Small and sharp

After taking this on a few trips and tests I can say this is the sharpest lens I have. Not as cheap as nifty-fifty, of course, but better built and totally worth it.

It is basically a cap for your camera, so if you are going somewhere with not much of a room in your bag, take your camera with this lens.

24mm on crop acts as 38mm on FF. It is possible to take city photos. I had it in London city with me. Had to use my feet often to zoom, and sometimes angle was too narrow. But mostly it is usable as it doesn't distort the picture as ultra-wide lenses.

Sharpness is surprisingly excellent at 5.6. I took a picture naked trees in winter, looking straight up - from corner to corner excellent sharpness. Unlike my 10-18 STM. In pictures of brick buildings I can count every brick of a house which is 100m away from me. Amazing!

Bokeh is acceptable, but of course not as great as on 50mm 1.8.

Autofocus is not exactly as fast and quiet as on 10-18 STM, maybe because it has weaker and slower motor in that small body.

Overall, very satisfied, not going to sell this as long as I have crop sensor camera.

beagle1 wrote:

eg01st wrote:

After taking this on a few trips and tests I can say this is the sharpest lens I have. Not as cheap as nifty-fifty, of course, but better built and totally worth it.

It is basically a cap for your camera, so if you are going somewhere with not much of a room in your bag, take your camera with this lens.

24mm on crop acts as 38mm on FF. It is possible to take city photos. I had it in London city with me. Had to use my feet often to zoom, and sometimes angle was too narrow. But mostly it is usable as it doesn't distort the picture as ultra-wide lenses.

Sharpness is surprisingly excellent at 5.6. I took a picture naked trees in winter, looking straight up - from corner to corner excellent sharpness. Unlike my 10-18 STM. In pictures of brick buildings I can count every brick of a house which is 100m away from me. Amazing!

Bokeh is acceptable, but of course not as great as on 50mm 1.8.

Autofocus is not exactly as fast and quiet as on 10-18 STM, maybe because it has weaker and slower motor in that small body.

Overall, very satisfied, not going to sell this as long as I have crop sensor camera.

OK, the 22mm f/2 is also small and sharp

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Yeah but EF-M is different platform.

I had one but didn't find the iq much better than my 18-135 stm so I returned it.

It is however nice and small and light and super duper portable which is what makes it a winner.

This is one of my favorite lenses.  I think it is quite sharp and much faster than the kit lenses.

mkphoto79 wrote:

This is one of my favorite lenses. I think it is quite sharp and much faster than the kit lenses.

I wanted to like it, but just didn't do it for me. I also don't shoot at 24mm much I've noticed. I hover more around 35mm.

I do love how small it is...I'm tempted to give it another go some days but I can't ever see myself using it unfortunately.

The 40mm may be more my thing but I have a 35 and a 50 so it seems pointless as well.

eg01st wrote:

After taking this on a few trips and tests I can say this is the sharpest lens I have. Not as cheap as nifty-fifty, of course, but better built and totally worth it.

It is basically a cap for your camera, so if you are going somewhere with not much of a room in your bag, take your camera with this lens.

24mm on crop acts as 38mm on FF....

uh, dont you mean a 24mm on a FF acts like a 38mm on a crop?  At least thats my math....

Herb Turner

Herb wrote:

eg01st wrote:

After taking this on a few trips and tests I can say this is the sharpest lens I have. Not as cheap as nifty-fifty, of course, but better built and totally worth it.

It is basically a cap for your camera, so if you are going somewhere with not much of a room in your bag, take your camera with this lens.

24mm on crop acts as 38mm on FF....

uh, dont you mean a 24mm on a FF acts like a 38mm on a crop? At least thats my math....

Herb Turner

No, because this is EF-S lens. You can't even put it on FF. On FF there is 40mm Pancake that gives you the same FOV as this 24mm on crop.