Canon Canon EF 40mm f/2.8 STM

Canon Canon EF 40mm f/2.8 STM

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Canon Canon EF 40mm f/2.8 STM

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CA38568
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4960999845715
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0.5
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Canon

40 reviews for Canon Canon EF 40mm f/2.8 STM

  1. Sunnie –

    Great optics in a small package.

  2. msna –

    Pablo L. García

  3. Michael Gabriel –

    Piccolo di notevole qualità

  4. Pskyrunner –

    Great lens but expect some mechanical faults

  5. VA –

    Excellent Lens

  6. Jamie Moore –

    I’m using the lens on a cropped sensor, and it still in very sharp. It focuses fast, too. If I had to complain about something, it’d be the electronic focus ring. It doesn’t feel very tactile, and feels a bit floaty. But I don’t think you would use a lot of manual focus with 50mm STM; it doesn’t really do macro, and otherwise the AF is quite precise, even on my older firmware and hardware.Probably the first prime you should buy. Even more, if you are shopping for higher-end gear, let’s say you are looking at an L-series lens or Sigma Art, I would probably keep this as my 50mm prime and spend the money on a different focal length. It’s not that it’s better than some Sigma Art or Zeiss, all I’m saying is that it holds its own very well.

  7. Sam Holyman –

    Optically this lens is great, a marginal improvement on the EF 50mm 1.8 II (Nifty Fifty or Plastic Fantastic), nice bokeh at a budget price. In terms of build quality it’s better still; featuring a plastic body with a nicer finish (subjective I suppose) and a metal mount as opposed to the plastic mount of it’s predecessor, the sloppy feeling focus of the Nifty Fifty is totally absent. The focusing ring is far better and of more conventional design (see below though) but only works when the camera is powered up. Manual focus override is possible when in AF by half pressing the shutter button and then adjusting focus using the focus ring.For some reason the STM focusing motor isn’t as unobtrusive as my other STM lenses (18-135mm and 10-18mm). If using the camera mic for video work [shudder…] then it’s likely that the sound will feature in your audio. If the mic is off camera then you shouldn’t have any problems. Maybe it’s the fact that it makes a noise that give this impression but it does seem a touch slower to focus as well. Even with manual focusing the noise if still there as the motor seems to remain engaged, this doesn’t happen at all with my other STM lenses. These noise issues, for me and my use of this lens, results in the loss of one star.The focusing ring is a vast improvement over the wonky hard to reach one on the nifty fifty though it is level, or as close as makes no difference, with the barrel of the lens. This makes using a ring for a follow focus, which is wider than the focus ring, foul the barrel. The solution that I use is to carefully place a rubber band around the focus ring. Our postman uses red rubber bands so, from a distance (if you squint), my new 50mm could be mistaken for an L lens ;-)I’m not convinced that the fly-by-wire STM focusing system works accurately with rack focusing, i.e. returning to the same focus point for a given position on the focus ring. I will do some tests and amend this review in due course. Both with manual focus and Magic Lantern’s rack focus function.I have yet to fully decide if this will replace the nifty fifty as there are pros and cons to both. There is a snap-on focus ring for the nifty fifty that will engage with industry standard follow focus gears (search shapeways.com for ‘Nifty Fifty’), this in a 3D printed part from the US. I have ordered one of these anyway despite buying the STM 50mm. The eventual looser will probably find it’s way into my daughters camera bag.I would love the f1.2, or even f1.4, 50mm but can’t justify the expense. Either this or the Nifty Fifty make a great alternative for the budget concious photographer and videographer so long as you can accept or adapt to their foibles.

  8. E. M. –

    It’s early days for my review of my first fixed 50mm lens. I’ve been saving up for a while and am glad I finally took the plunge.My starting point with my EOS500d is nice pics of the kids and the odd arty shot but I’m not a camera buff and am certainly not an expert.The best advice I ever got from a friend who is great with lots of it was to use AV or aperture priority mode. Such amazing advice and this lens really impresses with that. AV mode allows you to use the incredible depth of field capability for some lovely blurring shots and compared to my kit lens I have the images I’ve taken impress me compared to myUsual fare.Overall really impressed by the sharpness and image quality, how that f1.8 allows such shallow depth of field, and how little I miss zooming.Really enjoying taking portraits too. So much fun when you have to jump around a bit more and play.

  9. Cheezeburger’82 –

    This lens is amazing, the autofocus is great and the blurred background makes the photo look so proffesional. Would definitely recommend!

  10. Yvonne W. –

    An excellent lens. It works on both my 7d and my full frame 5d camera. The images are very sharp and the bokeh is terrific. The build quality is very good. It’s made with high quality plastic and looks premium. The best part of this lens is size. I can put in my pocket and pull it when need be. Definitely recommend.

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