Canon 40mm f/2.8 STM sample shots

[DavidEccleston]

Out of all the people I know who have DSLRs, the vast majority of them have XTIs with kit lenses. I have not been able to convince any of them to invest in even the 50mm f/1.8. The XSI introduced the IS kit lens with improved optics. These are people happy with the OLD non-IS extra-blurry kit lens. I'm not sure why they bothered to get SLRs.

For the few who actually invest in quality glass, I expect the cheap price and high quality optics will result in many purchases.

[Dr Croubie]

A mate of mine got a 550D (with the IS kit lens at least), after borrowing my 50/1.8 for about half an hour he was convinced to buy one.
Even wide-open he's happy enough with the results, but then he uses it like me, only for night/gig/indoors shots, where it's a choice between 50@1.8, kit lens at 1/4s, or kit lens at iso6400, niftyfifty wins every time.

[neuroanatomist]

I should have one of my very own in the near future. No syrup required.

[dsiegel5151]

http://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2012...d-they-do-that

This does it for me! Ordered!

[Richard Lane]

I definitely don't need it. Even being well aware of that, I still might pick one up just for the heck of it.

I kind of feel the same way.., I don't need one, but I want one!

Pretty Impressive Images for $199!

[canonclix]

Thanks for the posts on this lens...I just had to run out to Best Buy and get one over lunch hour!

My very non-scientific comparison shots - as everyone has said, this is a great little lens. Using a lowly 60D, I am really impressed. (have also used the 50 f1.8 and 35 f2.0...the 40 f2.8 is much better IMO so far).

EF40 f/2.8 stm: 40mm 1/1250 @ f/4.0 ISO 100


EF50 f/1.4: 50mm 1/1000 @ f/4.0 ISO 100


EF24-105 f/4L : 40mm 1/1000 @ f/4.0 ISO 100


EF-S 17-55 F/2.8: 42mm 1/1000 @ f/4.0 ISO 100




EF40 2.8 @ 2.8


EF70-200 2.8ii L @ 70mm, 2.8


If you are looking for reasons to buy this lens here are a few:
- $199 body cap - that can actually take (great) pictures.
- Can be carried in your pocket (the lens, not the camera!)
- Get people to laugh at your camera while you take their picture - no "cheese" needed.
- You can actually walk into Best Buy and get one.
- Hardly any glass to attract dust.

[Agilulfo]

- Get people to laugh at your camera while you take their picture - no "cheese" needed.

:-)

Anyway, for those who don't need a lens such small, there is the 50mm f/1.8 II, a little faster and half of the price. If someone is interested, I could post a comparison between the 100$ Canon f/1.8 and a 1.300$ Zeiss 50mm Makro-Planar f/2.0.

[Dave Throgmartin]

...Using a lowly 60D...

c'mon the 60D isn't that bad!

[HDNitehawk]

I just looked at the ISO charts, chocked down a bit it looks very good.

At $199 why even bother with a filter.

[Dr Croubie]

Shot a roll of film on the EOS 3 over the weekend, nothing but the shortyforty attached. Damn that makes a fine street camera, with the eye-control focus it's more "Point and Shoot" than even the fanciest P&S cameras today.
Got the film developed and scanned it last night, thought i'd share this one. Still a work in progress, i'm not sure how I should treat my film shots. For a start, it was expired no-name-i've-heard-of iso200 colour film. Then I left it near my log-fire for a month, to expire it even more, before I shot it. I was surprised that I got anything useful at all, actually.
So, scanned, bit of USM to make up for scanning, the blues were half the strength of the other colours so boosted them up (still a bit of yellowing left). Bit of contrast curving, then saturated the Yellow, Red, Orange, and Green a bit to bring up the streamers.
I might go and re-edit it again later, but still not bad I reckon (although your definition of 'bad' may differ from mine, it's definitely 'fun')