DPReview.com is closing April 10th - Find out more

Total winner. No-brainer RF lens

Started Mar 7, 2019 | User reviews thread
diness Veteran Member • Posts: 3,758
Re: Sounds Like You Never Tried the RF 35mm Personally
1

LensSodomist wrote:

LMOE wrote:

It's a 'meh' lens. Nice, but has its issues. No better, no worse than other similar primes. Priced right at $450-$500 USD. I think many are overly excited about this lens at is the only one that is small and a good "fit" with the current R series bodies. Shame there are no decent R bodies - yet.

What other non-L wide/mid prime has these attributes?:

  1. Fairly sharp wide open.
  2. IS
  3. Nearly as good as Canon 35L f1.4 Mark I
  4. Very good edge-to-edge sharpness across all f-stops
  5. L like rendition
  6. L like bokeh
  7. It's better than the EF 50L in most cases

I've owned all the EF non-L wide/mid primes and this one stands out head and shoulders.

I think you're right that this poster has never used the lens, but the other lens that stands out as having all the things you suggested is the EF 35mm f2 is.  Have you owned that one? Do you find the RF to be better?  I'm legitimately asking the question, no sarcasm.

 diness's gear list:diness's gear list
Canon EOS R Canon EF 135mm F2L USM Canon RF 35mm F1.8 IS STM Macro Canon RF 24-105mm F4L IS USM
Post (hide subjects) Posted by
(unknown member)
(unknown member)
Keyboard shortcuts:
FForum PPrevious NNext WNext unread UUpvote SSubscribe RReply QQuote BBookmark MMy threads
Color scheme? Blue / Yellow