In my research, the 14-24 outperforms the 14mm II in most all respects except for maybe distortion. In all the test images I\'ve found the 14-24 is sharp corner to corner, shows no high contrast edge fringing, etc. I do love my 14mm II but when I saw full res samples from the 14-24 it was immediately clear that up until f8 or so the 14-24 has an edge. In any case the 14mm II is a fabulous lens, has AF and auto aperture stop-down on Canon bodies, and hence it\'s bar none the best ultra wide available for us. It\'s much sharper than my 24L, 35L, and 50L at just about any aperture setting which I think is quite remarkable for a 14mm ultra wide. The corner to corner sharpness is also quite good, with my only gripe being the slight fringing of high contrast edges towards the edge of frame from f2.8-f8. It\'s a minor complaint though and all in all it\'s worth the money if you need an ultrawide.
Dec 12, 2008 at 02:07 PM
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