Canon EF 24mm f/1.4L USM Wide Angle Lens for Canon SLR Cameras
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Features
• EF mount; wide-angle lens
• Ultra-low Dispersion glass with Fluorite elements; inner focusing; floating system; full-time manual focus
• 24mm focal length
• f/1.4 maximum aperture
• Micro UltraSonic Motor (USM) |
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Canon EF 24mm f/1.4L USM Wide Angle Lens for Canon SLR Cameras Customer Reviews
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Shoot Wide-Angle? This is it.
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This is a specialty lens that would be hard to justify unless you are a dedicated wide-angle shooter.
Have you been hanging out almost exclusively at the wide side of your zoom lens? Have you found that there is just something indescribably perfect about how the 24mm setting (on a full-frame camera) takes in the world? Have you never owned a true professional lens? Are you ready for the real thing? This is it.
I've been shooting with a 24mm lens (or zoom equivalent) since 1976, when I was a teenager seeking to differentiate my photo style from the dominant preference for telephoto. I am so glad I did. A wide-angle lens forces me to get in close to the action, bringing an intimacy with my subjects and a liveliness to my images that "fly-on-the-wall" telephoto detachment simply misses. But if you've gotten this far, you already know the unique image qualities of wide-angle lenses.
The reason for getting this lens -- a dedicated focal-length, rather than a great zoom that includes 24 -- is because it handles its job so much better than your zoom on 24. Everybody will state how much sharper and richer the image quality is, how the "L" optics are truly amazing, etc. Yes, yes, yes; it's great. But, frankly, I haven't yet (2000 shots) noticed the image difference between my "amazing" 20-35 EF and my "truly amazing" 24 L. For me, it is all about the manual focus ring.
Zoom lenses have terrible manual focus rings. They are always given secondary attention by manufacturers to the zoom ring (Canon included). (Why? Zooming isn't so minutely critical, or something that you need in a split second!) And if you don't use your manual focus ring, stop reading. Go away. Buy a point-and-shoot. You aren't my friend.
Still here? Good. This lens has the smoothest, most precise, most ergonomic, most oh-so-fabulous focus ring I've EVER twisted. (And it focuses down to a phenomenal 9 inches!) You'll need that precision when you open it wide to its amazing 1.4 aperture. Oh, gosh ... Ever seen such shimmer? (My own personal experience with wide-angle lenses has always emphasized their incredible depth-of-field at f.22, allowing quick, sloppy focusing without worry; now I am experiencing a whole new wonder at the other end of the aperture.)
So, if you've been like me, and long found your zoom lens set to 24, you want to recapture or discover for the first time the sublime self-limitation of a fixed-focal length lens, and you can afford it (but how can you afford not to?), get this lens today, put it on a full-frame Canon 5D, and start producing a body of work that has a distinctive style in which all your subjects will have smiles -- in response to the smile that'll be permanently plastered to your face as you use this "best lens in its category." |
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Canon EF 24mm f/1.4L USM Wide Angle Lens for Canon SLR Cameras digital cameras, camcorders for sale