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I'm considering returning my EF-M 22mm f/2 lens....

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Risto456 Junior Member • Posts: 41
Re: I'm considering returning my EF-M 22mm f/2 lens....
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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?

Sorry if I missed anything, by not reading all of the comments, but I had the same issue when I bought a brand new 22mm for the first time.

Had been "testing" it for 2 months+ before deciding to send it over to my local Canon Service Center for calibration - turned out the lens was a dud.

In case of these lenses (at least in my case) I was told that they don't get repaired or calibrated, but instead service swaps them for a brand new one.

As soon as the replacement arrived, all of the issues I observed previously were gone; looking at your samples I'd say it seems to be exactly the same case of lens sample variance - get it repaired (replaced) and it will serve you well from then onwards.

Edit: just realized this is an old post and replacement already resolved the issue - sorry for spamming, but I'm glad you're happy with the results now.

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