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Almost makes the SL1 into a pocket camera

Started Nov 19, 2014 | User reviews thread
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wrbluepearl Regular Member • Posts: 120
Almost makes the SL1 into a pocket camera
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TL;DR: Light, compact, well-built and a solid optical performer.

The EF-S 24mm is the second STM prime in Canon's lineup, and shouldn't be the last. The compact pancake design makes for a great experience on smaller Canon bodies like the SL1 (100D). (I'd like to see folding optics like the Nikon D3300's kit lens too!) The barrel is plastic, but it's nicely textured and feels solid.  The front optics look  lost in a sea of plastic, but this was probably done to get a 52mm filter ring to match the 40mm STM lens, the 50mm F1.8, and other inexpensive Canon lenses.  (The size of the EF mount also precludes making a lens with a diameter much smaller than this.)

It features solid optical performance, with no obvious flaws in color rendering, distortion sharpness.

Autofocus is not as quick as ring USM, but it's about as fast as the micromotor version you'd find on lenses like Canon's 28mm f1.8 USM. Manual focus is...odd - like there's a slight delay - due to the focus-by-wire system (this also plagues most micro 4/3 lenses).  Autofocus continues to be accurate in relatively poor light.

For the money, this lens is very tough to beat!  If you have a Canon crop body, this is a much better buy than the 50mm F1.8 lens for a number of reasons (smaller, better built, faster and more accurate autofocus).

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Canon EF-S 24mm F2.8 STM
Prime lens • Canon EF-S • 9522B002
Announced: Sep 15, 2014
wrbluepearl's score
4.5
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4.5
Canon EF-S 24mm F2.8 STM Canon EOS Rebel SL1 (EOS 100D)
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