Re: To: Larawanista - Re EF 24mmL lens
Larawanista wrote:
Marco Nero wrote:
Larawanista wrote:
Dude, your 8th photo is CHAMP!!! Everything else is of course very good!
And I thought the EF24mm 1.4L isn't for astro?
I shot at f/2 (to eliminate some of the coma) with an 8 second exposure using ISO 2500. The EF 24mm f/1.4L II was recommended to me by Canon for photographing the night sky, especially with Auroras. I have not yet had the chance to test that out yet. But I suspect this lens will eventually be superseded with an obscenely expensive RF version before long.
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The really strange thing about this lens is that it Vignettes quite stongly on the EOS Ra but not the EOS R6. The EOS Ra is simply an EOS R with two modifications. The vignetting on that camera makes no sense to me, and it's quite disappointing. It can't be corrected and simply must be cropped. Or another lens used instead. Canon have not been able to explain why this happens and seem to think it might be "caused by the use of a lens adapter". Yet the R6 uses the same adapter and lens with no vignette. It's a bit puzzling to me.
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EOS Ra with the same lens (unedited) showing hard vignetting, even without a filter or a lens hood on the lens. Quite a mystery.
That's nasty vignette indeed. Thank you for this feedback, I have a shot at an affordable pre-owned EF24mm 1.4L VII and this is helpful.
If you don't mind cropping out the vignetting (WITH THE EOS Ra), it's fine on that camera. The interesting thing is that the same hard-vignetting doesn't occur with any of my other cameras.
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Don't be put off my my experiences with the EOS Ra camera with this lens. The vignette can be trimmed from shots with the EOS Ra but it doesn't show on any of my other cameras at all, including the EOS R6. Some samples below from the EOS R6 with this lens, including a Milky Way shot.
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As is typical with this lens, Coma exists when shooting wide open but disappears when stopped down. This is not really an issue for anything other than Astro at f/1.4. With non-astro subjects, the aspect of Coma relates to Lens Character and even the bokeh produced by this lens. Most wide lenses tend to produce some light falloff (soft vignetting) in the corners and the same applies to this lens. I tend to shoot in JPEG so the images are pretty darned clean, straight out of the camera - and any corner shading is automatically corrected by the camera.
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If you have access to a good copy of this lens (ie one that hasn't been abused), it's considered one of the best lenses Canon has made for professional journalists. Product photographers and automotive photographers also like this lens.
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EF 24mm f/1.4L II - on the EOS R6
EOS R6 + EF 24mmL II lens
EOS R6 + EF 24mmL II lens
EOS R6 + EF 24mmL II lens
EOS R6 + EF 24mmL II lens
EOS R6 + EF 24mmL II lens