The Meike 50mm f/1.2 RF lens for Canon EOS RP mount allows for more handheld low-light images, and also offers a very creamy bokeh (blurred background) that you can only get with a low aperture lens. Why is bokeh important to your photography? Bokeh adds a very professional look to portraits, and can add a creative boost to any image regardless of subject matter.

I took my Meike 50mm f/1.2 attached to my EOS RP out on a cloudy, overcast day for a drive around rural Indiana. While I love a good evening sunset or beautiful golden hour images, when it's a dull, dreary day you can still have fun with a lens like this by getting close up, and making that f/1.2 work for you with excellent sharpness on the subject, and a nice, soft background.

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The first time you attach a manual lens, such as the Meike 50mm f/1.7 RF lens in the video below, to your Canon EOS RP you will need to go into your MENU settings and tell the camera to allow a manual lens to be used.

There are certain modes that will not accept manual lenses to work, specifically the AV (Aperture Priority) setting, as even with the Release Shutter w/o Lens enabled, the camera will not read the aperture. It shows up as '00' in the reading. For this to work, it's best to have your camera on set Manual mode.