sanj said:
Bennymiata said:
I use my 16-35 II a lot, and it's been an excellent workhorse.
If the new has BR I'll get the new one, but if not, this lens will last me another 4 or 5 years.
What happens after 5 years? I can last practically forever.... If the new one does not have BR (I think it will) then the next replacement will be LONG time from now.
The lens will probably still work, though after enough time Canon don't support it and the inability to get parts for them will make many of them paperweights. I think the more relevant point is the IQ doesn't really stack up for many images.
The 16-35 f2.8 MkII came out when the Canon wide angle lens design team consisted of a on old blind guy, the work experience guy that also empties the bins when everybody went home, and the new kid who didn't know what end of the lens went on the camera. Well that new kid made good, he went to optics school in the evening and continued on to write his PHD on an unimaginable concept, a 17 TS-E. Well the old blind guy signed off on the 17 idea even though he truthfully didn't have the authority to and the blind guys protege, the 'new kid', became the wide and ultra wide go to guy. The marketing department, fresh from the success of the 17 TS-E put pressure on everybody else to let 'the new guy' do whatever he wants, kind of a Japanese lens skunkworks. Because all these random elements (little pun intended) fell into place, we now have the 17 TS-E, the 24 TS-E MkII, the 8-15, the 16-35 f4, the 11-24, the 35 f2 IS, the 35 f1.4L MkII.
The 16-35 f2.8 MkII is a weak performer by modern standards, and while content might trump IQ a lot of the time, there is a limit and those old weak Canon wides are not a thing of beauty.
