Our Overall Score:
9.1/10
Thanks for stopping by to read our Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM Ultra Wide-Angle Zoom Lens review. Here we’ll take a look at a range of the key features, benefits, positives and negatives to help you decide if Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM Ultra Wide-Angle Zoom Lens is right for you, or if you should be looking for a different product in the Lenses category.
Latest price search at Currys PC World: £569
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There are many factors that we consider when buying, and reviewing products like Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM Ultra Wide-Angle Zoom Lens. In this review we will take the 4 main considerations and look at how they stack up against the competition, be it other products from the same brand, Canon or alternative products in the Lenses category. The 4 factors that we’re going to explore now are, Quality, Price, Reviews and the overall score.
Quality of Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM Ultra Wide-Angle Zoom Lens
Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM Ultra Wide-Angle Zoom Lens scores 9.5/10 for quality in our review.
Quality is a very important factor when it comes to buying any product, but it’s particularly important with Lenses. It’s never going to be easy to get a real feel for the quality of a product without being able to see or even test it.
This is why it’s so important to read lots of customer reviews, where you will be able to get an understanding from many of the customers of Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM Ultra Wide-Angle Zoom Lens, just how good it is, in terms of quality. Take your time to read through the reviews looking for specific comments about the quality. It’s worth spending time looking for reviews from customers that have owned the product for some time as that will give you a really good idea of the product’s durability.
Our best advice for checking out the quality is reading reviews, but also use some of these to help you get an idea of the quality:
- Price: The old saying “you get what you pay for” is a good indication as to how good quality you should expect from a product.
- Specification: Check out the specs for Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM Ultra Wide-Angle Zoom Lens and see how they compare to your expectations and other products.
- Brand: Some brands are known for delivering amazing quality products, it’s a case of trying to find the Rolex equivalent for Lenses, but at a realistic and reasonable price.
- Previous experience: Have you ever owned any Lenses? Think about your experience of the product and how good it was. What brand was it? How much was it? What was it made from? All of these can help you when considering your options.
Price analysis
Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM Ultra Wide-Angle Zoom Lens scores 8.4/10 for price in our review.
Price is normally the most important factor when considering a purchase. Especially when you’re shopping online, it’s really easy for us to shop around now so we can easily compare prices of the same product against many retailers with just a few clicks. In fact here at Review Pros we do that leg work for you, by comparing many different retailers to find you the best price. But price is also a big factor for which product we choose too, not just which retailer.
To give an example, the most expensive product that we found in the Lenses category was £2799.00, whilst the cheapest we found was £99.00 so there’s a significant variance in the prices that different products are available for. For this reason we always recommend that you set yourself a budget before you spend too much time shopping around for a product. It’s easy to get carried away and buying a much more expensive product than you really need, but setting a budget will help to avoid this.
As part of our price analysis we’re going to break the price of Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM Ultra Wide-Angle Zoom Lens down and compare it and analyse it in the following ways.
- Compare to other products in the same category
- Compare to other products from the same brand
- Compare to other products that fit both of the above (the same category and the same brand)
Prices of products in the Lenses category
Here we’re going to look at the prices you can expect to pay for products from the Lenses category. we’re opted to use Currys PC World for this comparison, as they offered the most competitive prices for Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM Ultra Wide-Angle Zoom Lens.
To start with, we look at the average price of a product in the Lenses category. This was £691.46 from the 153 products we found in that category. So Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM Ultra Wide-Angle Zoom Lens actually comes in below average at £569.
We then looked at the most expensive product in the category, which was £2799.00 and the least expensive, which was £99.00. In total we found that of the 153, 72 were more expensive and 80 were less expensive, some products may have then had exactly the same price as Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM Ultra Wide-Angle Zoom Lens.
Prices of products from Canon
Next up, we wanted to look at products from the brand, Canon. Again we looked at the average price you can expect to pay for a product from Canon, which was £431.49 of the 305 products we found. So Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM Ultra Wide-Angle Zoom Lens price is above average for the brand.
The cheapest product we managed to find from Canon was £3.99 with the most expensive coming in at £2819.00.
Prices of products from Canon and in the Lenses category
Then finally on our price analysis we wanted to dig a little deeper by looking at products from Canon that sit specifically within the Lenses category.
For this we found that the average price was £844.06, making Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM Ultra Wide-Angle Zoom Lens at £569 actually below average price.
Then we looked at the highest priced item that falls under this criteria, the price of this was £2799.00 with the lowest priced item being £99.00. In total there were 30 items that were more expensive and 32 that was less expensive.
Reviews of Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM Ultra Wide-Angle Zoom Lens
Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM Ultra Wide-Angle Zoom Lens scores 9.3/10 for customer reviews in our review.
Perhaps one of the most important steps in choosing a product that you’re going to be buying online, is reading reviews. The more reviews you can read the better. Take your time to look through a range of different reviews, both good and bad as these will really give you the best insight into how good Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM Ultra Wide-Angle Zoom Lens is.
Overall score
Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM Ultra Wide-Angle Zoom Lens scores 9.1/10 overall in our review.
This part of the review takes the various scores for quality, price and customer reviews and combines them in order to provide you with one simple score to help you determine how good the product is overall. This score can then easily be compared to other products and be used as a benchmark.
There are of course many alternative products from Canon so feel free to take a look at some of the alternatives, but in the meantime check out the many reviews for Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM Ultra Wide-Angle Zoom Lens by clicking the View Reviews button at the bottom of your screen.
Additional information: Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM Ultra Wide-Angle Zoom Lens
- Brand: Canon
- Model Number: f/4L
- Ideal for landscape and architectureCompatible with Canon EF mountAperture range: f/4.0 – f/22Silent focus
- EAN: 4960999189949
- Description: Top features: – Versatile zoom range for photographing a range of subjects – Advanced Canon optics for brilliant results – Close focusing distance for detailed shots – Experiment with filters thanks to the non-rotating front element – Weather resistant design for use out in the fieldVersatile zoom rangeThe Canon EF 17-40 mm f/4L USM lens offers an ultra-wide angle zoom range on full-frame EOS cameras or acts as a standard zoom when mounted on DSLRs equipped with APS-C sized sensor – giving an angle of view equivalent to a 28-70mm lens.Advanced Canon opticsThe advanced Canon optics has been developed with 12 lens elements arranged in nine groups. The Super Spectra lens coating works to ensure outstanding colour balance with minimal ghosting and flare.With three aspheric elements, the Canon EF wide-angle lens provides stunning image quality over the 17-40mm zoom range, with the Super Ultra-low Dispersion glass working to prevent chromatic aberrations.Close focusing distanceA close focusing distance of just 28cm throughout the entire zoom range means you can achieve stunning close-up shots with beautiful background blur.The Canon EF 17-40mm lens has been constructed with an ultrasonic motor that drives a speedy focusing performance in near silence. The outstanding holding torque reaches the precise point of focusing, ensuring a consistently accurate performance.What’s more, there is full-time manual override ready and available, allowing you to make focus adjustments without leaving AF mode.Experiment with filtersThe front of the lens is non-rotatable, this makes it easier to use specialised filters such as polarisers and colour graduates. There is a drop-in gelatine-filter holder located at the back of the EF lens.Weather resistantThe Canon lens boasts a lead-free glass construction, making it highly resistant to dust and moisture – ideal for taking photos in rough conditions and challenging environments.
- Product ID: 727205738
