Canon EF-S 24mm f/2.8 STM Lens- Black

Pros: My favourite daily-use lens for product photography, portraits, buildings, street photography and even selfies! I've stopped reaching for the 50mm and my 40mm lies unused. The 18-55 is completely forgotten. I suggest buying the camera body alone and this lens, and forgetting the 18-55, 50mm and 40mm. I use it with my Canon 60D. Despite narrower aperture than the 50mm, the 24mm needs even less light. I can get away with just adjusting the AEB settings by a point or two in low light, and not touching aperture, ISO and shutter speed, without flash. Close-up shots are, needless to say, much easier than with the 50mm or 40mm. I don't need a macro lens to photograph coins and watches. Since the 24mm has greater DOF than the 50mm lens, I can actually manage to take selfies (until my arm hurts from the camera weight)! The lens weighs and measures next to nothing, so I don't have to carry my huge camera bag along; it fits nicely with the camera in my daily handbag. Less noisy than the 50mm (I mean literal sound, not grain!), the lens feels sturdy and not as cheap as the 50mm did. It fits more securely than the other two. I have managed to take decent videos with this - better quality than my Sony Handycam. This lens and my zoom lens are all I will need at my level! Cons: No IS. But that's expected at this price, and I've had fewer shaky shots thanks to the lightweight lens.

I have been using 24mm lens mostly for landscape and group photos. It is a versatile lens. At f2.8 @24mm, it does cover a lot of space and also at the same time gives decent bokeh affect. Lens is good for taking room photos where there is not enough space. Very lightweight and silent. If you are confused between 50mm f1.8 and 24mm f2.8, I would suggest to get both as both serve different purposes :). PS: I am no longer using the 18-55mm kit lens after buying this one :) as the picture quality of this lens is far better than kit lens. Pros: Sharp photos Lightweight Faster autofocus Versatile lens Good for photography in room and tighter conditions Cons: Less background bokeh as it max out at f2.8 Overall good lens to have in the kit.

good lens anyone needs i can give it for 8k 9 oo 8 367 o 12

My favorite lens ever since I started using it. It's an EF-S lens meant only for cropped sensor camera bodies. 24mm x 1.6 = 38mm field of view. Which is a very good focal length for general, street, landscape & even for portraits with wider aperture f/2.8, doesn't create much distortion. The image quality is sharper than the usual kit lens. It's small & lighter but well built which makes it easier to carry anywhere along with you. The STM auto focus is very smooth and fast but the manual focusing is just not as good. At under 10k this lens is worth investing in.

Had a kit 18-55 and a 50mm Prime. 50mm Prime is unbeatable, but cant fit to a larger group foto or a casual street. If the camera cant travel backward to cover a larger area, have to compromise in the covered area. The solution is 24mm. larger coverage, enough sharpness, and also not expensive. the 24mm has replaced my kit18-55 and 50mm

Extremely sharp throughout all apertures . Not used much, but seems to be very good.

Great lens for wide angle and street photography.. Great and accurate AF, light weight and easy to carry.

I bought this for my Canon M50. It worked perfectly well and I was very happy with the picture quality and focus. Unfortunately one of the len elements had a small crack in it and I had to return it. Definitely planning to buy another one. I would give 5 ⭐ for the lens and 3 ⭐ review due to the lens being damaged.

Ho tirato fuori dall'armadio la vecchia ma valida eos 350d aps-c e ho cominciato a fare street photography. Però col battery grip e il tamron 24/70 non sempre passavo innosservato. Ho rivoluzionato l'approccio togliendo battery grip e sostituendo l'ottica con questa. Ora sembra una compatta evoluta. Poi per chi come me ha una certa eta' avere un solo obbiettivo fisso e non uno zoom è un tornare alle origini perché una volta le reflex venivano vendute col 50 mm, ottica alla quale questa a conti fatti si avvicina (24*1.6=38). Non sempre da ragazzi si riusciva ad acquistare subito una seconda ottica e questo fattore ci portava, nostro malgrado, a divenire "esperti" fotografi perché col solo 50 mm dovevamo coprire alla meglio tutti gli ambiti fotografici, avvicinandoci o allontanandoci dal soggetto. Ecco, questa è un ' ottica che porta a fare questo non potendo zoomare comodamente da lontano. A questo punto consiglio anche, ai giovani, di provare virtualmente il fascino della pellicola simulandola con pochi accorgimenti: oscurare lo schermo così da non controllare lo scatto, imporsi un valore ISO, qualsivoglia, e non cambiarlo al variare dell'illuminazione e, importantissimo, scattare SOLO 36 scatti, che era la misura del rullino. Avere a disposizione solo 36 scatti e, ancora meglio, scattare in manuale o al massimo in priorità tempi o diaframmi, ma non in automatico, può solo far bene alla fotografia vostra e allo spirito di chi poi guarderà quanto prodotto. CONCLUSIONE: l'ottica fa il suo dovere alla grande ed anche a tutta apertura mi è parsa avere una vignettatura contenuta peraltro presente anche in altre ottiche ben più costose. Per il costo tutto sommato contenuto non mi sono lamentato dell'assenza del paraluce. Anche lì questione di abitudine perché una volta erano sempre venduti separatamente. Un filtro uv lo consiglio per protezione agli urti. Dopo di che via, uscire a scattare variando orari e meteo con la consapevolezza di avere un ottica che se usata bene si presta a qualsiasi genere di fotografia. Buona luce.

