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Very good wide angle lens

Started Nov 3, 2014 | User reviews
SHillphoto Contributing Member • Posts: 769
Very good wide angle lens

First impression.

I've needed a wide angle lens for 5D mk3 for awhile but kept holding off on the 16-35 mk II because it just seamed to be missing that extra clarity of the new lenses.

The 16-35 F4 IS is a great lens it seams to have the extra clarity of the new lenses for a good price.

Sharpness seams about 1/2 a step behind the 24-70 mk II when looking at the images at 100% but really good. edge sharpness is real good, probably the best of the wide angles.

Very clear and works good in low light seams to transfer light as good as the 24-70 mk II. Very bright lens like the 24-70 have to fight the highlights when shooting into the sun, not like the dark 10-22....

Color seams really good again seams just a touch behind the 24-70....

The IS is great and quite and smooth, you can hardly tell its on.

The only bad is the chromatic aberrations are unacceptable for a lens of this caliber, so far easily corrected but this should not be a concern any more. I will try a good uv filter but for me this could be the game breaker... Doesn't distort the photo but picks up hot spots and purple fringe in the water ripples, on the leaves and on the edges of chrome.

So far this is a good lens if I can figure out the chromatic aberrations it will be a great lens. compared to the 70-200 2.8L mk II ( 5 star plus ) I would rate it at 4 stars assuming it works out....

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Canon EF 16-35mm F4L IS USM
Wideangle zoom lens • Canon EF • 9518B002
Announced: May 13, 2014
SHillphoto's score
4.0
Average community score
4.6
Canon EF 16-35mm F4L IS USM Canon EOS 5D
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yodermk Senior Member • Posts: 1,393
Re: Very good wide angle lens

Interesting. I just pixel-peeped some of my own shots with this lens at f/4, and I can just barely detect a bit of CA in the corners, but I'd never notice it if I weren't searching for it

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If it's a *Single* Lens Reflex, why do I need so many lenses?

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clager Contributing Member • Posts: 824
Re: Very good wide angle lens

Its almost impossible to produce a super-wide zoom without at least some CA, no matter what brand.

One of the reasons many invest in prime lenses.

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Steve Garratt New Member • Posts: 3
Re: Very good wide angle lens

Regarding the Chromatic Aberration, unfortunately, being a brand new lens, it is not logged onto the Canon EOS 5D MKIII's internal auto aberration control.

Unfortunately....when my Mac upgraded to OS X Yosemite 10.10 recently, my Canon EOS Utility App is now not recognised by the Mac and the flag up "Cannot be used with this version of the operating system."

appears.

This means that you cannot (yet) log the new 16-35 f4 onto your EOS 5D MKIII camera.

I phoned Canon UK regarding this glitch and they are aware and I was given a fault reference.

If and when they will upgrade the software on Canon EOS Utility, who knows, but until then, we will have to live with this anomaly.

Mind you, have you got Lightroom 5 ??

The chromatic aberration function on that seem to work fine on my images.

Oh and YES!

I am otherwise ecstatic about the new 16-35 f4!

It is a great improvement on my (now on sale on Ebay) f/2.8 MKII copy!

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