Scott Kelby uses a RF 24-240 a lot traveling. He could use any lens he wants to. He gets great images with it. He’s published more books on Digital Photography than anyone on the planet. Modern lens are a combination of lens an software. That’s how they are designed.
Thanks for this great video. I've owned the 24-240mm for a couple of years now and got so frustrated at the distortion in the corners. I try not to shoot wide open but some times you just have too. I do a lot of hill walking and it's a great lens, cause of its lightness and its vast focal range, so not having to carry 2 lenses or swapping out on a hill top. It's a brilliant compromise.
Thanks for the comment Peter. We all select lenses for different reasons and occasions. Your comment should resonate with a variety of photographers 👍🏼
If lack of distortion at corners is important to people, then they need to spring for lenses that cost $3000, not complain about ones that cost $700 and don't perform like $3000 lenses.
I hear ya. I think it would be safe to say that most people want the best lens for the lowest price and sometimes you can find those magic nuggets, but they are few and far between so yes, I agree that you have to step up in price sometimes to get higher quality glass.
I recently bought this lens and am was starting to panic watching some very critical video reviews this afternoon. Happy to hear some positives of this sense once you move in beyond 24mm. Nice video, thank you.
I love that you addressed the issue so it would be a non-issue. That’s what make a good photographer. I’m also sceptical of super zooms that’s why I end up lugging heavy Canon L and Nikon Gold Ring Lenses. But I really want an all purpose lens that can do it all. I will give this a try. Thanks!
Thanks a bunch for the comment. Yes, I’m with you on having a single lens to rule them all, but i certainly love a good prime! I’m a glutton for punishment and often carry way more glass than I need.
The first night of my Beginning Photography Class one of the first rules mentioned is everything in photography is a trade off. The laws of physical optics tell the designers something has to give at one end or the other in trying to make a zoom that covers a wide number of focal lengths. It's also a given that human nature wants us to have the same quality in a basic lens that might be found in a Canon L. The other problem is for some reason Canon shooters don't us the lens correction in DPP, the only correction that is based on the exact Canon algorithm. Even then, probably perfection won't be reached. The reality is that most photographers using a lens of this type will only be shooting in JPEG. I've found that Google Photos is the best direction for the JPEG shooter to try editing. It's free and keeps getting more powerful with each update. Snapseed, another free app from Google, is more advanced, but allows users to do some surprising edits with JPEG images not possible in Photoshop.
Thanks for the comment and great editing suggestions. DPP could be great if it was updated more often but the lack of interest might keep the software from advancing. That being said, you are right that DPP has proprietary options for Canon shooters.
The lens correction of the CRAW's in Affinity Photo is terrific. The photos at 240mm on this lens don't look much different than my Sigma 100-400 Contemporary.
The lens was designed to use corrections. Affinity Photo applies the corrections without my asking. I do also get so tired of listening to people complain that my $700 lens doesn’t perform like a much larger(only uses part of the lens in the center) $3000 lens, and that you have to print to 20 x 30 inches to begin to see what they can see in pixel peeking. At 13 x 19, I see a beautiful photo.
Agreed, these lenses from Canon Rf now all are designed to use corrections, that's how they keep the size down. Some very new lenses are behaving exactly the same. The raws need to be edited with corrections applied, this is one of those that pushes engineering limits and it relielies on corrections.
I couldn't afford the RF 24-104mm F4 to pair with my RP. So, I chose this 24-240 over the 24-104mm F4-7.1 kit lens. Now, it is my traveling lens. It is suitable for a hobbyist like me.
I have this lens. Yes, it is not perfect. However, it is sharp and bokeh is not terrible. Frankly speaking, this is not a full frame lens thru the whole zoom range - depending upon zoom settings and distances to subject image megapixels may be substantially less than the full sensor resolution. I bought my lens for less than 400 USD. For this price I can tolerate the deficiencies. I would never buy this lens for 1000 USD.
Early comments and reviews of this lens mentioned quite a lot of copies that had to be returned, but I'm wondering if Canon has now improved their QC so that this is no longer an issue. I think I'll be buying one very soon. I recently looked at a s/h EF 28-300 but was not impressed with the size, weight and IQ.
It's a great talking point and you certainly can do that, especially if you are shooting jpg only, so you have the corrections baked into the image. But since I predominantly shoot RAW and edit all my images, I like to start from a base of non corrections, so I can learn from the image and the composition. So, bottom line is you can make adjustments in camera if the lens is compatible with in-camera lens correction software. Thanks for the discussion!
In the photos you can see "correction" here ALSO means the correction simply cuts of a fair bit of the image sides, I gues to get rid of the completely back corners, which cannot be corrected, since there is no optical light information to correct in the first place. It s at a level that you should take that into account when composing. When you would have corrected the backpack pic, you would have partly be cut out of the frame!! Why not show that? How many pixel of my full frame sensor I do actually loose? And why everybody, after years pf pixel peeping and reviewing lenses very strict on optical performance, we now move into a mode "this is what to be expected"? That seems so unfair and need to be feeback looped on all lenses. I use the Tamron 18-400 on the cropped platform and I love it. And it does have optical challenges, but things that can actually be corrected, not simply cut off. No. Sorry for this. Canon needs to up its game and can learn from megazoom specialists like Sigma and Tamron. For the R8 playform I stick to the 24-70 and 70-200 2.8 and 60-600 R mount adapted DSLR Sigmas. And for snapshots I use the 24-105 4-7.1 (!!) for outside snapshots. For that last range, Canon really should up it s game.
You bring up a lot of great points. I think in general technology always ups it game over the years, and the difference between higher and lower end lenses, in terms of price can greatly differ in quality, but sometimes you can find a gem of a system that work wonderfully outside of the product line that one would shoot. Again, thanks so much for the considerate comment, I appreciate it.
Hi guys, I bought this lens a few months ago in January 2083. I've got a converter for my Canon X78 AI Autocamera but there's no lens correction profiles for this 40 year old lens. What a piece of crap!
