Great street lens

It's a very nice lens. Accurate and very sharp. I love it as my every day street photography default lens. The only one thing which disappoint me - Canon doesn't provide lens hood for this lens. Original price of this lens was around $[*]. Now it's $[*]0 and no Lens Hood? Of course you can buy it separately for almost $60 which is ridiculous to pay $[*] for a lens and then extra 60 for a piece of plastic which should come with it by default. It's like buying a lens without front and rear cap. SMH Canon Fail! I had my doubts about this lens first - since it is my first non-L lens. And usually Canon non-L lenses are very plastic and cheap. But this lens feels solid - not as solid as Zeiss 35 Distagon all metal tanks, but still very solid, nice round bokeh, smooth focusing ring.

It is possibly Canon's best all-around prime lens. On par with the 35L from f/2 and beyond. "Nearly flawless" another forum member called it. Good stuff.
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I also have, and love this lens. Its a lens that can keep up (or is it the other way around) with IQ from my 24-70 f/2.8 MKII. Its the lens i tend ot take ot and from work (on my 5D3) most days.

Not sure why anyone is surprised it doeskin come with a hood, most, if not all non L lenses dont.

It would be nice if the did though.

There are some perfectly usable 3rd party versions for around. Mine cost £12 and has no flaws in it, it even has the locking clip.

For street photography I've had a lot of fun with the 40mm 2.8 on a 6D.

George Spencer wrote:
For street photography I've had a lot of fun with the 40mm 2.8 on a 6D.

The 40mm f2.8 pancake doesn't interest me, due to lack of IS. Also, the recent 35mm IS has a faster aperture. YMMV.

l_d_allan wrote:

George Spencer wrote:
For street photography I've had a lot of fun with the 40mm 2.8 on a 6D.

The 40mm f2.8 pancake doesn't interest me, due to lack of IS. Also, the recent 35mm IS has a faster aperture. YMMV.

Ive got both, and IME the AF on the 40mm lacks the speed of a decent USM lens.

Although i don't do much street stuff (not in the traditional sense) ive missed shots with my 40mm due to the slower AF, and this is on a 5DMKIII.

Fun little lens though, but since getting my 35mm ive only used it once or twice, and only when ive needed the smallest size i can get on my 650D.

I bought the 35IS, sold the 40STM, and then just recently bought it again. Optically it is excellent, at least on par with the 35IS.
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