Canon RF 24mm F1.8 MACRO IS STM Overview

Introduction

Ease of Use

Weighing in at 270g / 9.5 ounces and measuring 6.3cm / 2.43 inches in size, the RF 24mm F1.8 MACRO IS STM is a small and really mild, wide-angle prime lens.

It is barely noticeable when used with a mid-sized digital camera physique just like the Canon EOS R5 physique that we examined it with, as proven within the product images.

Construct high quality is sweet for such an reasonably priced lens. Regardless of its largely plastic development, the RF 24mm F1.8 MACRO IS STM feels stable sufficient in your hand, and it commendably has a steel mount.

Be aware that this lens doesn’t have a weather-resistant design to assist defend it in opposition to mud and moisture.

There’s an optical picture stabilizer built-in to this lens, although, which may switched On and Off utilizing the devoted change on the facet of the lens barrel.

This provides as much as 5-stops of safety in opposition to blur from digital camera shake, rising to six.5 stops when paired with an EOS R digital camera physique that has IBIS, just like the EOS R5 that we examined the lens with.

The separate Lens Management Ring on the finish of the lens barrel can be utilized to manage sure key digital camera settings (TV, AV, ISO and publicity settings).

The Canon RF 24mm F1.8 MACRO IS STM lens has a reasonably slim fly-by-wire focus ring with a ridged grip band.

There are not any laborious stops at both ends of the vary, making it tougher to set focus at infinity.

Be aware that this lens usefully provides full-time guide focusing even when AF is chosen.

In use the guide focusing system emits an audible “whining” noise that makes it much less appropriate for video than stills.

Polariser customers needs to be happy that the smart 52mm filter thread does not rotate on focus.

In the case of auto-focusing, the RF 24mm F1.8 MACRO IS STM is a handy guide a rough performer due to the STM motor, taking round 0.10 seconds to lock onto the topic when mounted on the Canon EOS R5 digital camera.

We did not expertise very a lot “looking” in any respect, both in good or dangerous mild, with the lens precisely focusing just about all the time, due to the very good low-light capabilities of the EOS R cameras.

The STM motor can also be fairly quiet in AF mode, emitting a a lot quieter “whirr” than when manually focusing, which makes this lens well-suited to auto-focusing throughout video recording.

There’s a petal formed lens hood (EW-65B) and a delicate case (LP1016) obtainable for this lens, however disappointingly each are relatively expensive optionally available extras that are not included within the field.

Focal Vary

The Canon RF 24mm F1.8 MACRO IS STM’s focal size of 24mm supplies an angle of view of 84°.

Chromatic Aberrations

Chromatic aberrations, usually seen as blue or purple fringes alongside contrasty edges, weren’t particularly obvious in our take a look at photographs, solely showing in very excessive distinction areas.

Vignetting

When capturing JPEGs, with the lens set to its most aperture of f/1.8, there may be some apparent mild fall-off within the corners, requiring you to cease down by no less than 2 f-stops to stop it.

There’s much more vignetting evident within the RAW recordsdata, although, with nearly pure black within the excessive corners – fortunately the Canon EOS R5 digital camera mechanically and efficiently applies corrections to the JPEG recordsdata, leading to a suitable out-of-camera picture.

JPEG

RAW

Distortion

There’s an enormous quantity of barrel distortion evident within the RAW recordsdata – fortunately the Canon EOS R5 digital camera mechanically and efficiently applies corrections to the JPEG recordsdata, leading to a suitable out-of-camera picture.

Be aware that you simply can not truly flip off distortion correction in an EOS R digital camera physique when this lens is used – the menu choice is definitely greyed out and unavailable – which provides you a good suggestion of simply how a lot correction the digital camera is making use of!

You’ll need to make use of Canon’s Digital Picture Skilled 4 software program to post-process the Uncooked recordsdata, no less than till Adobe releases an RF 24mm lens profile for Digital camera Uncooked / Lightroom.

JPEG

RAW

Sunstars and Flare

The Canon RF 24mm F1.8 MACRO IS STM is able to creating pretty good sunstars when stopped-down to f/22, as proven under, though it’s fairly susceptible to flare when capturing immediately into the solar.

Macro

The Canon RF 24mm F1.8 MACRO IS STM provides a really helpful minimal focusing distance of simply 14cm / 5.5″, with a half life-size most magnification of 0.5x.

Bokeh

Bokeh is a phrase used for the out-of-focus areas of {a photograph}, and is often described in qualitative phrases, equivalent to easy / creamy / harsh and so forth.

Within the RF 24mm F1.8 MACRO IS STM lens, Canon have employed an iris diaphragm with 9 rounded blades, which has resulted in interesting bokeh in our view for such a wide-angle lens.

We do realise, nonetheless, that bokeh analysis is subjective, so we have included numerous examples under on your perusal.

Sharpness

As a way to present you ways sharp the Canon RF 24mm F1.8 MACRO IS STM lens is, we’re offering 100% crops on the next web page.