever offered by anybody. There’s also a new “II” version of the TS-E 24mm.

The major new feature is that the new lenses allow users to rotate the direction of the tilt and shift functions independently of each other. (They were always operable separately, just not independently rotatable.)

No word on price yet, but let’s just say if you don’t routinely depreciate new lenses, you’re not in the target demographic.

via The Online Photographer: Canon Introduces Widest-Ever Tilt-Shift Lens.

this looks to be an awesome new lens. Definitely in the “if you aren’t doing a Schedule C, you can’t afford it” realm. tilt-shift is most commonly used in architectural photography, but my first reaction is that the 17mm would be a killer landscape lens with its ability to adjust depth of field and focal blur.

drool. but not any time soon.

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