Canon RF 24–105mm f/2.8L IS USM Z Lens

The Canon RF 24–105mm f/2.8L IS USM Z is a groundbreaking professional hybrid zoom that combines the familiar 24–105mm range with a constant f/2.8 maximum aperture. It gives photographers and filmmakers the wide-angle coverage of a standard zoom, the portrait reach of 105mm, and the low-light performance normally associated with a 24–70mm f/2.8 lens.

Its internal zoom design, dual Nano USM focusing system, clickless iris ring, advanced stabilization, and compatibility with optional power-zoom adapters make it equally capable on a professional photography assignment or a fully equipped cinema rig.

✨ Key Benefits

• Versatile 24–105mm zoom range with constant f/2.8 aperture

• Internal zoom design with fixed physical length

• Up to 5.5 stops of optical image stabilization

• Up to 8 stops with coordinated stabilization on compatible cameras

• Dual Nano USM motors for fast, quiet autofocus

• Maintains focus exceptionally well while zooming

• Dedicated clickless iris ring

• Compatible with optional PZ-E2 and PZ-E2B Power Zoom Adapters

• 11-blade circular aperture for refined background blur

• Four UD and three aspherical elements

• Two customizable lens function buttons

• Included removable tripod mount

• Dust- and weather-resistant L-series construction

🌎 Extended 24–105mm Professional Coverage

The lens extends beyond the traditional 24–70mm professional zoom range while retaining a constant f/2.8 aperture.

At 24mm, it is ideal for:

• Landscapes and architecture

• Interiors and establishing shots

• Large groups

• Wedding venues

• Documentary scenes

• Handheld and gimbal video

The middle of the range provides natural perspectives for street photography, interviews, events, and general storytelling.

At 85–105mm, the lens offers flattering compression and strong subject separation for portraits, ceremony coverage, sports sidelines, performances, and detailed shots.

This extended range can reduce the need to change lenses or carry an additional short-telephoto zoom.

🌙 Constant f/2.8 Aperture

The maximum aperture remains at f/2.8 throughout the entire zoom range. Photographers can zoom from 24mm to 105mm without losing light or changing exposure.

The bright aperture provides:

• Strong low-light performance

• Faster shutter speeds for moving subjects

• Lower ISO settings

• Shallow depth of field

• Consistent exposure while zooming

• Smooth background separation at longer focal lengths

At 105mm and f/2.8, the lens produces a portrait look that conventional 24–70mm zooms cannot provide without moving closer or cropping.

🎬 Built for Photography and Cinema

The “Z” designation identifies the lens as a hybrid production model with controls and accessory compatibility intended for professional photography and filmmaking.

It combines L-series still-photography performance with features more commonly associated with cinema and broadcast lenses, including:

• Internal zoom

• Clickless iris control

• Power-zoom compatibility

• Minimal focus shift while zooming

• Focus-breathing correction support

• Customizable lens buttons

• A removable tripod mount

• A fixed, rig-friendly physical length

This makes it particularly useful for wedding films, documentaries, corporate productions, interviews, news gathering, and small production crews.

🔄 Fixed-Length Internal Zoom

All zooming takes place internally, so the lens barrel does not extend or retract when the focal length changes.

This provides several practical benefits:

• More consistent balance on a gimbal

• Reduced shifts in the center of gravity

• Easier use with matte boxes and camera rigs

• Less exposure of moving barrel sections to dust and moisture

• Predictable handling throughout the zoom range

The lens also focuses internally, keeping its physical length constant during both zooming and focusing.

⚙️ Optional Power Zoom

The lens supports the optional Canon PZ-E2 and PZ-E2B Power Zoom Adapters. Either adapter can be attached without special tools and provides smooth, repeatable motorized zoom movement.

The PZ-E2 is suited to solo operators, event filmmakers, and compact production setups. The PZ-E2B adds a 20-pin connection for compatible cinema and broadcast controls, including zoom and focus demands.

Power zoom is valuable for:

• Controlled cinematic zooms

• Live productions

• Interviews and documentaries

• Remote camera operation

• Wedding films

• Repeatable zoom timing

• Single-operator video production

Power Zoom Adapters are sold separately.

