TS-E lens help

I have borrowed a 24mm TS-E lens for a week and next week am planning to get a 90mm TS-E.
Can you please share your experiences, tips, pitfalls with these special lenses (including howto would be great help)?
I'm not unfamiliar with Tilting principle as such having used LF camera for a shot period. However using them with digital camera or SLR is new for me. I own a 5D.

Thanks a lot for your time,

This might be helpful. The focus-tilt iteration technique takes a bit of practice, but you'll get it. If you are doing more than 4 or 5 iterations, you're probably off. Just stay calm and start over from your zero point. Keep in the back of your mind that usually very little tilt is required for common near-far landscape scenes (but every situation is different). With the Canon 24mm TS-E (1st version, not the recent II version) do not tilt or shift in the red sections marked on the lens. Image quality and light fall-off degrade quickly at these extremes. This lens also has significant CA towards the corners. I treat this in LR on every image.
Hope this helps. Have fun and let your creativity flow!

I love my 24mm tilt/shift. The link above is definitely a good starting point. A couple little tidbits that might help (and perhaps are obvious); use live view with your depth of field preview when focusing and tilting to find the "sweet spot" for depth of field. Leave your polarizer off during this process so you have lots of light for evaluating the focus.

Prashan,

I have a couple of suggestions.

Always carefully start from a "neutral position" of no tilt. Prove to your viewing eye that the tilt that you have applied is indeed better than the neutral starting point. As a beginner, I often started from a random position that the lens was left in on a prior use. This is too confusing unless you are an expert.

The 90 will take more tilt than the 24. For wide angle lenses, the amount of tilt is surprisingly small.

Have fun.

Here is the fastest way. Focus 1/2 way into to the plane you want sharp (the landscape), SLOWLY tilt the lens into the plane until the foreground and background pops into focus. Double check with 5x magnification in Live view. A 24mm needs very littl tilt unless you are super close to the foreground. Darwin

hmm,
it seems live view has its advantages. The problem is I use 5D which is from stone age !!!

Thanks for the tips you all. I tried few of them. And messed up big time. Will let you know again.