17mm Tilt Shift For Boat Interiors

I was wondering if anyone has used the 17mm tilt shift to photograph the interiors of boats or in other very tight areas. I'm trying to keep the perspective, vertical and horizontal lines as straight as possible. It seems that very time I use a ultra wide regular lens (on a full frame body), correcting the perspective in post just doesn't look real and accurate, let alone loosing some of the image. Any advice would be appreciated.

It may help considerably, nor not much, depending on exactly what the issue is. I find that for interiors like that I haven't actually need to use shift much (but I don't have a lot of experience either), but the TS-E will have a lot less barrel distortion than most UWA lenses.

It might be for the types of shots you are doing that horizontal shift may actually be more valuable than vertical though (TS-E will do both simultaneously). I personally had a bit of a 'eureka' moment when shooting architecture a few months back when I realized I should also be considering horizontal shifts. Any time you are angling the lens either vertically or horizontally, you will create distortion that can be corrected using shift (if you have enough shift available. However, even with this you can get some strange perspective effects simply due to the UWA perspective.

An example shot that you are unhappy with may help us determine if a TS-E would do a lot better, but ultimately you may just have to rent one to see.

When I shoot tight interiors I like to use a tighter, less distorted lens like my 50 and stitch a ton of photos together. I can end up with some very good images. I also use PTLens and other plugins to correct distoritons on wide shots.