🎛️ Clickless Iris Ring

A dedicated iris ring provides smooth, direct aperture control during video recording. Its clickless operation allows exposure or depth of field to change gradually without abrupt steps or mechanical clicking sounds.

The iris ring can adjust aperture in fine increments during movie recording. Still-photography operation depends on the attached camera model; compatible newer cameras can also support iris-ring control for still images.

🎯 Dual Nano USM Autofocus

Two Nano USM motors independently control the focusing and floating optical groups.

This electronic floating-focus system provides:

• Fast and accurate autofocus

• Smooth, quiet movie focusing

• High optical performance at different focusing distances

• Reduced aberration changes

• Minimal focus shift while zooming

• Full-time manual focusing with compatible cameras

Maintaining focus while zooming is particularly valuable during video recording, sports coverage, and high-speed sequences.

🎥 Focus-Breathing Correction Support

Focus breathing causes the angle of view to change as focus moves between near and distant subjects. The lens is designed to minimize this effect and supports electronic focus-breathing correction with compatible cameras.

This helps framing remain more consistent during deliberate focus pulls, interviews, close-ups, and narrative video production.

Electronic correction may slightly narrow the recorded field of view.

🛡️ Advanced Image Stabilization

Built-in optical image stabilization provides up to 5.5 stops of shake correction.

When paired with a compatible EOS R-series camera featuring in-body image stabilization, coordinated stabilization can provide up to 8 stops of correction. This improves handheld performance for still photography and helps produce steadier video.

The lens provides three stabilization modes:

• Mode 1 for general stationary subjects

• Mode 2 for panning

• Mode 3 for subjects moving unpredictably

These options make the stabilization system useful for portraits, sports, events, wildlife, and documentary work.

🔬 Professional L-Series Optics

The optical design contains 23 elements in 18 groups, including four Ultra-low Dispersion elements and three aspherical elements.

The UD elements help reduce chromatic aberration and color fringing, while the aspherical elements control distortion and maintain detail throughout the image.

Canon’s Air Sphere and Super Spectra coatings help suppress flare and ghosting in strong or backlit conditions. A fluorine coating on the front element helps prevent water, oil, and fingerprints from adhering to the glass.

🌸 11-Blade Circular Aperture

An 11-blade circular diaphragm produces smooth, rounded out-of-focus highlights and refined background blur.

The combination of an f/2.8 aperture and 105mm focal length provides excellent subject separation for portraits, interviews, wedding details, products, and close-ups.

The 11-blade construction also helps produce attractive sunstars when the aperture is stopped down for landscapes, architecture, or nighttime city scenes.

🔍 Close-Focusing Performance

The lens focuses as close as approximately 17.7 inches throughout the zoom range.

At 105mm, it provides up to 0.29x magnification, making it useful for:

• Wedding rings and decorations

• Food photography

• Flowers and plants

• Product details

• Crafts and artwork

• Documentary close-ups

Its consistent minimum focusing distance also simplifies operation when zooming between wide and telephoto compositions near a subject.

🎚️ Professional Controls

The lens includes two customizable lens function buttons positioned for convenient access in horizontal or vertical shooting orientations.

Depending on the attached camera, these buttons can be assigned to functions such as:

• Autofocus stop

• Subject detection

• AF area selection

• Exposure controls

• Another frequently used camera function

A focus-distance limiter can restrict focusing to the range from one meter to infinity, improving autofocus response when close subjects do not need to be acquired.

🦾 Included Tripod Mount

The included tripod mount helps support the lens and camera more evenly on a tripod, monopod, slider, or video head.

Its foot can be removed quickly using a lock-release button, allowing the photographer to move from supported to handheld operation without special tools.

An optional Canon LH-E1 Lens Holder can provide additional support when incorporating the lens into a larger video rig.

🛡️ Weather-Resistant Construction

Weather-resistant sealing is applied around the operating rings, switches, mount, and other vulnerable areas. The internal zoom design further reduces external movement during operation.

A fluorine coating helps repel fingerprints, oil, and moisture from the front element.

The lens is not waterproof, and suitable protection should still be used during severe weather.

