Canon RF-S 55-210mm f/5-7.1 IS STM
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BMW X5M Competition, 9:34 AM, Tuesday, 22 August 2023. Canon EOS R100, Canon 580EX II flash for fill, Canon RF-s 55-210mm IS STM at 66mm at f/8 at 1/160 at Auto ISO 100, -1 stop exposure compensation (LV 13.4), Perfectly Clear (now sold as Radiant Photo). bigger or full 24 MP resolution.
Spider (on Far Right) and His Web, 7:19 AM, Tuesday, 29 August 2023. Canon EOS R100, Canon RF-s 55-210mm IS STM at 168mm at f/7.1 at 1/320 at Auto ISO 320 (LV 12.3), Perfectly Clear (now sold as Radiant Photo). bigger.
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This Canon RF-S 55-210mm f/5-7.1 IS STM is a toy-like plastic lens that takes extraordinary pictures!
Laugh all you want at this inexpensive and ultralight lens, but when I looked at my pictures, I shut up and realized they were as good as my big L lenses and full-frame cameras — and these were all shot on Canon's cheapest EOS R100 body!
I got my RF-S 55-210mm IS STM at B&H. I'd also get it at Adorama, at Amazon, or at Crutchfield, or get it used if you know How to Win at eBay.
New intro top
Canon's first mirrorless APS-C dedicated telephoto lens.
Good intro top
This 55-210mm has no focus breathing at any setting.
Compact.
Useful zoom range.
Negligible ghosting due to its simple optics.
Image Stabilization rated 4.5 stops, or 7 stops if your camera has in-body stabilization.
100% U.S.A.-based high-quality technical support at (800) OK-CANON.
Canon RF-S 55-210mm f/5-7.1 IS STM. bigger.
Bad intro top
Nothing other than not having AF/MF or Stabilizer switches.
Missing intro top
No AF/MF switch; you have to set this in a menu or program a button to select AF or MF.
No STABILIZER switch; you have to set this in a menu or program a button to select AF or MF.
No always-active manual-focus override unless you set that in a menu.
Mounting index dot not raised so it can't be found by feel in the dark.
No case included.
No hood included.
No focus or depth-of-field scales.
Specifications top
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I got my RF-S 55-210mm IS STM at B&H. I'd also get it at Adorama, at Amazon, or at Crutchfield, or get it used if you know How to Win at eBay.
Camera & Extender Compatibility specifications top
This lens only works on Canon's EOS-R series of mirrorless cameras.
It won't work with any teleconverters or extenders.It won't fit on, and cannot be adapted to, any DSLR because a DSLR has too much distance between its sensor and its lens mount flange.
Name specifications top
Canon calls this the RF-S 55-210mm F5-7.1 IS STM:
RF: Works only on Canon's EOS-R Mirrorless cameras.
-S: Only covers APS-C, not full-frame (works fine on full-frame cameras, but they automatically crop to APS-C).
IS: Image Stabilization.
STM: STepper (autofocus) Motor.
Optics specifications top
Canon RF-S 55-210mm Internal Optical Construction. UD and Aspherical elements. IS section.
11 elements in 8 groups. The rear element looks like an optical flat to keep dust and fingers out of the lens, so it might really be 10 elements in 7 groups.
2 UD extra-low dispersion elements, which help reduce secondary axial chromatic aberration.
1 Aspherical element.
Super Spectra multicoating.
Diaphragm specifications top
Canon RF-S 55-210mm f/5-7.1 IS STM. bigger.
7 rounded blades.
Electronically actuated.
Stops down to f/22 ～ f/32.
Filters specifications top
Plastic 55mm filter thread.
Coverage specifications top
APS-C only.
Focal Length specifications top
55-210mm.
When used on an APS-C camera, it sees the same angle of view as a 90-340 mm lens sees when used on a full-frame or 35mm camera.
See also Crop Factor.
Angles of View (on APS-C) specifications top
27⅚º ～ 7½º diagonal.
23⅓º ～ 6⅙º horizontal.
15⅔º ～ 4º vertical.
Autofocus specifications top
STepper Motor (STM).
No external movement as focussed, so no air or dust is sucked in.
Focus Scale specifications top
No.
Infinity Focus Stop specifications top
No.
You have to focus somehow to get precise focus at infinity, just like at every other distance.
Depth of Field Scale specifications top
No.
Not on lens, but may be displayed in-camera.
Infrared Focus Index specifications top
No.
Close Focus (distance to image plane) specifications top
At 55mm: 3.3 feet (1.0 meter).
