If you need to shoot in tight spaces, this lens does it, if you want to capture a vast landscape, this lens does itSo if you’re a prime shooter like myself, and you want the best 24mm you can get, I believe this is the one.

A 35mm is nice, but I find it too close to a 50mm – take two steps back with a 50mm and you’re at 35mm.

If you're looking for the best 24mm lens for apertures at f/4 or wider, this is the ticket - albeit a pricey one.

All that being said, even with the (to me anyway) eye distracting Bokeh, I love my 24mm f/1.4L II USM

The more I thought about it, I realized that the hefty 70D + EF 24mm f/1.4 would get in the way of me taking the pictures and

If landscaping is your thing or you commonly shoot between f/5.6 and f/22, the 16-35mm @ 24mm (actually, the sweet spot on that lens) fared fairly well, but still short, with regard to picture quality versus this lens - these lenses cost about the same.

Instead I would recommend sigma 35mm f/1.4, which has lower price than 35L but has better performance

It's by far my favorite lens out of all of the ones that have crossed my path with the legendary 135mm f/2L USM coming in an equally solid 2nd.

As I have said in another lens review, I’m definitely not a Canon fanboy (my Ls all hold their own against Nikon’s counterparts), but this lens might be the best 24mm prime out there at the moment.