Canon 24 mm f/1.4 L: shortest FL f/1.4 experience?
Hi,
I've been looking at upgrading to a faster short focal length lens for night sky photography. My fast wide lens is currently the 20 mm f/2.8. I find the image quality OK, but not stellar, although no short focal length lens seems to have stellar (pun intended) image quality. According to the MTF charts at
http://www.usa.canon.com/cusa/consum...ef_lens_lineup
the 24 f/1.4L has similar image quality at f/1.4 as the 20 mm f/2.8 does at f/2.8, so I would gain 2 stops.
Does anyone have experience with this lens on night star images? If so, could you point me to some full resolution crops (e.g. center versus corners). I would mostly use the lens with 1.3x crop bodies for the near term. The smaller field of view does not bother me as I would do mosaics using something like 15 second exposures.
Roger