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| Brand: Canon
Category: Photography
List Price: $520.00
Buy New: $304.99
You Save: $215.01 (41%)
New (41) Used (1) from $299.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  183 reviews
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Fragile: No
Batteries Included: No
Maximum Focal Length: 58
Minimum Focal Length: 50
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 2.9 x 2 x 2
MPN: 2515A003
Model: 2515A003
UPC: 082966213014
EAN: 4960999213019
ASIN: B00009XVCZ
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 As good as it gets November 9, 2006
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
What can you say, other than it's 4 times cheaper than the 50f1.2L. Not an L, but a great bright fast quiet lens, small and optically superb. On a crop camera it's a 80mm portrait lens. Super.
 Amazing lens November 7, 2006
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
This lens is great. I've been doing portraits and just random snapshots and it makes every picture beautiful! The only downside is the lack of ability to zoom. Other than that it's a great lens!
One Heck of a Portrait Lens November 6, 2006
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
After reading a number of on-line reviews, I bought this lens a few weeks ago straightly for its low-light photography capability.
What I have gotten is a little more than I have bargained for. The pictures it produces have made a casual hobbyist like myself look like a pro, at least in the admiring eyes of unsuspecting acquaintances. Now only if I have the heart to mumble-jumble a few far-fetched jargons, I might have a new packing order firmly in place. When paired with my Rebel XTi, the 80mm effective focal length and wide apertures make it an ideal portrait lens. It is also compact, light-weigh and solidly built, has fast and acurate auto-focus, and most importantly, has superb optical qualities. The best part is I have gotten these without breaking the bank nor does it break my neck hauling it around.
However, despite its low-light capability, the very attributes that make this lens outstanding for portraits, i.e., narrow angle of view and shallow depth of field at wide apertures, make it an odd choice for in-door group photos. Also if you are taking action shots, the 80mm focal length may not be long enough to provide a safe distance to avoid mishaps. Instead of being a distal observer, I have found myself an unwilling participant in the middle of the action ducking the camera from the ever-curious tongues of my Golden Retriever and her playmates. No wonder zoom lenses are so popular.
What else is there not to like about this lens? Not much unless you are a proud owner of one mammoth of an expensive L prime lens. Well, it does come with a free hood and that wonderful soft leather pouch, doesn't it?
 not so fast November 6, 2006
2 out of 11 found this review helpful
I have tried at least four samples of this lens and they all have had the same issue: they are very soft at 1.4. This lens gets much much better as soon as you go to 2.8.
Eventually, I bought the Canon 50mm 2.5 macro lens and I can say that this lens is almost as sharp at wide open as it is closed down to the next stop and the remaing stops. I am very happy with this lens. Oh, this lens also costs less than the 50mm 1.4.
Great boquet - avoid auto focus November 6, 2006
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
The lens is great! I'm using it on my EOS 20D, and the shots are beautiful. At the wide open setting (1.4), the depth of field is amazing and provides an absolutely outstanding boquet. This lens is definitely worth the difference in price over the 1.8. The boquet is much better. A little advice: avoid using the auto focus on your camera when using this lens... its too easy to catch any little thing in front or behind what you are intending to focus on, and you WILL see a difference, with just a small difference in depth. Manually, the lens will provide you with perfect shots every time! And its well worth the extra few seconds to make sure the shot is composed correctly!
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