Canon TS-E 17mm and GND's

[PGD5]

To the 17mm TS-E users among you, what GND setup do you use with this lens?

I've heard one or two liking this setup, looks good to me. And as it includes a CPL the price doesn't look to bad either:
WonderPana 66



This is the only setup I've heard about for the 17mm tbh. So any other suggestions welcome

[flat-planedCrank]

I always guessed the folks using lenses with protruding front elements (like the Canon 8-15, Nikon 14-24, etc.) who cant used filters would bracket their shots and do the GND-effect in post?


Guess that doesn't help much if you want to hand-hold shots though

[markmullen]

I think the Hitech Lucroit filters are an option. They're enormous, 165mm filters.

[RobDickinson]

You either go with one of the 150mm systems, use the Fred Miranda lens cap hack for 100mm which only allows 5mm of movement or bracket and blend which many people are doing now

[PGD5]

Thanks for the tips guys

The LucrOit Filter and holder looks well, thanks for that suggestion Mark. But for an extra £40 I could get the Wonderpana kit which has a CPL in too

Would duty be added if I bought from the US?

Bracketing and layering the exposures is certainly an option too, it'll be a little more time editing but as this is for architectural photography it may be better done that way anyway. As I'll almost certainly have a part of the building reaching up into the top of the image.

I just edited a set and did this on a few actually, using only the info from the single Raw file - still worked out pretty well. Others had the sky completely swapped for something better - cheating

[RobDickinson]

For commercial work the process that gets the right results is the one you use.