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Excellent all-around lens!

Reviewed in the United States on January 5, 2020

This lens covers from wide (24mm) to tele (240mm) with excellent sharpness and color rendition. I know some reviewers have commented on vignetting at wide angles. This should be expected with a lens barrel as long as it needs to be for the 240mm end of the scale, but it is not as bad as they say. If you import into Lightroom, for example, and apply the standard Adobe lens correction for the lens, the vignetting almost disappears, and without losing much of the frame - due to the correction being applied for wide angle distortion.

Is this a "real" 24 mm wide angle lens? Of course not! It is really good, but if you need edge-to-edge sharpness without vignetting, you'll need a serious wide-angle prime or zoom lens. There aren't many available for the RF mount at this time, and most will set you back a lot more than this lens costs.

For what it is, a not-inexpensive zoom that covers the full range well, it is a great lens. It is not everything for every purpose. I still give it 5 stars, as I think it is an excellent buy for most enthusiasts. A pro would naturally want to add other lenses depending on needs, such as a true wide angle, a portrait lens, and/or a serious super-telephoto.

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RO Loves Gadgets

What the fringe?! This should not be an issue at $900.

Reviewed in the United States on February 25, 2023

I was looking for a good all in one lens which this certainly fit the purpose. Except the image quality was quite disappointing for a $900 lens. On average the images were sharp in the center. Many people mentioned having issues with barrel vignetting when zoomed out to 24mm with RAW files. I did not have that issue. They must have placed a lens hood on it?

My biggest issue was around the outer edges of the shot. In high contrast areas, the amount of purple fringing was alarming. Something I typically experienced with cheaper lens. I double checked my camera settings and default aberration settings and lens distortion corrections but to no avail, nothing resolved the horrid image quality. Needless to say, I can not recommend this lens for architectural exterior or interior shooting where lights and high contrast areas are common. Fringing almost always shots up along the edges and even LightRoom could not easily remove them. I am in search of a new solution to meet the all-in-one needs beyond my faithful Canon RF 24-105 f4 lens.

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Scott Thomas

Excellent all-around lens!

Reviewed in the United States on January 5, 2020

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Steve Olson

Wonderful multi purpose lens

Reviewed in the United States on September 27, 2023

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This is a wonderful lens. It solves having to buy too many other lenses for the new R series. If you use this and then the 100 - 500 mm Telephoto Zoom you have much of the sizes of the pictures you'll want to take. Only drawback is very low light won't work and you'll need to find something for that.

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LKT

Met expectations

Reviewed in the United States on April 12, 2021

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A very useful and convenient general purpose lens - avoids the need to deal with multiple lenses for the EOS R series cameras. Some reviewers complain that this lens has excessive vignetting at 24mm wide angle in RAW. This lens was certainly designed to use post-processing software lens correction. With this in mind, Canon was able to provide an extremely versatile lens at a fairly reasonable price. Of course, it's not an L lens but I've found its sharpness to be much better than acceptable and its image quality very good when used with the lens corrections function in Lightroom. It compares favorably with my other high quality lenses.

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Jack Dallas

Great Travel or General Purpose Lens

Reviewed in the United States on March 18, 2024

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This is a relatively lightweight lens with 10X zoom. Center is sharp, edges reasonably so. Wide angle curvature of straight lines at the edges and light fall-off are typical but automatically corrected in camera with lens correction turned on for JPGs and RAW files are easily corrected in post-production. Lightroom has a lens profile available that handles most issues. Some purple fringing in extreme situations is also correctable in post. See the included video for more info.

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Patricia A. Hickey

Great accessory

Reviewed in the United States on November 15, 2022

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This is a great accessory for an EOS mirrorless camera. It brings much more focus and clarity to my photographs. I have a longer field of depth range than I do with the lens that came with the camera. Easy to handle. Thank you!

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Jack Armstrong

Stellar lens for all but (maybe?) the pros

Reviewed in the United States on August 23, 2021

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Long story short: If you're the kind of person who just doesn't want to miss a shot and will use the camera's JPG 90% or more of the time, this lens is an absolute joy. The versatility is marvelous, the quality is fantastic, and you will capture so many moments perfectly that might otherwise simply be missed. I picked this up in lieu of a more traditional 24-105mm lens, so despite my primes and more dark/bokeh-oriented 24-70mm f/2.8 lens, this is often my daily walkaround choice with the 35mm f/1.8 in my pocket for darker scenes. And the pictures speak for themselves; it captures nearly every moment beautifully. Highly, highly recommended!

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Jane Smith

I LOVE this lens!!

Reviewed in the United States on November 2, 2020

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For what it's worth, I dropped my EOS R camera on a concrete floor a couple of weeks ago. (That will teach me to not carry the camera mounted on the tripod.) Luckily, the camera itself suffered no damage, but my 24-105 kit lens stopped working on manual focus, the stabilizer no longer worked, and it didn't fit on the camera as tight as it should. I'm retired and live on SS so these multi thousand dollar RF lenses are out of my reach. I saw the Canon 24-240 RF lens for $699. That would stretch my budget to the breaking point, but doable. I spent hours on Utube studying the lens, and was mixed in my feelings between the nay sayers complaining about the lens and sending it back, VS others saying it made a good all round lens. I finally bit the bullet and bought it. I couldn't be happier. The range is insane, and I couldn't ask for better quality in the images. Not only that, it's pretty light weight, and not bulky on my camera at all.

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B. Robinson

Love the quality of photos

Reviewed in the United States on February 27, 2023

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I mostly photograph sports subjects and i love this lense, it focuses well and the picture quality is excellent

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Steve O' Reno

Bringing 1 lens? here it is

Reviewed in the United States on April 3, 2024

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If I don't know what to expect while out for the day (or trip), and I don't want to lug around 2 or 3 lenes, I just use this on my R6ii. So it may not be perfect, but it's value is being ultra versatile 24mm-240mm range and 99% of any shortcomings can be automatically corrected in post for RAW and in camera for JPEG. And it's not high-priced either like some RF glass can seem. Maybe a good upgrade from the "kit" lenses too!

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Bardo Matrix

To me, the zoom ring is too stiff

Reviewed in the United States on August 25, 2022

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I only used it once and that was for a live music performance. I had been using the wonderful EF 18-135 on my 90D with the power zoom attachment which is wonderful. BUT I decided to switch to two RF bodies (R6's) and try pulling zoom manually with one of those rubber band attached handles and that did NOT work out too well! The darned zoom ring is SO tight that there was no way to make a smooth zoom pull. I think the whole RF line is great for stills but for video we are simply not there yet. If you are just shooting stills, this should serve you well but that darned zoom ring is WAY too stiff. I would much prefer something easier to turn that this one. IQ seemed to be OK on the one day that I tried it before returning the lens. Way, way, way too stiff IMHO. Happy shooting out there!

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