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Web ID: 21653699Under the Canon RF lens lineup, the RF 24mm f/1.4 L VCM Lens stands out as a versatile tool for both still-image and video enthusiasts. This lens is part of the innovative Hybrid series, offering a remarkable combination of wide-angle coverage and a fast f/1.4 maximum aperture, making it ideal for dramatic photography and establishing shots in videography. When mounted on a full-frame camera, it delivers a wide-angle perspective that has been a favorite among photographers and videographers for decades.Designed with video creators in mind, the RF 24mm f/1.4 L VCM Lens features a dedicated manual iris control ring, allowing for smooth aperture transitions from f/1.4 to f/16 during video capture. The lens is equipped with a cutting-edge linear focus motor known as the Voice Coil Motor (VCM), which operates in near silence, ensuring that your audio remains pristine. This VCM works seamlessly with the Nano USM on the floating focus unit, providing incredibly fast and accurate autofocus. Additionally, focus breathing is minimized, enhancing the lens's versatility for video applications.The lens offers dual filter attachment options: a 67mm front screw thread for traditional filters and a rear cut gel filter holder, which is included. Customization is at your fingertips with an assignable control ring and button, allowing you to tailor the lens to your shooting needs. Built to withstand challenging environments, the lens is dust and weather-resistant, featuring two aspheric lenses and advanced coatings such as Air Sphere Coating (ASC), Super Spectra Coating (SSC), and Fluorine Coating, all of which work together to significantly reduce ghosting, flare, and smudges.Optical excellence is a hallmark of the Canon RF 24mm f/1.4 L VCM Lens. Its sophisticated optical design incorporates two UD lenses and one aspherical lens, ensuring superior image quality. The lens's coatings further enhance image clarity by minimizing unwanted reflections and protecting against environmental elements. As with all L-series lenses, it includes robust sealing around the control ring, focus ring, zoom ring, operation panel, and lens mount, ensuring reliability in various shooting conditions.The RF 24mm f/1.4 L VCM Lens is a testament to Canon's commitment to advancing both still and video photography. Its innovative focus system, featuring the Nano USM and VCM, delivers exceptional speed and precision in near silence. It's important to note that the VCM requires power to maintain its position, so slight movement when the camera is off or the lens is detached is normal, with built-in cushioning to prevent damage.With a minimum focus distance of just 9.4 inches, this lens allows you to capture compelling close-up imagery with stunning depth of field, thanks to its wide f/1.4 aperture. Whether you're shooting landscapes, architecture, or cinematic video, the Canon RF 24mm f/1.4 L VCM Lens is a powerful addition to your creative arsenal..
Product Features
- New 24mm L-Series hybrid lens featuring an iris ring for manual iris control.
- A Nano USM is used for floating focus and a Voice Coil Motor (VCM) for rear focus - great for video.
- L-Series level durability and weather-resistant construction for use in harsh environments helps ensure reliability and dependability.
- Incredibly minimal focus breathing - within 2.5% of the entire range in the lens alone! Further electronic breathing correction brings it to within 1.0% of the entire range.
- Air Sphere Coating (ASC), and Fluorine Coating helps to significantly reduce lens ghosting and flare.
- Wipe clean
- Imported
Product Dimensions
- 1.92
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Solid with a couple minor deficiencies
Low abberation, low coma, although some color fringing is noticeable in some situations, but is easily corrected in post. Very sharp, very lightweight. No depth of field aperture marks but ability to use DOF apps and manually focus with distance data on the screen overcomes this limitation. This lens is designed for the images to ONLY be used when lens corrections are enabled. If you disable them during post, you will see a severe amount of peripheral shading, and the barrel of the lens will clip the corners. Generally this isn’t a major issue, but for some specialty work such as nightscapes this can cause some post processing shortcomings. However, for this same type of work, the comatic aberation and astigmatism is about the lowest I’ve ever seen in a wide-angle lens with stars on the edges and corners depicted as round points of light, even when shooting wide-open. I agree with other online reviews that this is probably Canon’s best performing wide angle lens they’ve ever produced when shooting nightscapes of the Milky Way, and the performance wide open will improve nightscape exposures by at least 1 EV since you don’t have to stop it down to reduce astigmatism and coma. The AF capability wide open when shooting starry landscapes is also superb, eliminating the need to use focusing aids to achieve sharp stars. If you can achieve sufficient exposure, or don’t overly process nightscape imagery, then the lens corrections won’t be a problem. Given it’s tremendous performance on rending stars wide open, ease of focus, and light weight, this will likely be my new go to lens for Milky Way photoshoots over my very heavy, manual focus, expensive german made lenses I’ve been using for that work up to this point.
Recommends this product
Customer review from canon.com