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Simple one: best standard landscape zoom ?

Started Dec 9, 2017 | Polls thread
highlights Regular Member • Posts: 198
Re: Simple one: best standard landscape zoom ?
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borax wrote:

Simple question: in your opinion, witch is the best standard zoom lens for landscape ? By standard, I mean 24-70 or 24-105mm, on FF body. By landscape, I mean mostly used by f/5.6 or less, and looking for best and most homogeneous sharpness.

You'll notice there's a big missing one. Obviously Canon 24-70 f/2.8 L II is out of the poll for being to good, too pricey.

Its not on your list but a 16-34mm f4 is a favorite. Before that its predecessor, the 17-40mm was preferred. , It is still a nice lens but but well behind (either of) the newer 16-35mms in terms of across the frame sharpness, reduced CA, etc.  To my bespectacled eyes, the  16-35 f4 is visibly better (on a 5dsr at least) in the 20 to 28mm range than the 24-70 F4 at 24mm (at F8) and dead heat with the 24-70 F2.8III. All three of these latter are demonstrably better than both marks of 24-105mm. That said the Mk 2 of the 24-105 is improved over the mk 1 at both ends of the range, especially at the wider apertures.

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