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The Canon RF 24mm f/1.8 Macro IS STM is a wide-angle lens for FF and APS-C, manufactured from 2022. The focus is done by Stepper Motor, it has image stabilization. The average price, when it has been added to the JuzaPhoto database, is 685 €;
8 users have given it an average vote of 8.9 out of 10.
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This lens is available with the following mounts:
Canon RF: this lens is compatible with mirrorless fullframe and APS-C Canon RF.
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Opinion:I come from a Canon EOS Reflex analog system obviously film (EOS 3 & EOS 33) and then Digital Reflex (all the 5D series and a 1D III apsH) and of course I have, I have had or at least I have tried almost all the lenses of the Canon EF kit with the exception of the long telephoto over 300mm that cost and cost as much as a car, so once I switched to mirrorless, and I must confess more for video functions than for photography, where 5D were and still are more than enough for everything, I went through many doubts and reflections as well as months of study to begin to decide to switch or at least to combine EF lenses with RF lenses and the reasons are many: starting with the really and absolutely exaggerated cost especially for the L series but also for the useless overlapping of focal lengths for those like me who already have the EF equivalents ... then slowly I said to myself: come on, let's try! and of course I started from the so-called RF for "poor" or STMs which then not always and not all are completely for poor given the prices... but anyway I must confess that a world has opened up to me... Canon is a company that sometimes really you off, you would beat it up and change brands without batting an eyelid and yet... other times you realize that he brings out things that many people do not initially appreciate, including me, because they simply do not understand them! I mention the Canon EOS R for me absolutely underestimated only because of the limitations of the video sector ... and clearly superior on the photographic side, for example compared to a much-praised R6 (but do you really believe that Canon may have put the sensor of the 1DX Mark III in the R6?) but with general contrast, colors and dominants often unmanageable and indigestible... However, in order not to dwell too much I will try to summarize: I find the triad RF 24/35/85 STM IS absolutely at least equal if not superior to the corresponding EF usm series NOT L series unfortunately I cannot say the same thing about the RF 16mm and the RF 50mm stm too plasticky and whose only undoubted merit is the lightness and small size ... finally a separate mention deserves the pancake RF 28mm f/2.8 STM very sharp, very light and tiny brilliant lens that I hope will soon be joined by at least an identical RF 40mm F2.8 EDIT: it seems that Canon has done even better by proposing an RF 45mm f/1.2 STM but that is not a pancake though... anyway beware of these hyper corrected Canon RF lenses via software inside the R series cameras. with this method Canon wants to avoid what happened in the past with the EF series lenses which, being optically corrected, have been used and have been used for decades also on camera bodies of other brands, which evidently Canon did not like and with this new RF system tries to force you to use only its bodies machine...
Opinion:I went from the canon ef 24mm 1.4 ii to this and I must say that the blurred and sharpness of the old L series can be seen, not so much but it makes you feel a little the lack of 1.4. But you have a small, light and stabilized lens in your hand. The AF works well, not lightning fast but at this focal length it is fine. Probably the price is high for what it offers. Personally I like vignetting
Opinion:It's worth what it costs (and it's not cheap). It is part of that series of Canon lenses (and not only) designed not to be optically perfect and usable "as is" but taking into account all the corrections that the camera firmware and / or post production software will operate when opening the file. The RAW file excluding the above fixes shows an image strongly plagued by barrel distortion, strong light drop at the edges and insufficient sharpness in the peripheral areas of the format. Said so it seems a ciofeca, but in reality modern optics are not designed as if they had to be corrected for the film (ie without any possible intervention between shooting and viewing the image) but precisely taking into account at the start, in the design phase, the subsequent fw and sw interventions on the file. Other RF L series lenses that I own are already very correct "of them" but cost a bang, weigh and bulk a lot. Downstream of the fw / sw optimization process this 24/1.8 shows off a surprising image quality in terms of sharpness, uniformity of yield, absence of clb and - why not - distortion. I believe that the focal length is less than 24mm, which return as such after processing the file, when the barrel returns to being a nice rectangle, the darkness at the edges lights up with new light and the peripheral resolution recovers readability more than enough to compare it with the image center. These aspects, this idea of a design that from the beginning takes into account and takes for obvious the post-shot processing, can make you turn up your nose, and I understand it. Even the canon Rf 16mm/2.8, without post-shot processing almost looks like a fisheye. And for those who do not know, the fabulous output file of a Leica Q2, is also the result of a process that starts from the image produced by the summilux 28/1.7 which - in itself - suffers from the same flaws mentioned above. It may not be nice to know, but it is; But, I add, it works perfectly: very sharp prints of 50x75cm have shown me several times. Then it is obvious that Q2 is a closed system optimized for that lens on that sensor, which will never be separated (except by hammering, if you want to). Instead with a system with interchangeable lenses like Canon RF, it goes without saying that the fw and sw corrections for a shot of my 15-35 / 2.8 set to 24mm will be minimal, while the interventions necessary to straighten, illuminate and optimize the same shot obtained with the RF 24 / 1.8 are much more substantial: therefore, perhaps, a fanatic of the magnification of the detail at the edges seen at 400% will find more or less striking differences. But if this 24, which we remember is very bright, stabilized and also reaches the RR 1: 2, was excellent without the need for fw and sw, well it would cost more than € 2000 and would be much longer and heavier. Everyone always says it, but I join the chorus that criticizes Canon for the absence of a hood supplied: when will they understand that sensible people go to buy them from Chinese manufacturers on Amazon?
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