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Sharp, nice bokeh -- great lens!

Started Dec 27, 2019 | User reviews thread
ZX11
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Re: Sharp, nice bokeh -- great lens!

medon78 wrote:

This is the kit-lens for my RP. So far I like it quite a lot - it is sharp already at f/1.8, only getting better when stopped down.

Bokeh is nice, has a little bit of character, but so far I did not in a single shot see something that had to be described as "busy" or wishing me to re-take the shot with different aperture or focusing distance.

Focus is not super-snappy as with USM-lenses, but that's OK with me. It is still plenty fast.

Some testers say, this lens would exhibit extreme vignetting. Well, looking at the example below (far from scientific, true!) I can see a 1.5EV difference in the corners between f/1.8 and f/5.6 in the RAW file. That does not bother me too much, since in-camera correction reduces this even further.

Price: in the kit with an RP or so the lens is reasonably priced. The stand-alone list price of ~500-550 EUR as of late 2019 seems a little high, though.

I think it is a good lens.  It seems to be thrown in with the camera a lot (my case) so harder to say it is good value or not.  Fun to play with for the money, for me.

But it does follow the demands that Canon produce some cheap RF primes in the f/1.8 range.  A 35mm f/1.2 IS L would be intolerable due to it's $2k price, size, weight.  A 35mm f/1.8 would be intolerable for some other reason (non-L level IQ?).  Fun.

It works well on a gimbal putting the EOS R focus mode on wide.  It is very light weight and sorta short.

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