With an f/2.8 maximum aperture throughout its entire zooming range, the zoom lens is designed with the professional photographer in mind, enabling them to shoot in available light or lowlight situations with ease. And the ability to shoot at its 20mm or the other three focal lengths available in such situations as quickly as possible. Available light shooting is easy Available light scene shot at 20mm Available light scene shot at 28mm Another available light scene shot at 20mm One reason I am using my very own EF 20-35mm f/2.8L AFD zoom lens for this review is to do away with one myth that is quite popular here in the Far East region (except for Japan itself): "All Japanese-make lenses will lose their coatings, contrasts and color balances after five years of continuous usage." These four photos below are examples shot by my lens. As EOS users and other photo enthusiasts can see, the contrast (as in 1st & 3rd photo), color balance (2nd) and sharpness (4th) are still as excellent as when I first bought it together with my Canon EF 80-20mm f/2.8L AFD zoom lens. Contrast as excellent as ever Color balance is still superb Contrast is well rendered here Superior sharpness is still evident As with all wide-angle zoom or single focal length lenses, the Canon EF 20-35mm f/2.8L AFD is great for creating exaggerated perspective distortions with any of its four angle-of-views. The tree is as big as the building The van in foreground is bigger than the buildings The lamp post is bigger than the building Leaning buildings are another perspective distortion Text and photos by Philip Chong. Copyright 1999 by Canon Marketing (M) Sdn Bhd << Back to Main . 1 . 2 . 3 .