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- Canon EF lens F/1.8 50 mm
- Minimum Focus Range: 45 cm
- Automatic and Manual Focus Adjustment
- 52 mm Filter Size
- Light Weight (130g) and Compact (68x41 mm)
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Manufacturer's Description
EOS digital SLRs are backed up by the world's most comprehensive system of interchangeable lenses. From 14mm ultra wide angle to 600mm super telephoto, the 60+ lenses in the EF series cover all possible shooting requirements. See the world from new perspectives. Capture your vision through the eyes of EOS.
Fixed focal length lenses generally offer a wider maximum aperture than zoom lenses. From ultra-wide angle lenses ideal for indoor shooting to long telephoto lenses extensively used for wildlife, sports and news photography Canon has the fixed focal length lens to suit you.
This is the lightest EF lens of all at a mere 130g (4.6 oz). It's also very compact and delivers high-performance for a standard lens, with excellent colour balance. Its high-quality Gaussian optics provide sharp delineation from near-to-far focusing distances.
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135 of 136 people found the following review helpful
I bought this lens to go with my Canon EOS 400D kit, along with an expensive image stabilising lens. Although the image stabilising lens is fantastic, this little one is definitely my favourite. It has no zoom, but is a joy to use. The wide aperture available makes it unbelievably good for low light indoor photography (especially compared the compacts that I was used to) and the low depth of field makes great portraits. It really encourages you to be creative and imaginative with your photos. As other reviewers have said it doesn't feel extremely solid, the autofocus is a bit noisy and the manual focus ring is too small, but all of these negatives are far outweighed by the brilliant results you get almost every time. You just have to be absolutely sure where you're focussing!
199 of 202 people found the following review helpful
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Most reviewers of this lens will talk about the lack of build quality and plasticky feel overall - and they are to be believed!!
However, don't let this put you off.
Yes this lens has a plastic mount, yes the focus ring is narrow and fiddly and yes, the autofocus motor is an older, noisier, slower type but do I care one bit - NO!!!
This lens an absolute gem. I thoroughly recommend it as a replacement for the 18-55mm kit lens (I bought it for my Canon 400D) and recommend it simply because it's a great lens in it's own right no matter what you already have. It's a nice focal length for portraits.
Where this lens scores highly is its 1.8 f-stop - very fast!!! Images are definitely soft at this setting but acceptable in a pinch. I reckon you'd need to go above A4 prints for it to be noticeable. You always have to remember that you may not have got the shot at all if you didn't have the f1.8 setting so a bit of softness is the trade-off! Noticeable improvement in shrapness is seen at f2.2 and it just gets better from there on in. Stopped down to around f4 - f11 the lens displays stunning levels of clarity and sharpness for the price (by all accounts rivalling L series pro lenses costing much, much more from what others have said- I can't personally verify this but the results I've had are truly excellent.) It also focuses down to 45 cm!
To sum up, this lens punches far above its weight. For £65 you will get a lens that gives you fantastic pictures typical of lenses costing many times the asking price. Go for it!
However, don't let this put you off.
Yes this lens has a plastic mount, yes the focus ring is narrow and fiddly and yes, the autofocus motor is an older, noisier, slower type but do I care one bit - NO!!!
This lens an absolute gem. I thoroughly recommend it as a replacement for the 18-55mm kit lens (I bought it for my Canon 400D) and recommend it simply because it's a great lens in it's own right no matter what you already have. It's a nice focal length for portraits.
Where this lens scores highly is its 1.8 f-stop - very fast!!! Images are definitely soft at this setting but acceptable in a pinch. I reckon you'd need to go above A4 prints for it to be noticeable. You always have to remember that you may not have got the shot at all if you didn't have the f1.8 setting so a bit of softness is the trade-off! Noticeable improvement in shrapness is seen at f2.2 and it just gets better from there on in. Stopped down to around f4 - f11 the lens displays stunning levels of clarity and sharpness for the price (by all accounts rivalling L series pro lenses costing much, much more from what others have said- I can't personally verify this but the results I've had are truly excellent.) It also focuses down to 45 cm!
To sum up, this lens punches far above its weight. For £65 you will get a lens that gives you fantastic pictures typical of lenses costing many times the asking price. Go for it!
217 of 221 people found the following review helpful
I've got a Canon 400D with the standard kit lens. It's OK but I was a little disappointed by the sharpness that it achieved. After quite a bit of reading up I'd heard so much good stuff about this relatively inexpensive lens that I decided to get one.
