Canon EF 40mm f/2.8 STM

Zitat: - Auflösung: 80,03 % - Verzeichnung: 100 % - Vignettierung: 96,96% - Haptik: 70 %

Zitat: The Canon EF 40mm f/2.8 STM is an appealingly simple, compact and capable lens that´s equally at home on an APS-C or full-frame DSLR camera. It´s also very cheap, making it a worthy addition to any EOS user´s camera bag. Despite it´s mostly plastic construction and affordable price, the Canon EF 40mm f/2.8 STM build quality is reassuringly good, certainly better than some of Canon´s 50mm primes. It´s a great match for either a full-frame Canon DSLR like the EOS 6D or an APS-C body like the 700D that we tested it with, where the focal length changes to 64mm. Auto-focusing is perhaps this lens´ Achilles heel. It´s quiet but not especially quick, especially in Live View mode. For video shooters, though, the STM motor is appealingly smooth and quiet, although not fast enough to keep up with fast-moving subjects. The ability to instantly manually override the AF system via the focus ring if required is a nice touch, and we didn´t really notice or mind that the focusing ring is electronically-driven. Image quality is generally very good. Chromatic aberrations are well controlled, geometric distortion is impressively low, and the Super Spectra coatings successfully prevent contrast loss attributable to flare. The only real optical issues are some obvious corner shading at the maximum aperture on a full-frame body, and a lack of critical edge sharpness between f/2-2.8 and f/16-f/22. Still, not bad going for a £200/$200 lens. In summary we can heartily recommend the Canon EF 40mm f/2.8 STM as a ultra-lightweight, extremely portable standard/short-telephoto prime lens for all Canon DSLR owners, at a price that won´t break the bank.

Zitat: Pixelmania Award Met het EF 40 mm/F2,8 STM objectief heeft Canon een heerlijk compact en licht pancake-objectief op de markt gebracht, dat op het gebied van scherpte en contrast prima presteert. Het objectief stelt geruisloos scherp en is dan ook ideaal voor reportage- en straatfotografie. Vooral in combinatie met de nieuwe EOS 100D heeft men een heerlijk lichte en compacte set in handen. Het Canon EF 40 mm/F2,8 STM objectief heeft een adviesprijs van € 279,-, maar is in diverse (on-line) winkels al voor onder de € 200,- te koop. En daar gaat met de huidige cashback-actie die tot en met 31 juli 2013 loopt nog eens € 50,- vanaf! Op basis van de prima beeldkwaliteit in combinatie met de wel zeer aantrekkelijke prijs is een Pixelmania Award op zijn plaats. Aanbevolen!

Zitat: The Canon EF 40mm f2.8 STM is a very interesting addition to the Canon EF lens catalogue. The company´s first EF pancake lens, it makes even chunky EOS DSLRs look and feel much more compact, and can turn smaller models into something you could more easily squeeze into a large pocket. After all, it´s almost half the thickness of the already pretty compact EF 50mm f1.8 II. In this respect it´s a fun lens to use, but thankfully it´s more than a pretty face. The optical performance, as illustrated above, is very respectable even on a full-frame body with the aperture wide open. Sure there´s the usual darkening in the corners at f2.8 but it´s easily corrected in software and underneath you´ll find crisp details. Close the lens to f4 or better still f5.6 and the corner detail looks great. Meanwhile in the middle of the frame the detail is crisp and sharp even at f2.8. The focusing is also quieter than the basic EF 50mm f1.8 II and better-suited to continuous autofocus in movies, making it a more versatile option in this respect. The price is also sufficiently low to make it an attractive, low risk option.

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