At 210mm: 2.4 feet (0.73 meters).
Maximum Reproduction Ratio specifications top
1:20 (0.05×) at 55mm.
1:3.6 (0.28×) at 210mm.
Image Stabilizer specifications top
Rated 4.5 stops improvement.
Rated 7 stops improvement if your camera also has in-body stabilization.
Caps specifications top
Canon E-55 55mm front cap, included (p/n 8266B001).
Rear Lens Dust Cap RF-S (p/n 2962C001), included.
Hood specifications top
Optional ET-60B hood.
Case specifications top
Optional LP-1016 sack.
Size specifications top
2.74" ø maximum diameter × 3.66" extension from flange at 55mm. Gets longer as zoomed to 210mm.
69.6 mm ø maximum diameter × 92.9 mm extension from flange at 55mm. Gets longer as zoomed to 210mm.
Gets longer when erected for shooting.
Weight specifications top
9.415 oz. (266.8 g) actual measured weight.
Rated 9.5 oz. (270 g).
Quality specifications top
Made in Taiwan.
Announced specifications top
Tuesday, 07 February 2023 at 11 PM NYC time.
Included specifications top
Canon E-55 55mm front cap (p/n 8266B001).
Rear Lens Dust Cap RF-S (p/n 2962C001).
Canon's Model Numbers specifications top
Product code: 5824C002 (5824C001 in Japan).
Model number: RF-S55-210ISSTM.
JAN code: 4549292-207729.
Price, U. S. A. specifications top
September 2023
$349 at B&H, at Adorama, at Amazon and at Crutchfield,
About $309 used if you know How to Win at eBay.
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I got my RF-S 55-210mm IS STM at B&H. I'd also get it at Adorama, at Amazon, or at Crutchfield, or get it used if you know How to Win at eBay.
55mm filters.
ET-60B hood.
LP-1016 sack.
Performance top
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Overall Autofocus Manual Focus Breathing
Bokeh Distortion Ergonomics Falloff Filters
Flare & Ghosts Lateral Color Fringes
Lens Corrections Macro Min & Max Apertures
Mechanics Sharpness Spherochromatism
I got my RF-S 55-210mm IS STM at B&H. I'd also get it at Adorama, at Amazon, or at Crutchfield, or get it used if you know How to Win at eBay.
Overall performance top
This tiny 55-210mm lens works great. The real question is if you'd rather use the RF-S 18-150mm IS STM instead so you don't need to change between lenses for wide-to-tele shooting, and if you need longer than 150mm, then get the RF 100-400mm IS USM.
Autofocus performance top
Autofocus is swell, no problems here.
Manual Focus performance top
Manual focusing is entirely electronic; the manual focus ring isn't connected to anything other than a digital encoder.
How to get manual-focus override.
Focus Breathing performance top
Focus breathing is the image changing size as focused in and out. It's important to cinematographers that the image not breathe because it looks funny if the image changes size as focus gets pulled back and forth between actors. If the lens does this, the image "breathes" by growing and contracting slightly as the dialog goes back and forth.
This 55-210mm has no focus breathing at any setting.
Focus Distance Recording performance top
The focused distance is recorded in the EXIF data.
I read this in the lower left of my screen in Photoshop's lens correction filter.
Bokeh performance to
Bokeh, the feel, character or quality of out-of-focus areas as opposed to how far out of focus they are, is pretty good.
Here are photos from headshot distances wide-open. I'm focused on the DAVIS logo. Click any for the © camera-original file:
Made-in-U. S. A. Davis 6250 weather station, 28 August 2023. Canon EOS R100 at 1/1,000, 1/500 and 1/400 at Auto ISO 100, +0.7 stops exposure compensation (LV 14.6, 14.4 and 14.2). Click any for the © camera-original file.
As always, if you want to throw the background as far out of focus as possible, shoot at 210mm at f/7.1 and get as close as possible.
Distortion performance top
The RF-S 55-210mm has no visible distortion with in-camera correction.
If you turn off correction there is moderate pincushion distortion.
While Canon's own software probably also corrects this from RAW CR3 files, be warned that other brands of raw processing software probably won't correct the distortion, and Heaven only knows what distortion you may see then.
These aren't facts or specifications, they are the results of my research that requires hours of photography and calculations on the resulting data.
