Great always on 24mm lens for the smaller budget

Hello all,

I thought I'd share my experiences with this little lens here.

Background is me absolutely liking 24mm focal length. 20 mm is a "nothing real" focal length and 28mm is too narrow.

So I was waiting for this lens to appear and it completely meets my expectations.

Use cases:

- for walking around a light, little lens was needed with a proper wide angle of 24 mm

- I expect to shoot it at F5.6 most of the time due to subjects at these angles being quite 3dimensional, so proper DoF is needed

- I will use it for video, more wide open

- I will use it for macro around F8

- I will use it for other close up stuff, even people at F1.8

Findings:

- pretty sharp lens even wide open and to the edges, if you use the correct lens profile

- very sharp stopped down at little

- AF is precise and low noise (as typical for STM); very smooth for video

- best results so far using ooC or DPP using Canon's own profile

- lens is actually a 22mm lens where the profile removes the outer edges. I actually love this as for many scenic subjects the distortion is not relevant and I can make use of the free extra 2mm. Stopped down to F5.6 it is all fine.

- wide open extreme corner coma is strong, but I have to say I have zero use cases where this had any relevancy

Accepting the fact that inflation and crises have made everything quite expensive I do consider the price to be very fair (assuming >$2000 is the "high" bracket; $1000-2000 is the "medium" bracket and < $1000 is the low price bracket in the shrunken pro/enthusiast market of 2022).

So I recommend it to anyone wanting a walk around 24mm lens.