Canon RF 24mm f/1.4L VCM Lens

The Canon RF 24mm f/1.4L VCM Lens is a premium wide-angle lens designed for the Canon full-frame mirrorless RF system. This lens stands out due to its wide field of view combined with a very fast maximum aperture, making it particularly attractive for landscape, architecture, and low-light photography, as well as for videographers seeking creative flexibility. Optimized for Canon's full-frame mirrorless cameras, providing a wide field of view. It can also be used on RF-mount cameras with an APS-C sensor, resulting in a longer effective focal length due to the crop factor. Its 24mm focal length provides a wide-angle perspective that is perfect for expansive landscapes, interior shots, and architectural photography. It offers dramatic perspectives when shooting close to the subject.

The wide f/1.4 to f/16 aperture range allows for exceptional low-light performance and control over the depth of field, offering the capability to create images with a shallow depth of field. The optics includes one aspherical element and two UD (Ultra-low Dispersion) elements that help minimize aberrations and distortions for sharper, clearer images across the entire frame. Air Sphere (ASC) Coating reduces flare and ghosting for higher contrast and color fidelity, even in backlit conditions. A rounded 11-blade diaphragm enhances the aesthetic quality of the blur in out-of-focus areas (bokeh), making it ideal for selective focus techniques.

For autofocus and controls, a Nano USM for fast floating autofocus delivers a quick, smooth, and silent autofocus system, beneficial for both photographers and videographers. Its floating mechanism helps maintain consistent image quality throughout the focusing range. The Voice Coil Motor (VCM) for rear focus aids in achieving high-speed and precise autofocus performance while maintaining the lens's overall physical length during focussing. The manual iris/full-time focus rings provide manual control over iris and focus for immediate, tactile adjustments during shooting.

The weather-sealed design ensures robust durability against environmental elements, making it suitable for shooting in various conditions. An attachable rear gel filter holder offers the added versatility of using gel filters, allowing photographers and videographers to further experiment with creative effects and color correction directly within the lens system.

Product Features in Detail

A new standard for the hybrid age
A simple answer to impressive images and cinematic video. The ease of use of the RF 24mm f/1.4L VCM is aligned for both video and still creators to shoot with confidence.

Wider perspective at f/1.4 aperture
Expressive power for outstanding optical performance and impressive bokeh makes the 24mm field of view even more prominent and brings a wide range of themes vividly to life.

Superior focusing
Fast and quite AF ideal for video shooting. Electronic floating focus control with VCM and nano USM driving two focusing groups independently.

Electronic floating control
VCM (Voice Coil Motor) in combination with a Nano USM achieves electronic floating focus control. The high-thrust VCM actuates the heavy focusing lens group, while a compact, energy-saving Nano USM actuates the lightweight floating lens to deliver fast, reliable and quiet autofocus.

Focus breathing control
The RF 24mm f/1.4L VCM offers stable video compositions with extremely little focus breathing. The combination of VCM and Nano USM actuators, thoroughly suppresses breathing in all focus positions optically, meaning that this lens can be used for shooting videos with extremely stable composition, even together with a camera body that doesn’t have any electronic breathing correction function.

L-series design and reliability
Canon L-series professional lenses offer durability and robustness that allows creators to keep shooting even under harsh conditions. The RF 24mm f/1.4L VCM is highly customisable to suit individual shooting styles with a lens control ring, focus ring, lens function button, iris ring and rear filter holder.