Re: I'm considering returning my EF-M 22mm f/2 lens....
Jayson A wrote:
I bought this lens based on all the rave reviews for it. It's sharp, works great in low light, bright f/2 aperture, compact etc...
The EF-M 22mm is a great little lens, don't get me wrong. I just don't think I can use it properly. Almost all of my photography is handheld and I just can't get a sharp image handheld with this thing. Almost every photo I take has some handshake blur in it. Also, I tend to take a lot of landscape photos so f/2 doesn't really work that well since a lot of the scene will be blurred.
I set my M50 MK II to use aperture priority with auto ISO and it wants to give me the lowest ISO possible (great), but it's choosing shutter speeds of 1/60, 1/80... but even shutter speeds of 1/125 are giving me shaky photos.
With my kit lens, sure I get more grain, but at least the IS keeps my photos nice and sharp.
What's the point in having a fast wide-ish angle lens if you have to use a tripod to get sharp pictures from it? I'd much rather have a slightly softer image overall than an image with motion blur.
Maybe I'm doing something wrong?
Return it. I have that lens. The lens I have now is a replacement for the defective lens an in-law purchased for me on amazon five or six years ago. The lens did not seat properly on the camera. It was such a bad fit the camera wouldn't fire. I was able to get it off the camera and sent it back. I later read this was a known problem, a manufacturing fault in a batch. Of course it would show up for sale on amazon at Christmas time.
I was expecting the lens to behave like an f2 on a full frame. It doesn't. So much to learn about smaller sensors. Still, I like it. I put a flat silver lens on a pearl colored camera and no-one takes it seriously. People relax around it and the candid shots are lovely as long as the light holds.