The 30mm F1.4 DC HSM | Art is an excellent, fast standard lens for artistic photography designed for use with an APS-C format digital camera. It has a field of view equivalent to a 45mm lens on a 35mm camera.

Thanks to its large F1.4 aperture and a field of view that resembles that of the human eye, this lens is ideal for many different forms of photographic expression. The photographer can effectively use the shallow depth of field with beautiful bokeh for snapshots, portraits, landscapes, and many other areas of photography.

The 30mm F1.4 DC HSM | Art offers outstanding optical performance, delivering expressive quality at all shooting distances. An optimized distribution of forces minimizes field curvature, preventing a loss of image quality at the edges.

The use of a double-sided aspherical lens minimizes spherical aberration, astigmatism, and coma. The coma from point light sources is reduced almost to the image edge. When using large apertures, an attractive, soft bokeh is created.

The lens features a rear focusing system that prevents focus-dependent imaging errors, ensuring very high image quality across the entire field of view. The constant length of the lens also improves balance and stability while shooting. Additionally, since the front lens element does not rotate, polarizing filters can be easily used.

The Super Multi-Layer Coating (SML) reduces stray light and ghosting, providing sharp and contrast-rich images even in backlight conditions. The lens has a minimum focusing distance of 30 cm, and its maximum magnification ratio of 1:6.8 is well-suited for close-up shots.