After using the lens of the camera, every photographer wants to experience the creative fun brought by different lenses to a greater or lesser extent. The price of wide-angle zoom, especially ultra-wide-angle zoom lens with a wide-angle end, is often hesitant. At this time, the e

Category：beauty

2025-02-28

After using the lens of the camera, every photographer wants to experience the creative fun brought by different lenses to a greater or lesser extent. The price of wide-angle zoom, especially ultra-wide-angle zoom lens with a wide-angle end, is often hesitant. At this time, the emergence of Canon RF15-30mm F4.5-6.3 IS STM undoubtedly brings us a good choice.

RF15-30mm F4.5-6.3 The mirror body design of IS STM is small and lightweight. Compared with the standard zoom lens, the wide-angle end of 15mm greatly expands the wide-angle area, while the 30mm end can take into account the daily street photography perspective. Next, let’s learn about the performance of this lens through our real-life experience, and see if the RF15-30mm F4.5-6.3 IS STM, as a people-friendly lens, can easily experience the fun of ultra-wide angles.

Appearance comment: Lightweight and accompanying

Before the real shot, let's take a look at the appearance of this lens. Compared with the previous large wide-angle zoom lens, the RF15-30mm F4.5-6.3 IS STM lens has the biggest feature of lightweight and portable. The front lens is not a prominent "bulb". The 67mm filter diameter can be conveniently used to use a universal circular front filter.

RF15-30mm F4.5-6.3 IS STM 15mm end

RF15-30mm F4.5-6.3 IS STM 30mm end

RF15-30mm F4.5-6.3 IS STM

RF15-30mm F4.5-6.3 IS The STM lens adopts an external zoom design. The lens is the shortest at the 30mm end and the longest at the 15mm end. At this time, the length is only 88.4 mm. At the same time, the weight of about 390 grams is also guaranteed to be light enough.

RF15-30mm F4.5-6.3 IS STM mirror body button

RF15-30mm There are only two buttons in terms of mirror body button, namely the focus/control ring button and the anti-shake switch button, which is simple and clear. In addition to the traditional zoom ring, this lens combines the focus ring and the lens control ring, which is one of the characteristics of the RF lens. Through the focus/control ring button switching function, the function of the ring can be easily switched while keeping the holder posture unchanged.

RF15-30mm F4.5-6.3 IS STM

Canon RF15-30mm F4.5-6.3 IS STM uses 11 sets of 13 optical structures, including 1 aspherical lens and 2 UD (ultra-low dispersion) lenses, which can efficiently suppress various aberrations and obtain transparent high image quality. In addition, in autofocus mode, the closest focus distance of this lens is about 0.28 meters, and the maximum magnification at 30mm is about 0.16 times.

The automatic focus of this lens is driven by a lead screw STM stepper motor, and the focus is smooth and smooth. The grip of this lens is very good during shooting, without the feeling of imbalance in the center of gravity. In addition, the RF15-30mm F4.5-6.3 IS STM lens can also be purchased with a light shield EW-73E, which can reduce interference caused by complex light source environments during shooting, and can also protect the lens.

Flexible viewing angle, easy to shoot indoors and outdoors

RF15-30mm F4.5-6.3 The focal length of IS STM covers the commonly used focal lengths of wide angles and street photography. Such focal length can be easily taken regardless of scenery, architecture, indoors, travel or daily records. Next, we will take a real photo shoot to see what the 15mm perspective looks like.

EOS R6 +RF15-30mm F4.5-6.3 IS STM

F11, 1/80s, ISO500

5mm end

You can see that compared to standard zoom lenses, RF15-30mm F4.5-6.3 IS STM greatly expands the wide-angle area and presents a wider perspective. The exaggerated effect brought by the visual relationship can be effectively used in creation, bringing magnificent scenery or architectural photos. The 30mm end is closer to the perspective of daily street photography, and the visual effects seen in daily life are conducive to recording and expressing what you see on the street.

Live broadcast and Vlog are free to deal with

Since RF15-30mm F4.5-6.3 IS STM uses a lead screw STM stepper motor to drive automatic focus, it makes the focus process smoother and more quiet. It not only has a smoother focus and focus transition effect, but also reduces the impact of the lens on the focus sound during video recording. In addition, its high-precision focus capability at close range, it is very suitable for VLOG shooting or live video broadcast.

You can see that this lens has a small and lightweight lens body that can be shot with one hand, and at the same time, a 15mm ultra-wide viewing angle can be included in the picture even when indoors. It can easily explain the shooting environment, and can also conveniently shoot and compose pictures after confirming the viewing angle.

Distortion performance: wide-angle real shots can be used for

of course, as a small and lightweight ultra-wide-angle zoom lens, in order to balance volume, various performance and even cost, there will inevitably be some compromises in other performances, especially the wide-angle end often makes people worry that there will be too large distortion and unavailability. However, with the advent of the digital age, features such as distortion can be easily solved by in-machine correction and later adjustment, allowing us to enjoy both compactness and high image quality.

EOS R6 +RF15-30mm F4.5-6.3 IS STM

F22, 1/80s, ISO200

distortion is divided into barrel and pincushion. It is most obvious when shooting some line objects. Relatively speaking, wide-angle lens is more likely to cause difficult to correct deformation, while lenses in other focal lengths are much easier to control. Let's take a look at the distortion performance of RF15-30mm F4.5-6.3 IS STM.

EOS R6 +RF15-30mm F4.5-6.3 IS STM

F5.6, 1/5s, ISO800

5mm end

In terms of distortion at the 15mm end, we took the objective sample when we first started to use it, but we can see that in the actual photos, the barrel distortion was almost impossible to detect. The picture is more of the exaggerated visual effect brought by perspective relationship, and there is no obvious impact on the picture.

EOS R6 +RF15-30mm F4.5-6.3 IS STM

F11, 1/80s, ISO125

0mm end

and the 30mm end has no distortion at all, which is in line with our expectations. Of course, since the closest focus distance of this lens is about 0.28 meters, there may still be a certain degree of distortion when shooting too close. However, when the relevant post-production software provides the configuration file of this lens, such distortion can be easily handled in the later stage.

anti-shake stable Xingmangkankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankankan