Canon RF 14-35mm F4L IS USM Evaluate

Introduction

Ease of Use

The Canon RF 14-35mm F4L IS USM is a completely weather-sealed ultra-wide-angle zoom lens with a devoted Canon RF mount that’s made from metallic. Communication between lens and digicam physique is offered by way of 12 electrical contacts.

Notice nonetheless that with the intention to take full benefit of the weatherproofing, you have to to mount it on a equally weather-sealed physique, just like the Canon EOS R5 digicam that we examined it with.

The weather-proofing provides you confidence that the lens will survive all types of various climate situations, whereas its sturdy building additionally provides the lens an air of top quality.

Tipping the scales at 540g and measuring 99.8mm in size and 84.1mm in diameter, the Canon RF 14-35mm F4L IS USM is a pleasingly compact and light-weight ultra-wide-angle zoom lens you could carry round all day with out noticing.

When it is set to to both 14mm or 35mm, although, it does achieve one other 1cm in size. It is truly at its shortest in size when set to 22mm.

The Canon EOS R5 used for this check is an excellent match for the lens, providing pleasing steadiness, quick auto focus, and full environmental sealing.

To connect the lens to the digicam physique, all you could is match up the purple line on the lens mount with the purple line on the lens itself, twisting the lens into place to lock it securely to the mount.

The RF 14-35mm F4L IS USM lens could be very effectively constructed, totally dwelling as much as the skilled designation that Canon have given it, as denoted by the “L” moniker within the product title.

Additionally, across the entrance of this lens is the distinctive purple ring which is discovered on all Canon L collection “skilled lenses”. Whereas this doesn’t truly do something, it’s there to point that the lens belongs to the very best potential customary.

The lens mount itself is once more very high-quality, being created from metallic which appears to be very sturdy and safe.

By way of options, the RF 14-35mm F4L IS USM offers a lot of the identical controls provided by among the greater, quicker Canon F/2.8 lenses.

In the direction of the again of the Canon RF 14-35mm F4L IS USM lens you’ll discover two switches. There’s one for transferring between handbook focus and autofocus, whereas one other means that you can change the picture stabiliser on or off.

This lens has built-in picture stabilisation which supplies you as much as 5.5 stops of compensation to assist maintain your photographs as sharp as potential.

Even higher, when mixed with the in-body picture stabilization present in sure Canon EOS R-series cameras (such because the EOS R5 that we examined it with), the RF 14-35mm F4L IS USM offers an much more spectacular 7 stops of compensation.

Three totally different rings are discovered across the lens. The biggest ring, discovered in direction of the bottom of the lens is for zooming the lens out and in. It has a ridged textured grip on it, which helps you are feeling by contact that you just’re utilizing the precise ring.

The zoom ring is marked with totally different focal lengths so you possibly can rapidly bounce to the focal size you’d like to make use of – these are 14mm, 20mm, 24mm, 28mm and 35mm – you might be after all free to pick out focal lengths in between these marked, too.

In entrance of the zoom ring is a handbook focusing ring. That is equally textured to the zoom ring, however simply totally different sufficient that it’s best to have the ability to really feel a distinction if simply touching the lens and never it.

The ring can also be roughly half the dimensions of the zoom ring. It has a superb quantity of give, making it not too free and never too tight – it’s simply the correct amount to make exact handbook focusing straightforward.

Guide focusing is completed in a conventional vogue, with the adequately sized focus ring electronically coupled to the transferring lens components, though there are not any laborious stops at both finish. Focusing is totally inside and the 77mm filter thread doesn’t rotate on focus.

With the RF 14-35mm lens connected to a Canon R5 physique, focusing proved to be very fast in most conditions. This mix is able to locking concentrate on a topic nearly immediately, even when alternating between shut and faraway topics.

In excessive low-light conditions you could expertise a little bit focus searching on the lengthy finish, the place a lens with a quicker f/2.8 fixed aperture would assist keep away from this.

The final ring the smallest of the three, and likewise has a distinct textured coating once more. This ring can be utilized for plenty of totally different features that may be customised from inside the primary digicam menu. You need to use it to regulate aperture, shutter pace, ISO or publicity compensation.

Alternatively you possibly can change it off so it does nothing. In contrast to the opposite two lenses, this ring clicks whenever you flip it. Whereas that’s useful for judging by ear whenever you’ve made a setting change, it’s one thing to contemplate when capturing video, moderately than stills.

Included within the field is a lens hood (EW-83P), which is straightforward to connect to the lens – merely line up the purple dot with the purple marking on the lens and twist into place. It’s also possible to reverse the lens hood for decreasing the general measurement when transporting the lens. This lens accepts 77mm entrance filters.

Focal Vary

The 14mm focal size offers an angle of view of 104 levels.

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The 35mm focal size offers an angle of view of 54 levels.

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Chromatic Aberrations

Chromatic aberrations, usually seen as purple or blue fringes alongside contrasty edges, aren’t an excessive amount of of an issue with the Canon RF 14-35mm F4L IS USM lens, besides in areas of very excessive distinction.

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Vignetting

With the lens set to its most aperture of f/4, there’s some gentle fall-off within the corners, requiring you to cease down by at the very least 2 f-stops to utterly stop it.

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Distortion

The Canon RF 14-35mm F4L IS USM does not exhibit an excessive amount of barrel or pincushion distortion, as you possibly can see within the photographs beneath.

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Sunstars and Flare

The Canon RF 14-35mm F4L IS USM is able to producing good sunstars when stopped-down to f/16 or f/22, as proven beneath, though the lens is not significantly vulnerable to flare when capturing straight into the solar with the equipped lens hood fitted.

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Macro

The Canon RF 14-35mm F4L IS USM just isn’t actually a macro lens, however it does supply a usefully shut focus level of 20cm / 7.87in throughout the whole zoom vary from the sensor aircraft and a most magnification of 0.38x.

Bokeh

Bokeh is a phrase used for the out-of-focus areas of {a photograph}, and is often described in qualitative phrases, corresponding to clean / creamy / harsh and many others.

Canon have paid shut consideration to this facet of lens use, using a 9-segment diaphragm with rounded blades for extra pleasing bokeh.

In our view, their efforts have been very profitable for an ultra-wide zoom lens – see the examples beneath to guage for your self.

Sharpness

With a view to present you the way sharp the Canon RF 14-35mm F4L IS USM lens is, we’re offering 100% crops on the next pages.