Canon® Canon 16-35mm F/4L IS

The Canon 16-35mm f/4L IS is a high-quality wide-angle zoom that’s optimized for full-frame Canon DSLRs. Key features include:

• Premium image quality

• 4-stop image stabilization

• 108° coverage

• Optimized for full-frame DSLRs

Ultra-Wide Zoom. Offering 108º of coverage at its widest, the 16-35mm f/4L IS is great choice for landscape, street, and event photography. It covers the ultra-wide to moderately wide focal lengths and has constant f/4 aperture throughout the zoom range.

Image Stabilization. Provides up to 4 stops of correction, enabling you to shoot static subjects at slower shutter speeds without fear of blur.

Full-Frame Coverage. The ultra-wide angle zoom offers 35mm full-frame coverage, making it compatible with Canon’s full line of EF-mount DSLRs.

L-Series Quality. As an L-series lens, image and build quality are premium. It features three aspheric lens elements to correct aberrations, two UD elements help reduce chromatic aberrations from corner to corner throughout the zoom range, and fluorine coatings to repel dust and minimize ghosting. The ring-type USM motor provides fast, silent performance with full-time manual override. Internal focusing ensures the physical size of the lens doesn’t change while focusing, and the weather-sealed barrel provides protection from the elements.

Here we have a good (not great) practical lens. Is it the sharpest wide-angle zoom? Nope (although sharp wide-angle zoom is kind of an oxymoron). In any test of sharpness it’s good, but not great. …

Here we have a good (not great) practical lens. Is it the sharpest wide-angle zoom? Nope (although sharp wide-angle zoom is kind of an oxymoron). In any test of sharpness it’s good, but not great. If you want really ultra-wide, well, 16mm is just wide. It zooms to 35mm, but if you have a 24-70mm lens handy, then that will honestly probably be sharper from 24mm to 35mm than the 16-35mm is.

So, why do you want this? Because it’s reasonably priced, good, and has four remarkably efficient stops of IS. If you’re shooting wide angles in iffy light, you can get a good picture with this lens that your f/2.8 lens might not get. Think dramatic scenery sunset, large group shots at a wedding, stuff like that. It also takes standard screw-on filters well, which not all wide-angle lenses do.

January 2019