Product Description

The CANON EF 50MM f/1.4 USM is a standard lens featuring superb quality and portability. Two high-refraction lens elements and new Gaussian optics eliminate astigmatism and suppress astigmatic difference. Crisp images with little flare are obtained even at the maximum aperture. Max. Diameter & Length - 73.8mm x 50.5mm

Product Details

• Brand: Canon
• Model: 2515A003
• Dimensions: 2.00" h x 2.00" w x 2.90" l, .64 pounds

Amazon.com Product Description
When accuracy matters, the Canon EF 50mm standard lens steps to the plate. The lens offers two high-refraction lens elements and new Gaussian optics, helping eliminate astigmatism and suppress astigmatic differences. As a result, the lens provides an image that's extremely close to how your eye perceives a subject, making it excellent for portraits and images that require a natural depth of field. The lens even delivers crisp images with little flare at the maximum aperture. Compact and affordable, the EF 50mm is the only lens in the EF system to offer the extra-small Micro USM while still providing full-time manual focusing. As with all Canon lenses, the EF 50mm carries a one-year warranty.

• Focal length: 50mm
• Maximum aperture: 1:1.4
• Lens construction: 7 elements in 6 groups
• Diagonal angle of view: 46 degrees
• Focus adjustment: Overall linear extension system with USM
• Closest focusing distance: 1.5 feet
• Filter size: 58mm
• Dimensions: 2.9 inches in diameter, 2 inches long
• Weight: 10.2 ounces

Customer Reviews

great price, average images
OK so there's a lot of discussion on whether this is a "good" lens,and it's an OK to good lens for the money. The biggest problems is the chromatic aberration. Now this just could be this particular lens, though there is a lot of discussion on that, too. My experience is this: if you are shooting high contrast color with a lot of dark to light edges, the lens interprets the borders and shadows as a kind of deep green. My particular shot included a white traffic stripe on a black asphalt road, and I was shooting close at 1.4 so any aberration is bound to show up under these conditions. The green aberration appeared mostly in the bokeh, so that might be the final factor in a shot that would force the lens into bad behavior.

There was green fringing along the subject of the shot, and nothing I could do in Lightroom or PS could get rid of it minus a lot of color selection and masking that really should not be necessary.

So I spoke with a knowledgeable friend and showed him the shot and he said that this kind of aberration is not out of bounds for a 350.00 lens under the conditions I was using it in. So really, it ain't L glass but we knew that.

It is fine in the middle focus range of the lens and the middle of the aperture ranges, it will hunt a little (so focus on a contrasty edge because that's where all lenses like to focus), but otherwise it performs quite well.

My gripe is this: Canon, give me a 1.4 50mm lens in the 800 dollar range and I'll snap it up. The price disparity between the 1.4 and the 1.2, while understandable, is too much of a gap to justify spending 1400.00 on the 1.2 lens.

The lens is really just a plinker. Good for fun, but not for serious hunting.

Worth every dollar
This is an amazing lens to buy. Granted, it seems a little on the pricey side, when compared to the 1.8, but the overall quality is worth the money. The physical build is much better than the 1.8 and it's sharpness is preferable over it's cheaper cousin (especially in the 1.x region - in comparison).

A great buy for anyone that needs a quick, all-purpose lens (great for indoors).

Fantastic lens
The Canon EF 50mm F/1.4 is a fantastic lens! I love using it when shooting products, though I don't like using it for portraits, I prefer my 85mm f/1.2 to do that job, but overall this is a great lens and it's every photographers favorite and worth owning.