Most of my pictures are of my kids and many of them are indoors. This lens is great for portraits and because the aperture can be opened to 1.8 it gets enough light that flashless indoor pictures become feasible. The results are great. Nice, natural colours compared to the flash and as others have mentioned, the blurring of the distant background is very pleasing.
Having read that it had an old fashioned and noisy focus motor I was expecting something horrific which would cause people to look around if you were taking a picture in public. In reality it's marginally louder than the USM lenses and a little slower. We're talking 25% in my view. It's perfectly useable. In low light, manual focussing is preferable and is very easy. People also say the plastic housing is fragile. Well, if like me you've got a 400D with kit lens, it's not really any more plastic like than the either of those so don't be put off.
I've only had the lens one day and I've already taken some pictures which I'll treasure. Only downside of the lens is that at 50mm on a 1.6 ratio camera like the 400D it's a telephoto. In other words, you have to step back a bit to get everything in, so not ideal for indoor group shots. A 30mm lens would be better *but* the one I was looking at was three times more expensive and that's what swung it for this one.
Most of my pictures are of my kids and many of them are indoors. This lens is great for portraits and because the aperture can be opened to 1.8 it gets enough light that flashless indoor pictures become feasible. The results are great. Nice, natural colours compared to the flash and as others have mentioned, the blurring of the distant background is very pleasing.
Having read that it had an old fashioned and noisy focus motor I was expecting something horrific which would cause people to look around if you were taking a picture in public. In reality it's marginally louder than the USM lenses and a little slower. We're talking 25% in my view. It's perfectly useable. In low light, manual focussing is preferable and is very easy. People also say the plastic housing is fragile. Well, if like me you've got a 400D with kit lens, it's not really any more plastic like than the either of those so don't be put off.
I've only had the lens one day and I've already taken some pictures which I'll treasure. Only downside of the lens is that at 50mm on a 1.6 ratio camera like the 400D it's a telephoto. In other words, you have to step back a bit to get everything in, so not ideal for indoor group shots. A 30mm lens would be better *but* the one I was looking at was three times more expensive and that's what swung it for this one.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
PLASTIC FANTASTIC
read reviews on this lens and watched reviews on Digitalrev comparing the f1.8, f1.4 & f1.2 versions of this lens
thought at the price the 1. Read more
thought at the price the 1. Read more
Published 11 hours ago by A. Cole
I love this lens...
Because it makes me look good. The photo's produced through my canon 40D using this put the kit lens to shame.
Awesome colours, pin-sharp focus and all for 50 squids. Read more
Awesome colours, pin-sharp focus and all for 50 squids. Read more
Published 1 day ago by S. Emm
Broke within 14 months
I was really pleased with the lens when it arrived. It did feel a bit plasticky as other reviewers have said but it takes beautiful pics so I was happy. Read more
Published 1 day ago by Sandyrose
Brilliant lens for the money
Just to reiterate what some of the reviews have said here: don't be put off by any reviews you may read, which say this lens has a cheap build quality. Read more
Published 2 days ago by C. monaghan
Amazing purchase, fast delivery
This lens is exactly what I have been looking for!!!! The price really does not describe the item- it's worth lot more than it is sold for. Read more
Published 16 days ago by anet
A toy that takes real pictures.
I wont bother repeating what hundreds have said before about image quality/build/price.
I was accustomed to primes on my old Pentax Spotmatic & when I got a Canon DSLR about... Read more
I was accustomed to primes on my old Pentax Spotmatic & when I got a Canon DSLR about... Read more
Published 20 days ago by Obscuratist
Canon ef 50mmm f1/8 11 lens
I am a 64yr old gone back to college full time doing an HND photography course. I was brought up on Nikon/Canon film cameras. Read more
Published 21 days ago by Mr. G. Young
Good Value general purpose lens
Possibly the most popular Canon own-brand lens. Whilst there are higher spec 50mm's available, they are all over 3x the price, and unless USM, f1. Read more
Published 27 days ago by Alex
A must have
Little to say about this article really... this is such a must have!
For the price, I would recommend any photographer to have it in its camera bag. Read more
For the price, I would recommend any photographer to have it in its camera bag. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Christophe
Mega mega pleased with top product
Really pleased with this item- cheapest place I could find and for the money its a great lens to have as part of your kit. Read more
Published 1 month ago by D. Featherstone
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