Canon RF 16mm f/2.8 STM Review - Worst RF Lens Ever?

This is my full review of the Canon RF 16mm f/2.8 STM Lens. It's a tiny lens and it has a lot of good in it, but there are some things that I just really do not like, which actually make it the worst RF lens that I have ever tried. That being said, it isn't all bad. In this video I talk about the image quality, build quality, autofocus, operating and more.

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Canon does an amazing job with their new RF lenses and the RF 16mm f/2.8 STM is also a very decent lens, especially considering its price. It's less than 300$ but the image quality is very good, but there are many flaws with the lens too. The photos are sharp, but without any profile corrections there is a heavy vignette and a lot of distortion. However, Canon (as well as many other brands nowadays) builds these lenses so, that they are intended to be used with profile corrections to begin with. This makes it cheaper to build the lenses and they can keep them smaller. This does cause the issue of losing a bit of resolution in the edges of the image, as the uncorrected full-resolution image gets stretched out. All of that being said, with the price of this lens considered, I think the images that come out of this lens are just fantastic. When it comes to image quality with the RF 16mm, I'm very happy.

As for the auto focusing with the Canon RF 16mm f/2.8 STM, there's really nothing special to say. It works and it keeps your subject in focus, especially if it's a clear subject like a person in decent lighting conditions, but that's pretty much all there is to say. It works, but it's not the greatest out there. It's exactly what you would expect to see in a 300$ Canon lens with an STM focusing motor.

The build quality of the RF 16mm is decent, but it's just too small for me, and I do not like the way you operate the lens. It feels a bit cheap as it is a very small and lightweight lens, but it still does feel pretty solid. The size and the weight just make it feel like a cheap lens, which it is, so this shouldn't come as a surprise.

The RF 16mm f/2.8 lens only hosts one ring and a switch. The ring either acts as an RF control ring or as a focusing ring, depending on if you have the switch set to the Focus or the Control mode. For my style of shooting, this doesn't work, since the switch doesn't make the camera itself go to manual focus, so even if the switch is set to the Focus mode, you'll still have automatic focusing if you don't turn off autofocusing in your camera menu. This is my biggest caveat with this lens.


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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:24 Build
1:05 Operating the lens
2:49 Image quality, distortion & vignetting
4:05 Flares & lens hood
4:19 Autofocusing
5:13 Close focusing
5:46 No image stabilisation
6:20 Conclusion & why I use the lens for every video
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