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Category: Photography
List Price: $150.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  737 reviews
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Maximum Focal Length: 50
Minimum Focal Length: 50
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 2.7 x 2.7 x 1.6
MPN: 2514A002
Model: 2514A002
UPC: 829662127272
EAN: 0082966212727
ASIN: B00007E7JU
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 Very good lens for portraits January 6, 2009
I bought the 50mm f/1.8 II Canon lens for shooting portraits with my 40D. I must say that I am very satisfied with it as the luminosity of the pictures is incredible, especially when there is few light available. You can use it inside or outside, even without any flash when it is not too dark. It's a great lens for the price paid!
 great 50mm lens, especially for the price. January 6, 2009
great lens. very fast. able to get a nice blurred background so the focus is on the subject. nice crisp photos even in lowlight without a flash!
The best lens to learn with January 6, 2009
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
When I first got into photography, all I had was a Pentax K1000; a 100% manual film SLR with a Sears 50mm f2.8 lens. I loved it. I messed up a lot of shots, and learned from every one.
Times have changed a lot, but the thing I love is that a fast 50mm lens will still help you learn so much about photography. From framing your shots well to shutter and aperture settings, you will learn a LOT using this lens. You will learn about depth of field very quickly. You will learn about how much light you need at what aperture settings to properly expose the image...
Yes, the lens feels so cheaply built it seems like it must have come out of a Happy Meal.
Yes, it's slow and loud to focus.
However, it takes a darn good picture.
If you have recently bought a digital Rebel, buy this lens and leave it on your camera in lieu of the kit lens for a month of shooting. You will learn so much about photography in that time!
If you get serious about photography then you will end up buying lenses that cost much more than your camera did. Stick this cheap lens on your new camera and you will learn so much that you can make better decisions on what expensive lenses to buy.
For the price of this lens you have nothing to loose.
Enjoy!
KO
Wonderful Optical Quality, Iffy Build Quality January 5, 2009
I use this lens with my Canon EOS Rebel XS (or 1000D, if you are in Europe), and I could not have been more satisfied buying it. It's almost questionably cheap, but it has excellent optical quality. I think Canon did an excellent job with this lens, because they managed to put great lenses and a pretty decent AF mechanism in it without bringing the price too far up. Unfortunately, this means that they had to lower the production cost by doing something, and they chose to make it out of plastic. This makes it vulnerable to physical abuse, while its big brother, the Canon EF 50mm f1.4 USM Standard & Medium Telephoto Lens for Canon SLR Cameras is made out of metal and is able to withstand this physical abuse.
Overall, this lens is great for those who are, like me, on a budget and are willing to take the chance of breaking the lens. Everyone else should try and go for 50mm f/1.4.
I just wanted to note the purple fringing January 4, 2009
I just wanted to make a quick post to point out that while this is a great lens, it is susceptible to purple fringing around high contrast areas. I bought this lens almost specifically for wide field astrophotography and am quite disappointed by the fringing.
Despite all that, I still think this a lens all dslr owners should have in their kit (unless they pony up for the 1.4).
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