{"id":12031,"date":"2012-11-25T23:15:05","date_gmt":"2012-11-26T03:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/?p=12031"},"modified":"2022-05-16T23:01:59","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T03:01:59","slug":"review-canon-24-70mm-f2-8l-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/review-canon-24-70mm-f2-8l-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"review: Canon EF 24-70mm f\/2.8L II"},"content":{"rendered":"

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review: Canon EF 24-70mm f\/2.8L II<\/h1>\n

It was with great excitement that I received a review copy of the new\u00a0Canon 24-70mm f\/2.8L II<\/a><\/strong> (B&H<\/a> \/ Amazon<\/a><\/em>) lens. There were several reasons that this highly-anticipated lens interested me. My experience with Canon gear<\/a> has been … let’s just say it’s been an uneven experience at times. There are specifically two lenses that got my ire – the Canon 16-35mm f\/2.8 II and the (original) Canon 24-70mm f\/2.8<\/p>\n

The older Canon 24-70mm f\/2.8 has a bit of a reputation. While some people love it, others hate it for being an inconsistent lens. It has a tendency to go out of calibration. Also, in my experience it tends towards softness when you zoom to 24mm, focusing at\u00a0infinity. I dread it when a second shooter uses this lens, and by now I insist they use the much more reliable Canon 24-105mm f\/4L zoom<\/a> (affiliate<\/em>), instead. Then I know the images will be sharp, with much less chance of being back-focused. Yup, I’m not a fan of the older lens at all.<\/p>\n

In contrast, I absolutely love the Canon 70-200mm f\/2.8L II IS<\/a> (affiliate<\/em>). It is sharp, even wide open. Along with the aggressive stabilization, this makes it a wonderful lens to use in low light. Highly recommended. Every Canon shooter should own one.<\/p>\n

But for me, there really was a gap with Canon in a bread-and-butter pro-spec top-notch reliable and crisply-sharp mid-range f\/2.8 zoom. (It has to be all of those things!) Especially if you look at the superb Nikon 24-70mm f\/2.8 AF-S<\/a> (affiliate<\/em>) in comparison. But now the new Canon 24-70mm f\/2.8L II<\/a> has entered the scene.<\/p>\n

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\nNow, before I go any further, I need to explain how the reviews on my site work. Most often, the reviews are based on equipment that I actually own and use. But I also get equipment on loan from various suppliers. It is important to me that my reviews and the descriptions of my experiences with the gear, are real. Unlike another reviewer-of-every-lens-that-has-ever-existed, I can’t (and don’t want to) write reviews of equipment that I haven’t actually used.\u00a0It is very important to me that there’s integrity to the articles\u00a0and reviews\u00a0on my website.<\/p>\n

The counterpoint here is that the Amazon and B&H links on my site are affiliate links. I get a small percentage when someone buys equipment through me. It helps maintain this website. The Tangents blog is a labor of love, but there is also the need to have it generate some income for me to off-set the hours and hours that I spend maintaining it. I take real pride in this website and what has been achieved with it, and the trust that people have shown in me. And that means that I don’t want to be that blogger that post endless announcements of new equipment and fake reviews that are nothing more than a listing of the specs.<\/p>\n

Even with the reviews that I have written, I try to make it as interesting and generally informative even for someone who is using another brand. So that’s a bit of a balancing act there with all this.<\/p>\n

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How well does the Canon 24-70mm f\/2.8 II perform?<\/h2>\n

So now that everyone has a sense of trepidation about this …
\nJust how awesome is the new Canon 24-70mm f\/2.8L II ?<\/strong><\/p>\n