Questionaire: What is Your Experience with the 24-70L?

1) Yes
2) Couple of years
3) Yes
4) N/A
5) N/A
6) Had none.

It was nice on the 20D; it's incredible on the 5D.

1 Yes
2 18mo
3 was soft when new
4 sent for warranty service
5 its notably better but not in the league of any of my other L lenses
6 it was and continues to be a lens issue

1. Do you own a 24-70L? Yes

2. How long have you owned it? 1 mo., about 6 mos., about 1 year, or longer? 4 months

3. Were you completely satisfied with it the day you got it? If not, what was the problem? Yes

4. If you were not satisfied, what did you do? Return it? Send it for adjustment or repair? Work with it? N/A

5. If you did have it adjusted, how does it work now? N/A

6. If you had issues with it at first, do you think it was "user problems" more than the lens itself? N/A

Mine was a sharp as a tack out of the box. I love mine to death.

Jarrad wrote in post #2028196
1 - No
2 - I had mine for one day
3 - No
4 - It was a used lens and defective. Front focus from 24-50, perfect from 50-70. I sent it in to Canon for repair. According to them it ended up being irrepairable and I opted for a refund.
5 - N/A
6 - I think it was a problem with the lens, as I tested it carefully and Canon confirmed it's problem. Whether or not it was defective to begin with or as a result of the previous owner's use, I don't know.

This sucks as mine does the exact thing but back focuses from 24-50. Please see my thread:

https://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthre​ad.php?t=217997

If this is not repairable, I am going to have a tough decision to get another 24-70 as I do love the images it produces when it is in focus.

SuzyView wrote in post #2027107
It was time to get this in the open, I think.

1. Do you own a 24-70L? Yes

2. How long have you owned it? 1 mo., about 6 mos., about 1 year, or longer? 3 years

3. Were you completely satisfied with it the day you got it? If not, what was the problem? No. It was soft wide open. The timing for buying it was to shoot my daughter's high school play - paractices, dress rehearsals, and performances, and shutter speeds were too slow at anything that was sharp.

4. If you were not satisfied, what did you do? Return it? Send it for adjustment or repair? Work with it? Bought the 35mm f2, 50mm f1.4, and 85mm f1.8. Any of them were sharper at 2.8 (and wider) than the 24-70 L.

5. If you did have it adjusted, how does it work now?

6. If you had issues with it at first, do you think it was "user problems" more than the lens itself? I learned to live with the softness by stopping it down and raising the ISO, but I really never got over the weight (a brick) and the loss of use of the built-in flash on my Drebel due to its size. It became my winter only (indoor plays, concerts, etc) walkaround lens once I got the 20D and the EF-S 17-85 IS. Now I have the EF-S 17-55 f2.8 IS, and since I got the 1D MKII N, I needed a walkaround lens for it, so that is where it lives most of the time. If I didn't already have it, and I tried it out, I don't think I would buy it - I would live without a walkaround zoom for the 1D2N.

I hope this will clear up some of the threads that have been around lately about this lens.

Have Fun,

1. Yes

2. Two to three months now.

3. I bought mine thinking mostly in a walk-around lens. But, for a FF body, this is not the case, *at least for me*. For architectural and landscape shots, 24mm is not totally adequate and I need to recompose too much, trying to compensante the lack of a more wide view. For portraits, 70mm is not enough: I need to get too closer to the subject and sometimes this is not possible. Now, I'm forgeting about walk-around single lens and considering a walk-around "basic" lens kit.

4. I'm selling mine.

5. No adjustments need.