On APS-C at 30' (10m) |
Correction factor to use with images made with correction ON in R100 |
Correction factor with uncorrected images |
55mm |
±0.00 | -2.00 |
70mm |
+0.20 | -2.50 |
100mm |
+0.20 | -3.00 |
135mm |
±0.00 | -3.10 |
210mm |
±0.00 | -3.00 |
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Ergonomics performance top
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At 210mm. bigger. |
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At 210mm. bigger. |
The biggest problem is the complete lack of an AF/MF switch and no Stabilizer switch, meaning we have to go to menus to set these. I program the red button next to the shutter in my R100 to toggle between AF and MF in one tap.
Otherwise, ergonomics are great. This little lens is all zoom ring, with just enough bare barrel at the back as a grip for mounting.
The knurled ring at the front is usually a focus ring, and you may program it in your camera to set other things like ISO or aperture and more.
Falloff performance top
Falloff on full frame is invisible with correction at its default of ON.
If you shoot raw data rather than JPG images, whatever software you use to create visible images from raw data may or may not correct this as is done in-camera as JPGs. You're on your own there; I don't bother with raw data.
I've greatly exaggerated the falloff by shooting a gray field and placing these on a gray background; it will not look this bad in actual photos of real things:
Falloff on APS-C at infinity, correction at its default of ON.
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If you go out of your way to turn off this correction for creative effect, there is a good deal wide-open and it goes away as stopped down. Remember, these gray-on-gray shots exaggerate it:
Falloff on full-frame at infinity, correction turned OFF
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Filters, use with performance top
There's no need for thin filters. I can stack quite a few standard 55mm filters with no vignetting at any setting on full-frame.
Go ahead and use your standard rotating polarizer and grad filters.
Flare & Ghosts performance top
There are nearly no flare or ghosts. This is due to the simple design with relatively few elements and air-to-glass surfaces.
See examples at Sunstars.
Lateral Color Fringes performance top
There are no color fringes when shot as JPG with the default Chromatic Aberration Correction left ON.
If you go out of your way to turn this OFF then there are no fringes at 55mm, an almost invisible amount of green-magenta fringes at 100mm and some green-magenta fringes at 210mm.
If you shoot raw data rather than JPG images you may — or may not — be responsible to correct this on your own.
Lens Corrections performance top
Other cameras may vary as the years roll on, but my EOS R3, R5, R5C, R6 II, R6, R, R8, RP, R7, R10, R50 and R100 all have options to correct for falloff (Peripheral Illumination Correction), Distortion and a Digital Lens Optimizer which corrects for a suite of other aberrations.
Falloff (Peripheral Illumination Correction) and the Digital Lens Optimizer which corrects for a suite of other aberrations are ON by default.
Distortion correction is off by default, at least in my R100. I'd turn it ON.
If you turn off the Digital Lens Optimizer, you are then offered à la carte ON/OFF options for Chromatic Aberration Correction and Diffraction Correction.
If you shoot raw data rather than JPG images, whatever software you use to create visible images from raw data may or may not correct these as is done in-camera as JPGs. You're on your own there; I don't bother with raw data.
Macro Performance performance top
This lens gets much closer than other lenses, and it's very sharp wide-open:
Casio G-Shock Solar Atomic Watch wide-open at f/7.1 at 210mm at close-focus distance, 28 August 2023. Canon EOS R100 at 1/500 at Auto ISO 100, +0.7 stops exposure compensation (LV 14.6). bigger or camera-original © file.
1,200 × 900 pixel (5× magnification) crop from above. bigger or camera-original © file.
The texture you're seeing is the solar cell of the watch face.
If this 1,200 × 900 pixel crop is about 3" (7.5cm) wide on your screen, then the complete image printed at this same large magnification would be about 10 × 15" (25 × 38cm).
If this 1,200 × 900 pixel crop is about 6" (15cm) wide on your screen, then the complete image printed at this same extreme magnification would be about 20 × 30" (50 × 75cm).
If this 1,200 × 900 pixel crop is about 12" (30cm) wide on your screen, then the complete image printed at this same insanely high magnification would be about 40 × 60" (1 × 1.5 meters).
Maximum & Minimum Apertures performance top
Maximum Aperture |
Minimum Aperture |
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| 55mm | f/5 |
f/22 |
| 70mm | f/5.6 |
f/25 |
| 100mm | f/6.3 |
f/29 |
| 135mm | f/6.3 |
f/29 |
| 210mm | f/7.1 |
f/32 |
Mechanical Quality performance top
Canon RF-S 55-210mm f/5-7.1 IS STM. bigger.
Except for the glass, electronics and screws, this is an all-plastic lens:
Finish
Black plastic.
Front Bumper
None.
Filter Threads
Plastic.
