Nice compact lens which takes excellent night sky images, wide angle landscape photos, and is ideal for photographing architecture and people gatherings. Don't let the inexpensive price fool you! It's a very good lens for the money!

If you're after an own-brand APS-C format Canon prime lens, this is the only option...

Excellent image quality; Unique among APS-C lenses; Useful focal length

Slower autofocus system

I recently bought a Canon lens for my DSLR from John Lewis. The price and quality is excellent and the service was second to none. An added bonus is the two year warranty from John Lewis. I shall certainly buy from here again.

I'm going to say that this lens is pretty good can make some very good lenses the one thing that I was expecting from this lens was more sharpness for middle of the road performance I think it's a good lens but I have a tokina 11-20 which is much sharperso I think can and could have done a better...

Primarily a macro photographer, I wanted to try my hand at wide angle nature photography. The 24mm lens is absolutely fantastic, sharp, durable, and was very easy to get the hang of. Very inexpensive as well! I love the focusing distance- enlarged subject up close with a nice bokeh background.

Back in 2012, Canon introduced the Canon EF 40mm f/2.8 STM - a full format pancake lens. Pancake lenses have a short barrel in an attempt to minimize the size of the overall setup.

My experience of this lens is with my Canon 750D. This was my first lens purchase after my kit lens (18-55mm STM), and I am stoked with the quality of the images I can get from it. On a crop sensor, the 24mm focal length is roughly 38mm, which is an extremely versatile focal length.

Compact, Build quality

I bought this for my new Canon 200d (which I'm hating more with every passing day) after reading many reviews as it was a toss up between this or the 50mm. I went with this for the closer focusing distance and 'macro' capabilities as well as all round versatility.

I purchased the 24mm lens to take pictures (portrait type) of people and other things (usually singular animals or objects), as I wanted the bokeh effect (the blurry background when the object is in perfect focus).

Aspheric lens element helps you achieve a high level of image quality from the center to the periphery.