Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Canon 24mm f/1.4 L Review”.
Hey, what’s up guys, it’s marquez from the mkbhd channel back with a video review of the canon 24 millimeter, f, 1.4 lens mark ii. Now let me start off with this. This lens retails for 1 600. I didn’t pay a thousand six hundred dollars for this lens and it’s not for any other legal reasons.
I actually got this lens courtesy of borrowlenses.com. You can check out their link in the description. Their service actually allows you to rent the lens.
Just like a library book, they’ll ship it to you and they’ll, give you a return shipping label – and you can have this lens for a week for under 100 bucks. So if you want to check their service out, that’s down below, let’s go ahead and take a look at this amazing lens. Now, like i mentioned before, this is the mark ii version of this lens. There was a mark one version, and this mark ii version actually offers improved image quality. So, as you can see, you’re looking at test footage of it right now and it is looking pretty sharp. If i might say myself now, something you need to know about this lens is that it’s kind of big and it’s a little bit heavy.
It actually weighs more than the canon t2i that i’m filming with itself now this might be nice in terms of balance. The way you’re carrying it or the way you hold it when you shoot, but it’s good to know that this lens is actually really really big. In fact, it dwarfs the kit lens that comes with the canon t2i that uh 18 to 55 millimeter plastic kit lens. It definitely dwarfs that lens, and this is just a 24mm not that it’s compensating for anything at all come on. Well, this lens is good at everything. L lenses should be good at so the barrel is made of a high quality material. The contacts where it connects with the camera are made of metal, and it has a very, very, very high quality glass inside uh that, and it also comes with this massive lens hood. I don’t know if you knew, but all l lenses actually come with a lens hood.
So that’s pretty convenient. This lens is so gigantic and so wide at 24. Millimeters that the glass inside you can see is actually a little bit curved uh and in order to get that full frame effect now, distortion has always been an issue for wide-angle lenses, but i found that on my crop sensor t2i. I really don’t get any distortion at all now.
Autofocus autofocus on this lens is absurdly good. Uh the ultrasonic motor on all the lenses are fantastic quality, they’re, silent and they’re tack, sharp at just about any exposure and uh. If you do want to do video and do selective manual focusing the focus ring is actually really smooth as well. I was enjoying the feel of the focus ring, especially when doing sort of uh in cinematic panorama shots and all crazy things, with the focus that i do so that that definitely helped that it was really easy to manipulate.
Overall, this lens is really good for a youtuber to rent because number one, it’s a wide angle lens. So i can sit here in my room and almost be able to touch the camera, and it appears that it’s a pretty wide angle so great for indoors and number two. This is an f 1.4 lens. It lets in a massive amount of light. The iris is absolutely gigantic, and it’s high quality glass, so you’re going to be able to get in in dim situations and shoot with still a shallow depth of field.
I absolutely love shooting at f 1.4. I reviewed a sigma lens at f 1.4. Not too long ago, you can check that out, and i, like this lens for just the same reason, absolutely excellent wide aperture you can even film like i am right now with no studio lights. So what would i rate this lens out of 10 well for image? Quality, this gets a 9 out of 10 only because it does get a little bit soft at wide angles and on a full frame body. This will be a tiny bit. Distorted, build quality gets a 10 out of 10, so overall, this lens gets a nine and a half. I’D say this is really close to what you’d get for the price.
The price you pay, if you pay full price, isn’t really worth it, but borrowing this lens you’re definitely going to be impressed with the quality you get out of it. If you’re looking for more video quality tests of this 24 millimeter, f 1.4 l series lens. Besides the one you’re watching right now, you can also view a pair of link software right here of videos that i’ve shot with this lens as well, so definitely great quality lens, i can’t say quality is i’ve said this is a great quality lens like 12 times In this article, but you get the point thanks for watching this video review, guys and i’ll talk to you guys the next one mkbhd signing out peace, what you .