Hood Bayonet Mount
Plastic.
Front Barrel Exterior
Plastic.
Focus Ring
Plastic.
Zoom Ring
Plastic.
Rear Barrel Exterior
Plastic.
Silver-Look Ring Near Mount
Painted Plastic.
Identity
Nearly invisibly molded into the ring around the front of lens, also "55-210" printed on the barrel near the mount.
My studio photo makes this much more visible than it will ever be in the field.
Internals
Seem like almost all plastic.
Dust Gasket at Mount
No.
Mount
Plastic.
Markings
Paint.
Serial Number
Canon RF-S 55-210mm f/5-7.1 IS STM. bigger.
Laser engraved in black-on-black on bottom of barrel.
My studio photo shows this much more clearly than it will ever seem in the field.
Date Code
None found.
Noises When Shaken
Minor clunking.
Made in
Made in Taiwan, typical for Canon's very least expensive lenses.
Sharpness performance top
Lens sharpness has nothing to do with picture sharpness; every lens made in the past 100 years is more than sharp enough to make super-sharp pictures if you know what you're doing. The only limitation to picture sharpness is your skill as a photographer. It's the least talented who spend the most time worrying about lens sharpness and blame crummy pictures on their equipment rather than themselves. Skilled photographers make great images with whatever camera is in their hands; I've made some of my best images of all time with an irreparably broken camera! Most pixels are thrown away before you see them, but camera makers don't want you to know that.
If you're not getting ultra-sharp pictures with this, be sure not to shoot at f/11 or smaller where all lenses are softer due to diffraction, always shoot at ISO 100 or below because cameras become softer at ISO 200 and above, avoid shooting across long distances over land which can lead to atmospheric heat shimmer, be sure everything is in perfect focus, set your camera's sharpening as you want it (I set mine to the maximum) and be sure nothing is moving, either camera or subject. If you want to ensure a soft image with any lens, shoot at f/16 or smaller at ISO 1,600 or above at default sharpening in daylight of subjects at differing distances in the same image.
People worry waaaaay too much about lens sharpness. It's not 1968 anymore when lenses often weren't that sharp and there could be significant differences among them; ever since about 2010 all new lenses are all pretty much equally fantastic.
This said, this lens is super sharp and contrasty corner-to corner at every aperture, limited of course by diffraction at the very smallest apertures.
If you're wondering how it has the same sharpness as an L-level lens, it's simple. Optical design becomes very easy if you make a slow lens (this lens is only f/5-7.1) and if you make a lens with reasonably moderate focal lengths, like 55-210mm. With these two easy-peasy aspects, it's trivial for Canon to have made this lens as sharp as their L series. L-lenses are big and expensive because it's far more difficult and expensive to make a faster lens as sharp.
This lens excels in the lab, and duh, you've already seen the sample images.
If you can't make a sharp photo with this lens, something's wrong.
Canon RF-S 55-210mm MTF wide-open at 10 cyc/mm (black) and 30 cyc/mm (blue). Sagittal (solid) and meridional (dashed).
Spherochromatism performance top
Spherochromatism, also called secondary spherical chromatic aberration or "color bokeh," is an advanced form of spherical and chromatic aberration in a different dimension than lateral chromatic aberration. It happens mostly in fast normal and tele lenses when spherical aberration at the ends of the color spectrum are corrected differently than in the middle of the spectrum. Spherochromatism can cause colored fringes on out-of-focus highlights, usually seen as green fringes on backgrounds and magenta fringes on foregrounds. Spherochromatism is common in fast lenses of moderate focal length when shooting contrasty items at full aperture. It goes away as stopped down.
As expected for such a slow lens, it has no significant spherochromatism:
Mondaine A132.30348.11SBB at close-focus distance at 50mm wide-open at f/6.3, 28 August 2023. Canon EOS R8 at 1/640 at Auto ISO 100, +1 stop exposure compensation (LV 14.8). bigger or camera-original © file.
1,200 × 900 pixel (5× magnification) crop from above. bigger or camera-original © file.
If this 1,200 × 900 pixel crop is about 3" (7.5cm) wide on your screen, then the complete image printed at this same large magnification would be about 10 × 15" (25 × 38cm).
If this 1,200 × 900 pixel crop is about 6" (15cm) wide on your screen, then the complete image printed at this same extreme magnification would be about 20 × 30" (50 × 75cm).
If this 1,200 × 900 pixel crop is about 12" (30cm) wide on your screen, then the complete image printed at this same insanely high magnification would be about 40 × 60" (1 × 1.5 meters).
