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very first impressions

Started Jul 7, 2014 | User reviews thread
stratobill Senior Member • Posts: 2,081
Re: very first impressions

1elementin7groups wrote:

Good review, and as you say, "very first impressions." I'll bet you grow to love the lens in time.

Lensrentals did a tear down of the 16-35 IS and had some positive comments on it's construction. Also their optical/image testing was favorable. Seeing that, I ordered the lens and it will be here on Monday.

Reading your review, I will not be too quick to sell my 17-40mm. I have enjoyed it but to get the best out of it, I have had to stop it down to around f16 to get the corners sharp. My hope is that the 16-35 will be a superb performer at f5.6-8.

thanks for posting the review.

Dave

Definitely read the lens rental article, the new lens pretty soundly whips the venerable 17-40 in the corners. Stopping down to f16- that is bad corners! My 16-35 F2.8II was nowhere near that bad!

BTW for what it's worth the build quality appears equal to other lenses, like the 24-105. It's nice to know that they've gone the extra mile on the internals.

PS the threads on mine work nice and smooth, to OP, are you sure it isn't the filter?

All in all, a really nicely constructed and performing lens in my experience.

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