📋 Key Specifications

Specification	Details
Mount	Canon RF
Format compatibility	Full-frame and APS-C
Focal-length range	24–105mm
APS-C equivalent	Approximately 38–168mm
Maximum aperture	Constant f/2.8
Minimum aperture	f/22
Optical construction	23 elements in 18 groups
Special elements	4 UD and 3 aspherical
Minimum focus distance	0.45m / 17.7 inches
Maximum magnification	0.29x at 105mm
Optical image stabilization	Up to 5.5 stops
Coordinated stabilization	Up to 8 stops with compatible cameras
Stabilization modes	1, 2, and 3
Autofocus system	Dual Nano USM
Aperture blades	11, circular
Iris ring	Yes, clickless
Lens function buttons	2
Focus limiter	Full range or 1m–infinity
Zoom design	Internal
Power-zoom compatibility	PZ-E2 and PZ-E2B
Filter size	82mm
Weather-resistant construction	Yes
Dimensions	Approximately 3.5 × 7.8 inches
Weight	Approximately 46.9 oz. / 1,330g

👤 Ideal For

• Professional wedding photographers and filmmakers

• Event and concert photographers

• Photojournalists and documentary creators

• Commercial photographers

• Corporate video teams

• Sports and action photographers

• Cinema EOS operators

• Gimbal, studio, and multicamera productions

• Hybrid creators who need one lens for stills and video

⚖️ Comparing Your Canon RF Options

Compared with the RF 24–70mm f/2.8L IS USM

Both lenses provide a constant f/2.8 aperture, professional optics, stabilization, and weather-resistant construction.

The RF 24–105mm f/2.8L Z extends the range to 105mm and adds internal zoom, an iris ring, dual Nano USM motors, lens function buttons, three IS modes, and optional power-zoom support.

The RF 24–70mm is substantially smaller and lighter, making it easier to carry for travel, handheld photography, and long event days.

Compared with the RF 24–105mm f/4L IS USM

The RF 24–105mm f/4L covers the same focal range in a much smaller and lighter package.

The f/2.8L Z is one stop brighter and provides stronger low-light performance, shallower depth of field, more advanced stabilization, internal zoom, cinema-oriented controls, and power-zoom compatibility.

The f/4L remains the more practical option when portability is a priority.

Compared with the RF 28–70mm f/2L USM

The RF 28–70mm f/2L is one stop brighter, providing exceptional subject separation and prime-like low-light capability.

The RF 24–105mm begins wider, extends much farther into telephoto, includes optical stabilization, and offers substantially more advanced video features.

Compared with Separate 24–70mm and 70–200mm Zooms

A traditional two-lens professional kit provides more telephoto reach and may distribute weight more comfortably between separate lenses.

The RF 24–105mm f/2.8L Z eliminates lens changes across the most frequently used 24–105mm range, making it particularly valuable for fast-moving events, documentary production, and situations where missing a moment is not an option.

📦 In the Box

• Canon RF 24–105mm f/2.8L IS USM Z Lens

• Removable Tripod Mount

• Canon EW-88E Lens Hood

• Canon E-82 II Front Lens Cap

• Canon RF Rear Lens Dust Cap

• Canon LZ1326B Lens Case

The PZ-E2 and PZ-E2B Power Zoom Adapters and LH-E1 Lens Holder are optional accessories sold separately.

🧳 Suggested Kits

Professional Wedding Kit

Pair the lens with an EOS R5 Mark II or EOS R6-series camera, Speedlite, spare batteries, high-capacity memory cards, and a comfortable support strap.

Cinema Production Kit

Combine it with a compatible Cinema EOS camera, PZ-E2B Power Zoom Adapter, matte box, external monitor, follow-focus controls, and heavy-duty tripod.

Solo Filmmaker Kit

Pair it with an EOS R5 C or another video-oriented EOS R-series body, PZ-E2 Power Zoom Adapter, external microphone, variable neutral-density filter, and appropriately rated monopod or gimbal.

Sports and Event Kit

Combine it with an EOS R1, EOS R3, or EOS R5 Mark II, monopod, fast memory cards, spare batteries, and an RF super-telephoto lens for more distant action.

🏪 Why Buy from Cameragraphics?

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We have been serving Auburn since 1974 and provide knowledgeable, personal assistance before and after your purchase.