Canon officially announces the EF-M 32mm f/1.4 STM

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MELVILLE, N.Y., September 5, 2018 – Canon U.S.A. Inc., a leader in digital imaging solutions, today introduced a new EF-M wide angle fixed-focal-length lens, the EF-M 32mm f/1.4 STM. The EF-M lens is both compact and lightweight, serving as an ideal addition for any photographer shooting with an EOS-M series camera. Entry and enthusiast-level photographers who are passionately seeking to take their photography skills to the next-level will find this lens to be a great addition for portraiture, landscapes or general travel photography.

“As Canon continues to expand the company’s EF-M lineup, it is very important that users are provided the tools they desire for a variety of shooting situations,” said Kazuto Ogawa, president and chief operating officer, Canon U.S.A., Inc. “The new EF-M 32mm f/1.4 STM lens delivers great image quality in a compact and lightweight form factor, allowing photographers to capture the images they envision when they pick up their camera.”...

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wow. Really did not expect it to be this compact. Same diameter as all other EF-M lenses and just 5mm longer than EF 28/3.5 Macro and 10mm shorter than EF-M 18-55. Plus 43mm filter thread for a f/1.4 lens! Quite amazing. Of course it will be interesting to see reviews - eg. how much corner vignetting?

USD 480 is steep, but price will come down considerably within a year, once pent-up demand is satisfied.

Canon really has designed their mirrorfree "slim" mounts [EF-M and RF] really right and is now able to "deliver the goods" and fully leverage that advantage.
 
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Lens hood included! It's a L! :)
The EF-M 28 Macro included the hood (because it's required to mount a filter). This includes a hood and pouch. That's reserved for L lenses and select others (like the 70-300 DO).

Another break from EF-M tradition is the switch on the side – a focus distance limiter. Also, the metal mount seen in the first three lenses is back.
 
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It's a bit steep here in Japan at 72,000 yen (about $650 USD). It went from a "must-buy" to a "do I really need this now that RF is the future... and at that price?" I'm sure it will be a great lens, but I'll hold off to see if the price drops. Particularly since I haven't yet figured out if I'm going to sink anymore money into EF-M.

UPDATE: Wow! It actually does call it an refers to it as 'almost' an L Lens on the Japanese press release (I haven't seen the English yet).
 
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The EF-M 28 Macro included the hood (because it's required to mount a filter). This includes a hood and pouch. That's reserved for L lenses and select others (like the 70-300 DO).

Another break from EF-M tradition is the switch on the side – a focus distance limiter. Also, the metal mount seen in the first three lenses is back.

Ah, i don't own the 28 macro so i didn't know that.

I was surprised that there is a focus limiter switch, but i fear that's because this lens will hunt for focus a lot and that way you can at least speed that up a bit.

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The product pages of Canon UK and Canon Belgium say that the lens hood is an optional accessory. So this might be a typo (I think it happened with the EF-S 35mm Macro as well where some product description sites stated that the pouch was included).
Or maybe it's different for different markets :)

https://www.canon.co.uk/lenses/ef-m-32mm-f-1-4-stm-lens/

Honestly i don't care. Most of my hoods are 3rd party as the prices for Canons originals are rediculous.

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The product pages of Canon UK and Canon Belgium say that the lens hood is an optional accessory. So this might be a typo (I think it happened with the EF-S 35mm Macro as well where some product description sites stated that the pouch was included).
Or maybe it's different for different markets :)

https://www.canon.co.uk/lenses/ef-m-32mm-f-1-4-stm-lens/
We'll see. Since Canon USA's press release says they're included, I'm sure they will be here. B&H lists hood and pouch as 'in the box'.

Historically, hoods have been included with 'consumer' non-L lenses in some Asian markets.
 
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The only drawback for me is the "wrong" focal length - I needed sth. around 50mm. But: It seems they done a lot of work to make it really good IQ wise with 14/8 lens elements and kept it compact. Plus the 1:4 maximum magnification is magnificent!
Funny: It shares the same concave outer surface of the front element!

So please give me (us?) a ~50mm sister lens and if it has only f/1.8 but IS for a similar price I will buy it!
 
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Although this is apples to oranges, the MTF curves of this new lens are much improved compared to the EF 50/1.4 II or the first 12mm of the EF 35/1.4. Obviously it is much more difficult to do a full frame 35mm rather than optimizing for a 1.6x crop, but still this strikes me as impressive performance. Interestingly, the performance degrades when stopped down to f/8. Certainly a lot of aspheric magic at work here. On the crop censored M5 I have, this should be a good performer wide open as compared to the 50's on a FF body.
 
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Repeat from an earlier thread. Next!
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EF-M 17-50 f/4.0 IS

From my knothole, I think I could live with EF-M 15-60 F4 IS [quasi-L, like the 32 1.4]. An efl of 24 to almost 100 would be OK. 55 minimum on the long end. Definitely 15 (efl 24) wide. Such a lens would make sense if EF-M starts having more enthusiast-oriented bodies (although arguably the M5 with D80-like features is already an enthusiast camera). If ef-s enthusiast dslr cameras are being eventually phased out they will need to offer more ef-m lenses like this. Seems kind of inevitable.

(f4 throughout the range, please, NOT 3.5-5.6!!!)
 
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