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Kit Lens Comparison; RF-S 18-45 vs EF-M 15-45, Charts, Imatest, Design

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KevinRA Senior Member • Posts: 1,457
Re: Kit Lens Comparison; RF-S 18-45 vs EF-M 15-45, Charts, Imatest, Design
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chrisis wrote:

RLight wrote:

To say, the RF-S 18-45mm is a "better" lens in terms of optical clarity, although it's operationally less capable on paper (2/3 stop slower on the wide end and 3mm narrower).

Providing as I've personally noticed the samples out there from the RF-S 18-45 have more oomph, than the EF-M 15-45, in my eyes.

I don’t know about “more oomph” from the RF version, and I was always surprised by how well the M version performed. However the extra 3mm on the wide end is a HUGE advantage that the M version possesses compared to the RF-S lens.

That 3mm gets me to an equivalent 24mm FOV on a crop mount, as compared to approx. 29mm with the RF-S lens.

+1 - The 15-45's selling point (a decent copy) is the 24mm - equiv in standard zoom.   The only equiv lens for RF is the full frame options which are super expensive L's or reported by Chris Frost not brilliant on APS-C 15-30.  Or the large chunky 15-85 EFS.

The 18-45 RFS looks like a truly meh lens......  (18-150 becomes interesting for the wide zoom range, quite like the EF-M variant alongside a 11-22).

Hence 1 M6II has an important place still in my bag   Long live EF-M as a perfectly good small camera system, with likely access to good 2nd hand lenses for the mid term at least.

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