The Canon RF 24-50mm F4.5-6.3 IS STM is an reasonably priced customary zoom lens for Canon RF-mount 35mm full-frame mirrorless cameras that will not break the financial institution.It options 8 parts in 8 teams, together with two aspherical parts to assist management chromatic aberrations and distortion, a Tremendous Spectra Coating to scale back flare and ghosting and a 7 blade diaphragm which creates a sexy blur to the out-of-focus areas of the picture.The Optical Picture Stabilizer offers as much as 4.5 stops of compensation, growing as much as 7 stops when used with sure EOS R digicam our bodies which have an In-Physique Picture Stabilizer (IBIS).It affords a minimal focusing distance of 30cm / 11.8″ and a most magnification ratio of 0.19x, while utilizing value efficient 58mm filters.Good for household teams, portraits, interiors and journey, the Canon RF 24-50mm F4.5-6.3 IS STM lens is accessible now priced at £359.99 / $299 within the UK and the US, respectively. It’s made in Taiwan.
Weighing in at simply 210g / 7.4 ounces and measuring 9.4cm / 3.7″ in size, the RF 24-50mm F4.5-6.3 IS STM is a small and really gentle customary zoom lens.It is barely noticeable when used with a mid-sized digicam physique just like the Canon EOS R8 physique that we examined it with, as proven within the product pictures.
Construct high quality is sweet for such an reasonably priced lens. Regardless of its largely plastic development, the RF 24-50mm F4.5-6.3 IS STM feels stable sufficient in your hand, and it commendably has a steel mount.
The lens barrel extends by a further 1cm when the focal size is about to 24mm, being shortest on the 50mm focal size.
Word that this lens doesn’t have a weather-resistant design to assist defend it towards mud and moisture.
There may be an optical picture stabilizer built-in to this lens, although, which might be turned On and Off utilizing the devoted change on the facet of the lens barrel.
This affords as much as 4.5-stops of safety towards blur from digicam shake, growing to 7 stops when paired with an EOS R digicam physique that has IBIS, just like the EOS R8 that we examined the lens with.
In case you’re not utilizing the focusing ring for guide focusing, you may change its operation to be the Lens Management Ring as an alternative by way of the devoted Focus/Management change on the facet of the lens barrel.
On this Management setting, the ring can be utilized to manage sure key digicam settings (TV, AV, ISO and publicity settings) as an alternative of the focusing.
The Canon RF 24-50mm F4.5-6.3 IS STM lens has a reasonably slim fly-by-wire focus ring with a ridged grip band.
There aren’t any arduous stops at both ends of the vary, making it harder to set focus at infinity.
Word that this lens usefully affords full-time guide focusing even when AF is chosen.
In use the guide focusing system is just about silent, which makes it appropriate for each recording video and capturing stills.
Polariser customers must be happy that the wise 58mm filter thread does not rotate on focus.
Relating to auto-focusing, the RF 24-50mm F4.5-6.3 IS STM is a quick performer because of the STM motor, taking round 0.10 seconds to lock onto the topic when mounted on the Canon EOS R8 digicam.
We did not expertise very a lot “looking” in any respect, both in good or unhealthy gentle, with the lens precisely focusing just about the entire time, because of the very good low-light capabilities of the EOS R cameras.
The STM motor can be just about silent in AF mode, which makes this lens well-suited to auto-focusing throughout video recording.
There’s a petal formed lens hood (EW-63C) and a gentle case (LP1014) obtainable for this lens, however disappointingly each are relatively expensive non-obligatory extras that are not included within the field.
Focal Vary
The Canon RF 24-50mm F4.5-6.3 IS STM’s focal size of 24mm offers an angle of view of 84°.
24mm
The focal size of 50mm offers an angle of view of 46°.
50mm
Chromatic Aberrations
Chromatic aberrations, usually seen as blue or purple fringes alongside contrasty edges, weren’t particularly obvious in our take a look at pictures, solely showing in very excessive distinction areas.
24mm
50mm
Vignetting
When capturing JPEGs, with the lens set to its most aperture of f/2.8, there’s some apparent gentle fall-off within the corners, requiring you to cease down by at the least 2 f-stops to forestall it.
There’s additionally a considerable amount of vignetting evident within the RAW information, although, however fortunately the Canon EOS R8 digicam routinely and efficiently applies corrections to the JPEG information, leading to an appropriate out-of-camera picture.
24mm – JPEG
24mm – RAW
50mm – JPEG
50mm – RAW
Distortion
You can not really flip off distortion correction in an EOS R digicam physique when this lens is used – the menu choice is definitely greyed out and unavailable – which maybe offers you a good suggestion of simply how a lot correction the digicam is making use of!
Nonetheless, distortion is properly managed within the ensuing photos, so arguably the mix of digicam and lens are doing job.
24mm – JPEG
24mm – RAW
50mm – JPEG
50mm – RAW
Sunstars and Flare
The Canon RF 24-50mm F4.5-6.3 IS STM is able to creating pretty good sunstars when stopped-down to f/22/32, as proven under, though it’s fairly susceptible to flare when capturing instantly into the solar.
Macro
The Canon RF 24-50mm F4.5-6.3 IS STM affords a helpful minimal focusing distance of 30cm / 11.8″, with a most magnification of 0.19x obtainable when the focal size is about to 50mm (0.11x at 24mm).
Bokeh
Bokeh is a phrase used for the out-of-focus areas of {a photograph}, and is normally described in qualitative phrases, resembling easy / creamy / harsh and so on.
Within the RF 24-50mm F4.5-6.3 IS STM lens, Canon have employed an iris diaphragm with 7 rounded blades, which has resulted in fairly good bokeh in our view for such a sluggish lens.
We do realise, nonetheless, that bokeh analysis is subjective, so we have included plenty of examples under to your perusal.
Sharpness
With the intention to present you ways sharp the Canon RF 24-50mm F4.5-6.3 IS STM lens is, we’re offering 100% crops on the next pages.
