I don’t like using flash, but I often have to shoot in low light conditions, so I have long dreamed of a fast normal lens with an image stabilizer. And finally, Canon has released such a model. Hooray! A small test showed that in terms of sharpness this lens is about the level of the EF 50mm f/1.8. Some would say that this is terrible: a $1000 lens is as sharp as a $130 lens! But it's not. 50/1.8 is a very sharp lens. But with a very nasty focusing system . It was because of autofocus misses that he got a bad name. When manually focusing on LiveView with 10x magnification, the sharpness is excellent. Judging by laboratory tests that can be found on the Internet, at f / 2.8 this 35/2, 50 / 1.8 and, for example, 50 / 1.2L, which costs more than 1000 euros, go head to head in sharpness. But here we have a lens with a focal length that is less than the working distance (the distance from the bayonet to the matrix), for such it is much more difficult to get good sharpness .