Amazon.com: Customer reviews: Canon EF-S 24MM 1.2.8 STM

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I’m in love, it’s amazing

Reviewed in the United States on May 5, 2022

I’m in love with this lens! It has a great price, is lightweight and has a 2.8 aperture that really makes low light photography possible. I’m honestly stunned with how well it performs. It’s a great companion for my 18-55 kit lens and 55-250 lens. And honestly sometimes I just take the lens solo when I know I can zoom with my feet.

However, pay attention to how it mounts on. The first one I received was defective and was too tight on the mount (felt like it would break to put it on and nearly impossible to take it off). So I returned it, got a replacement and now it works great.

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Pusanggala

REGRETS

Reviewed in the United States on March 31, 2024

I bought this lens long time ago (April 23, 2022) but I didn't not see or notice the erased marking until I received the extension tube I purchased last March 27, 2024 that arrived today March 39, 2024 and while installing the extension tube I've noticed that there is a scratch on my micro lens that made me mad. This item is not CHEAP lens!!! It's $141.10. Since I don't have the extension tube yet, I keep it the box while saving some money to buy the said part but to my dismay, I saw that there is a scratch in my lens that may have some information on it!!! I was so confident that there is no problem on my purchase since the item is expensive!!! Please do check whatever ever item you buy online whether Expensive or Not.

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Book Lover

I’m in love, it’s amazing

Reviewed in the United States on May 5, 2022

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Doug

Solidly Built, Clear Photos, Excellent Wide Angle Lens

Reviewed in the United States on February 19, 2021

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I use it primarily for shooting the stars at night. The lens is simple (24mm fixed focal length), fast (f/2.8), and images are very precise, which is needed to capture the subtle variations of the stars. Although I don't use auto focus at night, the auto focus came out very clear in tests I did during daylight hours, too.

The first two photos I included are without any post-processing. Post-processing would remove some of the speckling between the stars in the night shot. The speckling is caused by noise in the camera from the long (2 second) exposure and high ISO (12,800) setting. The day shot is with auto focus and other automatic settings enabled. The third shot includes post processing, but you can't get a good final product unless you start with good images to begin with.

Now, all of that said, I also performed some very precise tests of this lens with the lens set wide open, at f/2.8. The tests used a field of very small white dots against a black background. What I found is that there is a very slight chromatic aberration for all dots, and a combination of coma and astigmatism around the edges of the image. In other words, I wouldn't use this lens for making poster-sized images with lots of fine detail around the edges. Not a huge surprise for such a simple lens design, but you get what you pay for.

In summary, no lens is perfect and this one has its quirks like any other. But the field was flat, distortions were low, and (IMHO) for the price it was excellent.

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CJ Garcia

Love it

Reviewed in the United States on December 1, 2023

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Just as expected. Another lens in my bag.

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chris

Great Canon lens

Reviewed in the United States on July 28, 2020

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This is great for a crop sensor camera. Good lighting. Excellent focus. I’m using it on an older Canon XTI and a T5i. If you are using crop sensor you need one of these.

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Andrés Díaz Ph.

Excelente

Reviewed in the United States on August 30, 2023

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Un lente excelente para todo uso y calidad de imagen

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Mel

Vignetting

Reviewed in the United States on February 5, 2024

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I like the weight and fixed focal length of the lens. A good basic lens. However on a Canon with a cropped sensor, I find the vignetting to be bothersome. I dunno if this is only a problem on cropped sensor DSLRs or not. I suspect this lens will perform better with a full frame sensor. Someday I may get a Canon body with one, but the price points remain unreachable for me. Oh well.

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