Testing the Crop loss with Canon TS-E 17mm lens on Canon Mark iii versus on the Sony A7R with Matabones V adapter

Testing the Crop loss on with Canon TS-E 17mm lens on Canon Mark iii

and on the Sony A7R

The Canon 5D Mark iii with TS-E 17 mm tilt shift lens professional photographer austin

My buddy Marc Swendner and I got the idea of testing the focal Canon TS-E 17mm tilt shift lens on both my Canon Mark iii and with his new Sony A7R with the Metabones V adapter ring. Both of us shoot architectural photography and since he bought the new Sony A7R he wanted to see if the new Sony camera would support the TS-E 17 mm tilt shift lens that we both depend on for our work. This 17 mm tilt shift lens is absolutely the cats meow because it is dead on sharp and it allows us to control the perspective of our interior and exterior photographs. Our hopes were that the Sony AR7 could deliver the same focal width with the adapter ring on it. Here are the results. The adapter ring on the Sony does crop the image significantly. It renders the TS-E 17 mm lens to be equivalent to about a 26 mm lens after the crop effect.

Austin photographers Johnny Stevens and Marc Swendner testing the TS-E tilt shift 17 mm lens with the Canon and the Sony

The Sony AR7 with adapter ring

Image from the Canon 5 D Mark 3 with 17mm tilt shift lens Johnny Stevens photography

Image from the Sony AR7 with Metabones V adapter ring on the 17mm tilt shift lens Marc Swendner photography