The Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L II is the perfect super wide angel zoom. The wide angle zoom lens is what I consider one of the most important wide lenses in Canon’s line up – I love it when I running a long a coast with rock, island and small sandy beaches.
As seen on this images you can crop a lot of things into the frame – in this images I us the 16mm setting to get focus on the rocks in the foreground with the turquoises water. The rocks are warmly colored as the sun is setting and covered with a light layer of snow. A cold day on and exotic coast captures with the Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L II and the Canon 5D Mark II solid on the Gitzo Tripod.
Here is a panorama of the Pudong district in Shanghai– the largest city in the People’s Republic of China – beside this wide angle shot captured with the Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8 L II and the Canon 5D Mark II I made a large panoramic photo stitch together in Adobe Photoshop CS5 from 6 RAW images.
Yes, this lens exhibits some corner softness and light fall off at the wide end and/or at f2.8, however this starts to clear up nicely even at f/4 and is completely gone by f/8. So altogether and excellent lens for landscape photography.
Compared to the Canon 17-40mm f/4 I like the The 16-35mm f/2.8 because it goes to f/2.8, which is an significant improvement at all apertures and focal lengths.
Here is a more in depth review of the Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L II.
Martin Bay
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