CanonRF 24mm f/1.4 L VCM Lens

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.