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Canon EF-M 22mm f2 STM Compact System Lens
Ultra slim and compact, the new EF-M 22mm f/2 STM is the EOS M Digital Camera’s moderate wide-angle lens that’s small and light enough to carry everywhere. Its bright f/2.0 lens aperture works well with the EOS M Digital Camera’s large sensor to provide exceptional low-light performance, as well as create beautiful background blur in portraits. An aspheric lens element delivers high resolution and high contrast. For moviemakers, the EF-M 22mm f/2 STM utilizes a built-in stepping motor to provide smooth and quiet continuous autofocus when shooting video with the Canon EOS M Digital Camera. A circular aperture (7 blades) delivers soft-focus backgrounds and a short minimum focusing distance of only 5.9 inches (0.15 meters) allows you to get closer to your subjects.
Product Features
- Moderate wide-angle lens; equivalent to 35mm on a fullframe camera
- Builtin stepping motor provides smooth and quiet autofocus when shooting video
- Circular aperture (7 blades) delivers beautiful, soft backgrounds.
- One aspheric element and bright f/2.0 lens for low-light and soft backgrounds
- Minimum focusing distance of 5.9 in./0.15m allows you to get close to your subjects.
- Lens not Zoomable
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Perfect little lens. Takes nice sharp pictures with nice soft bokeh. I haven’t had a need to take out the 15-45 mm kit lens which came with my M50, since I bought this lens. The kit lens was so-so.. as to be expected from a kit lens. Since the price point on this lens wasn’t that high, I decided to give it a shot. And it has been totally worth it. With the f2 fixed aperture, the lens is so fast and crisp, even in low light conditions that you don’t miss the IS at all. The AF focuses fast and you get nothing but crisp pictures. It has delivered like a champ for both landscape pictures and low light situations with fast moving subjects.. like little kids.The nice soft bokeh that the lens produces is reminiscent of other high end primes. So, if you own a Canon mirrorless, this lens is a must in your collection.Now if Canon would only make more primes for the EF-M cameras!
super sharp and makes the eos-m almost pocketable truly an amazing lens (especially given the price) – i’m constantly surprised by the sharpness. the size is not quite pancake however it makes the eos-m almost pocketable.i went to europe for the holidays and used this with the eos-m exclusively. i love canon colors and this glass on the eos-m delivers.word of warning, however – it’s not an active AF/MF lens like the USM lenses you might be used to. focusing manually with this lens is very strange. the ring drives the motor by wire so you can’t do a quick refocus, not to mention that the size of the focus ring is so narrow it would be difficult anyway.all in all tho, a great walkaround lens (~35mm full frame equiv) with decent bokeh to boot.
Should cost 3x as much. I’m a wedding photographer, and I’ve owned, borrowed, or rented a lot of really nice lenses. For the money (I got mine for about $87 used from Amazon Warehouse), this lens is fantastic! The EOS M is a fun little camera that can take some really nice pictures, and this lens hasn’t left the camera since I got it. The chromatic aberration is worse than a Sigma ART lens, but it’s really about the same as the Canon 35mm f/1.4L. The bokeh isn’t quite as pleasing, but for this money on a crop-sensor camera, I really don’t think it can be beat. It’s even sharp wide open at f/2, which is almost unheard of for most of Canon’s cheaper DSLR primes.