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This Canon Lens Brings Your Wide-Angle Film Dreams to Life

Chris Gampat
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08/01/2021
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There has been a movement in the past decade to kill the fisheye lens. It’s unfortunate for sure. So instead, photographers have searched for the cleanest wide-angle lenses they could get. One of the best was the Canon 11-24mm f4 L USM EF Lens. Launched in 2015, it was one of the company’s last and best lenses for the EF mount. That means that it will work just fine on your Canon EF film camera. Best of all, we’ve got one in the Rara Camera Store right now.

Welcome to the Rare Camera Store: a joint initiative of The Phoblographer and the wonderful folks at Blue Moon Camera. We work to bring you some of the coolest and rarest items for a great price.

A photographer that gets the Canon 11-24mm f4 should put it on their camera and head into the coolest landscape they know. Go for the most unique angles you can find, and have fun with them. Back in 2016, we reviewed the lens on digital. And here’s a snippet of what we said: 

“The overall image quality of the lens is something remarkable. Sure, loads of other lenses deliver more contrast and that’s a look I love and that is inherently a part of digital photography. But these images and the colors from this lens don’t feel digital. They feel a bit more like well processed and carefully exposed medium format film. Then there’s the sharpness; overall it’s very good. I’d still say there are sharper wide angle primes on the market, but those are primes. You have to expect that.”

But of course, we’re angling that you shoot with this lens on film. So how does it look on film? Well, the folks over at Blue Moon camera have kindly donated some images shot with this lens and Foma 200 film.

And here’s what Blue Moon Camera is saying about this Canon lens:

This Canon 11-24mm f4 L USM EF lens (serial number 20090675) is an ultra-wide angle zoom lens compatible with Canon EOS film and digital cameras.  It can be used on both EF and EF-S mount Canon SLRs.

This 11-24mm f4 is one of the widest professional lenses on the market.  It features advanced optical design including both super ultra-low dispersion and ultra-low dispersion elements for maximum sharpness and minimal chromatic aberration.  It also has subwavelength coating (SWC) and air sphere coating (ASC) to vastly reduce flares and ghosting.  Furthermore the optics have a protective flourine coating to resist fingerprints and smudging.  This lens also has Canon’s USM auto-focus system, internal focusing elements, and a fixed f4 aperture through the entire zoom range.  This is truly a gem of a lens and would be ideal in architectural or landscape photography.

This lens has hardly been used and is in like new condition with the original box.

Canon really, really worked to get rid of the distortion from this lens. Of course, there’s also the older 8-15mm Fisheye zoom lens. But this lens wasn’t that. If you want that old Fisheye look, go for that lens. Otherwise, reach for this one.

Should you get this lens and adapt it to the Canon RF camera lineup? Why not! It’s got that beautiful Canon color. Otherwise, you can adapt it to the Sony FE camera lineup pretty readily. 

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Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. / BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.
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