At 10:11 AM 1/18/2006, you wrote:
I currently have the 24-70/2.8L and was looking at the 24-105/F4L with IS as a replacement.
I made that trade and am very happy with it because of the decrease in weight and the IS. After trying out the 24-105 on my 5D, I bought a second one for my 1D MkIIN, where it works even better because of the 1.3 crop. I guess I got extremely lucky because both of the lenses I got are "good copies".
Purists and pixel-peepers endlessly harp on soft corners on the 5D, and I'm sure you've seen lens test showing that the 24-105 is not as good optically as the 24-70 near the extremes of the zoom range. They may be right, but it doesn't bother me. The contrast and color of the 24-105 images are great, and the IS is, at least for me, a major plus. I have occasionally missed the wider aperture on people shots, but I have other lenses for times when that's really important.
If you're doing lens tests on a test bench, the 24-70 is probably the way to go. Me, I'm more than happy with the 24-105. Easily the most useful and user-friendly general-purpose lens I've ever owned in my decades of shooting. In combination with the 5D, you can't beat it for general photography in non-extreme conditions.
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