As you may have heard, Canon finally figured out that they needed to UPDATE their MAIN ultra wide L zoom lens, the 16-35 2.8 L Lens!! I was soo glad to hear that they were updating that lens because it’s been a source of frustration in my work for quite some time!! The 16-35 was the very first L lens that I ever owned, now I own nearly every L lens made and I am obsessed with them!!

Anyway, I was always struggled with that lens and it’s softness issues. It’s known that a lens looses sharpness when shot as wide at 16mm, but I was to the point where I almost couldn’t use the lens because my images were soo soft. It also started really giving me the “soft focus” hazy effect on top of the fact that the images were out of focus and it was missing focus and backfocusing!

I sent it to Canon for a good thorough check up and they sent it back to me, saying all was great and what I was experiencing was “standard” for that lens! Well, that really was frustrating to me, especially for a lens that expensive! I do love the wide range of that lens, though…so I hated not being able to use it! So, when I heard that they FINALLY got the message that they needed to update the lens and announced the CANON 16-35 2.8 USM II L LENS, I was SOO HAPPY…and I was first in line to trade in the old lens for the new one!! The point of all of this is to tell you that i LOVE the new 16-35 USM II!! It’s WORLD’s better than the old lens and if you experienced the same issues that I described, go trade your old lens in for the new one!!! It costed me a few hundred bucks but it was WELLLLL worth it!! The lens is faster, TONS sharper and all around more bang for your buck!!!