Canon EF 11-24 mm f/4L USM review - Introduction

Have you rated your lenses yet?

Canon EF 11-24 mm f/4L USM

8 October 2015

Arkadiusz Olech

1. Introduction

So far the 16-35 mm models have been the widest zooms offered by Canon - at the shortest focal length they offered an angle of view reaching 107 degrees. This category has always been dominated by Sigma which already in 2001 presented the AF 15–30 mm f/3.5–4.5 EX DG lens and in 2003 they produced something even better, the 12–24 mm f/4.5–5.6 EX DG HSM. The difference between 12 and 16 mm might seem at first glance not exactly big but in this category of equipment it is really huge; after all at 12 mm the field of view reaches already 122 degrees.

Meanwhile Nikon joined the race to produce the best full frame, ultra wide-angle zoom with its 14-24 mm f/2.8 but the next strong argument belonged once again to Sigma which in 2011 showed the next version of their 12-24 mm model. In September 2014 Tamron entered that segment of the market producing the 15-30 mm f/2.8 Di VC USD.

Canon was not idle; in February 2015 they outshone everybody by presenting the EF 11-24 mm f/4L USM which, at the shortest focal length, boasts of an angle of view amounting to as much as 126 degrees; mind you it also has a distinctly faster aperture than the Sigma.

Please Support Us

If you enjoy our reviews and articles, and you want us to continue our work please, support our website by donating through PayPal. The funds are going to be used for paying our editorial team, renting servers, and equipping our testing studio; only that way we will be able to continue providing you interesting content for free.

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - advertisement - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

We would like to thank Canon Poland for lending us the lens for testing purposes.

You are also invited to get acquainted with our test procedure, described in the article "How do we test lenses?" If you feel it’s still not enough, please go to our FAQ section where you can find some further explanation.