Yo no soy profesional de la fotografia pero wooow lo bien que toma las fotos este lente, lo agregue para tener un lente diferente y me encanta, antes de comprar lentes revisa que lentes son comatibles con tu camara.

Decent quality

I mainly bought this lens to record videos indoors for my university courses but I knew it would be very useful for indoor photography to get in tight spaces where my EF 50mm ƒ/1.8 STM would just be too much range. I already heard it was close to the human eye in viewing so I was quite excited to take this out onto the street with my Rebel SL1 to double the tiny DSLR with this tiny lens. Overall in every situation, the lens has met my expectations. It's not as good as the 50mm but it's still very good considering the size and price. The EF-S 24mm ƒ/2.8 STM actually works surprisingly well for portraits and self-portraits in dim light or with the flash, similar to the EF 50mm ƒ/1.8 STM. You can get very crisp detail, hair pores, skin shine, and iris color. I think this lens is supposed to be like an EF-S version of the EF 40mm ƒ/2.8 STM, so buy this lens over the 40mm first, especially if you already own the 50mm. It's a little redundant to get all three so I suggest skipping the 40mm to save up for other lenses and then return for the 40mm. The wide aperture is great to have, even if it is slow compared to some other prime lenses, but I think this lens performs better in the middle to narrower range instead of shooting wide. Auto-focus works very well, at least better than the rest of my cheap lens collection. This is my fifth lens, my other four being the kit, a prime, a zoom, and a wide, making this more of my practical lens. The EF-S 24mm ƒ/2.8 STM will move in and out during focusing without twisting and this is one of my favorite features of this lens because it makes circular polarizer so much more convenient. It has no image stabilizer but I don't think it needs one because it seems fine without one given the small size, and to include one would push up the price and increase the size. The small lightweight lens is really cool to have, especially as my DSLR is one of the smallest ever made, so it can be a bit fun to go compact. I would've bought this lens long ago had I known how useful it is for tight spaces. There tends to be some slight chromatic aberration on average, so take a deep look at your images. The colors seem to be generally true but I often have to increase the saturation like normal. I never actually take off my circular polarizer, so I have no day time images on hand without it. The filter I use is made by Ultimaxx. My post-process suggestion, in Canon's software that is, is that you do not use Digital Lens Optimizer, Color Blur, or Peripheral Illumination, and start the Unsharp Mask with a Strength of 8, Fineness of 5, and Threshold of 2. Keep Chromatic Aberration on as I usually have to slide the red slider to the left while the blue slider is generally left alone or pushed to the right, while 100 is mostly all you need. This of course varies overall depending on situation variables but this is what I found works best for me with this lens. This lens generally goes for $120, but I paid $134 because the $120 lenses were sold out and I needed this for a project. The full price is $150. If you're tight on money, I think this is a good buy, depending on what you want to shoot. If you have no specific subjects to shoot, this is a great choice for hobbyists because of the versatility. You can probably make it work if you're a professional but I wouldn't know because I actually need to use this lens some more. I uploaded some of my pictures, half were images I had on hand while the other half I went out to shoot just for Amazon. My videos always look grainy so I need to learn how to take better videos, but it's a nice lens for videos. One suggestion I found online after making my video was to use Auto-Intelligent Scene and auto-focus for videos on high resolution. I was using 60fps but I will now change to 30fps. Auto-focus from what I found is not silent, so I rate the lens 4.5 for that, in addition to auto-focus not being totally good but the touchscreen makes it good.

Very good lens. Arrived quick too.