Hello I'm Graham and I hope everyone's having a great day welcome to today's
video which is review of the new 32 millimeter
F 1.4 EF M lens for the canon eos m series of cameras - now it's a second in
the prime series that introduced by canon the first was the 22 millimeter
f/2 lens nice sharp lens on ideal for landscape as it gives you that sort of
28 millimeter effective focal lens now this one is the equivalent of 50
millimetres F 2.2 in full-frame terms so it's a nice general-purpose lens the
fact that we've got a nice bright 1.4 light gathering capability is ideal with
this lens and you see from some of my sample images shot at one point for the
centre to edge definition is superb you can't tell any difference really between
centre and edge and I can't see any chromatic aberration in the shots either
so when you look at the images from the camera you'll see it is a superb lens
and so it should be for the price of this lens in the UK is a pound short of
five hundred four hundred ninety nine pounds and that's folded in seventy
eight dollars in the u.s. at the moment now unfortunately like the 22 millimeter
lens this lens doesn't feature inland stabilisation so if you're going to use
it for video you're reliant on the electronic stabilization of the EFM
cameras so that does tend to raise the issue about jello and the fact that you
get a lot of artifacting when you start to move the camera around so ideal if
you are going to use this for video especially if you're using if a 4k video
with the m50 then you really need to lock this down on a tripod otherwise the
image disturbance through the kodak is just awful and that's the only way I can
describe it but if it's locked down on a tripod like my previous video that I
shot with the m50 and this lens it gives you some superb results there are image
stabilized lens is in the EFM lens so why canon didn't employ it in this which
has got a 50 millimeter effective focal and so really that should in my book
start to be loved at image stabilization even handheld
instills you're going to be using a 50th of a second to overcome any handshake
with a camera so really we should have an image stabilization and at this price
point as well I think image stabilization would it be a desirable
feature the focuses by fly-by-wire of course but that is responsive very
nicely to the change in position of the focus ring it's a non rotating lens so
if you do have square filters fitted to this if you are changing focus then the
lens just extends and goes back it doesn't rotate filter thread is 43
millimeter so you need to employ 43 millimeter filters or as I do I use a 43
to 52 millimeter step a ring and use my other photos from other cameras if I
need to use filters with this particular lens now it does feature a switch on the
side and first of all I thought that was going to be image stabilization but
unfortunately it's only to give you a faster autofocus speed it really meets
the range from 0.5 of a meter to infinity if you want a very fast
autofocus you put it in the full position then obviously the lens will
cycle from its point 3 millimeters all the way up to infinity no the lens
itself features a 7 plate aperture and you can actually see that shape in your
highlights if you look closely bokeh is very nice and smooth you see some from
some of my images where you've got high light in the background the rendering of
that out of focus area is very nice with this particular lens no it is a plastic
and metal lens as is most of the lenses in the FM range now so we got a metal
body metal mount but the front element is plastic now it does feature a bone in
it so you can actually put on a lens hood but it's not supplied out of the
box with the lens it is an accessory and Canon want 24 pounds for it in the UK
and at the moment there's no third-party manufacturers that I've found that have
actually produced a lens hood for this particular lens of them
as is so new to my mind at this price point we should get lens had an approach
word the lens to protect your assets so there we are that's my review following
now is the series of images and video shot with this particular lens on the ES
m5 and the video was shot on the ESM 50 just to give you an idea of the 4k
quality with this particular lens so as usual thank you very much for watching
please do take care and I hope to see you all in my next video goodbye for now
you