Sunstars performance top
With a 7-bladed rounded diaphragm, I get decent 14-point sunstars on brilliant points of light at most apertures.
Click any to enlarge:
Click any to enlarge.
Weather Sealing performance top
This lens claims no weather sealing. Neither does any LEICA M lens, nor did anything other than dedicated underwater cameras claim this up until a few years ago. "Weather sealing" is mostly a marketing feature to get you to pay more for more expensive lenses.
If it really starts to rain I work under an umbrella. If a few drops of rain hit my lens, no big deal: I just wipe it off.
People worry way too much about this ever since camera companies started FUD campaigns to make us think that our gear will melt unless it has weather sealing. How do you think we shot in the rain for the first 190 years of photography?
User's Guide top
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I got my RF-S 55-210mm IS STM at B&H. I'd also get it at Adorama, at Amazon, or at Crutchfield, or get it used if you know How to Win at eBay.
AF - MF Switch user's guide top
There is none.
Set this in your camera. Most people use the menu system, while I prefer to program a CFn button to swap between AF and MF with one tap.
Manual-Focus Override user's guide top
By default, there is no always-responsive instant manual-focus override as we take for granted in our DSLRs.
EOS R cameras need a menu setting changed for manual-focus override, otherwise the focus ring is always ignored in AF.
Find the "Lens electronic AF" option in your AF menu (AF 6 in R7, R8 and R10, AF 4 in EOS R5 and EOS R6 or CAMERA 8 in EOS RP), and set it to either "One‑Shot‑> enabled" or "One‑Shot‑> enabled (magnify)."
Canon should have it set this way by default, but they don't. No big deal now that I figured it out.
In ONE SHOT mode manual focus now takes over and stays wherever you set the focus manually, however in SERVO mode this setting lets the lens focus manually as you turn the ring, but as soon as you stop turning the ring the AF system takes back over and keeps tracking focus! Oh well.
STABILIZER Switch user's guide top
There is none.
Set this in a menu in your camera. There may be a way to program a CFn button to control this if you like.
Recommendations top
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I got my RF-S 55-210mm IS STM at B&H. I'd also get it at Adorama, at Amazon, or at Crutchfield, or get it used if you know How to Win at eBay.
This tiny 55-210mm lens works great. It's ultra sharp and works great for a give-away price.
The real question is if you'd rather use the RF-S 18-150mm IS STM instead so you don't need to change between standard and tele zooms. Personally I prefer how the RF-S 18-150mm IS STM replaces two zooms, and if I need longer than 150mm, I grab my RF 100-400mm IS USM.
I use a clear (UV) protective filter instead of a cap (exactly like an iPhone) so I'm always ready to shoot instantly. I only use a cap when I throw this in a bag with other gear without padding — which is never. The UV filter never gets in the way, and never gets lost, either.
The very best protective filter is the Hoya multicoated HD3 55mm UV which uses hardened glass and repels dirt and fingerprints.
For less money, the B+W 55mm 010 is an excellent filter, as is a basic multicoated Hoya filter, but the Hoya HD3 is the toughest and the best.
Filters last a lifetime, so you may as well get the best. The Hoya HD3 stays cleaner than the others since it repels oil and dirt.
All these filters are just as sharp and take the same pictures, the difference is how much abuse they'll take and stay clean and stay in one piece. Since filters last a lifetime or more, there's no reason not to buy the best as it will last you for the next 40 years. Filters aren't throwaways like digital cameras which we replace every few years, like it or not. I'm still using filters I bought back in the 1970s!
I got my RF-S 55-210mm IS STM at B&H. I'd also get it at Adorama, at Amazon, or at Crutchfield, or get it used if you know How to Win at eBay.
This 100% all-content, junk-free website's biggest source of support is when you use those or any of these links to my personally approved sources I've used myself for way over 100 combined years when you get anything, regardless of the country in which you live — but I receive nothing for my efforts if you take the chance of getting it elsewhere. Canon does not seal its boxes in any way, so never buy at retail or any other source not on my personally approved list since you'll have no way of knowing if you're missing accessories, getting a defective, damaged, returned, dropped, incomplete, gray-market, store demo or used lens — and my personally approved sources allow for 100% cash-back returns for at least 30 days if you don't love your new lens. I've used many of these sources since the 1970s because I can try it in my own hands and return it if I don't love it, and because they ship from secure remote warehouses where no one gets to touch your new lens before you do. Buy only from the approved sources I've used myself for decades for the best prices, service, return policies and selection.
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