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Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 ll Lens - 52mm Filter Size
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Product Description
Standard lens with large opening. Get great close up and long distance shots from this high class 130g lens.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #276 in Consumer Electronics
- Brand: Canon
- Model: EF5018
- Released on: 2003-08-14
- Number of items: 1
Editorial Reviews
Manufacturer's Description
This is the lightest EF lens of all at a mere 130g, very compact and providing a high-performance for a standard lens. Its Gaussian
optics provides sharp delineation from near to far focusing distances. The color balance is excellent for a standard lens.
Box Contents
- Canon EF50mm f/1.8 ll Lens
- Dust Cap
- Lens Cap
Customer Reviews
Wow, what a difference
Having last year bought a DSLR (350D) with a zoom lens and then experienced its limitations with quality (poor sharpness) and
inconsistant AF focussing (hit and miss to say the least) I decided to buy this prime lens to see if that helped improve the situation.
Wow, what a difference, this is a real corker for the price. The images captured with this lens is in a different league - pin sharp even
at high ISO's and fantastic replication of colour and levels. Yes it is plastic and will hunt if the subject is not central but it gets a
highly recommended from me.
Beautiful, simple little lens that produces wonderful results
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!
GREAT LENS
I can only echo what other people say about this lens.
It isn't loaded with state of the art gizmos, it isn't built well and it'll probably break into a thousand pieces if you drop it......but
who cares? For £70 you can go and buy another!
OK, so the AF micro motor is loud and it will hunt in low light, but this is not an L series lens. This little piece of Japanese plastic
will take stunningly sharp pictures with great colour balance at all apertures. It focuses down to about 18 inches and, wide open, this
lens will throw everything out of focus into a rich, creamy background blur on a par with lenses costing many times more.
If you've recently bought a DSLR/EF-S kit lens combination you will have seen the limitations of the lens when viewing pictures at 100%.
You certainly won't be disappointed with the image quality of this lens. It is superb in all situations from portraiture to landscape and
this lens really excels in low light. The lens has an 80mm equivalent on 1.6x crop-factor bodies and, as others have said, you will need
to think more about composition - but one thing is for certain....you will never regret buying this lens.
It is a cheap and obvious progression from the low quality kit lenses that many people encounter through their first DSLR camera.
I don't work for Canon either, but if I did, I'd sell thousands of these!!