Product Description

This is considered the standard lens for use with Canon SLR cameras

Product Details

• Brand: Canon
• Model: 2514A002
• Dimensions: 1.60" h x 2.70" w x 2.70" l, .50 pounds

Features

• 50mm standard lens with f/1.8 maximum aperture
• Traditional Gauss-type optical design is extremely sharp
• Focuses as close as 18 inches for extreme close-ups
• Ideal for natural-looking shots; excellent color balance
• Measures 2.7 inches in diameter; 1-year warranty

Amazon.com Product Description
Lightweight and affordable, the Canon EF 50mm lens--which offers a fast f/1.8 aperture--is an excellent lens for people who prefer a fixed focal length. Canon's lightest EF lens at a mere 4.6 ounces, the lens boasts a traditional Gauss-type optical design that delivers a sharp performance even when wide open. 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. In addition, the lens focuses as close as 18 inches, helping you take extreme close-ups. Finally, the lens offers an excellent color balance. As with all Canon lenses, the lens carries a one-year warranty.

• Focal length: 50mm
• Maximum aperture: 1:1.8
• Lens construction: 6 elements in 5 groups
• Diagonal angle of view: 46 degrees
• Focus adjustment: Overall linear extension system with Micromotor
• Closest focusing distance: 1.5 feet
• Filter size: 52mm
• Dimensions: 2.7 inches in diameter, 1.6 inches long
• Weight: 4.6 ounces

From the Manufacturer
Lightweight and affordable, this sharp lens with a fast f/1.8 aperture is an excellent first lens for those who prefer a fixed focal length, and makes an excellent addition to any photographer's system for available-light shooting. A traditional Gauss-type optical design ensures sharp performance even wide open, and it focuses as close as 18 inches/0.45m.

A medium telephoto lens with a large aperture brings the subject closer, creates excellent background blur, gives a longer flash range, and affords a faster shutter speed to freeze the action. A standard zoom lens, with its natural angle of view and perspective, captures the subject plainly, with no special effects. However, you can use standard lenses in creative ways by varying the subject distance, aperture, and angle.

Customer Reviews

Awesome
crisp, clean and beautiful. i love shooting on this and it was cheap. every photographer needs this lens.

I'll always hate it, and always recommend it.
Let me start by echoing just about any review you'll ever read, in fact my whole review does this, and say "For the money, this lens is worth it." It's pretty sharp, fast and produces a nice picture.

Now for why I hate it...
I feel like it was built out of Legos or plastic parts out of the bottom of many cracker jack boxes. It produces errors that require me to remove it from the camera and reset it frequently, usually when the shot is most important. Be wary that this lens does know the difference between an "important shot" and a picture of your cat and will act up accordingly as revenge on you.

The mechanics are clunky and noisy, because it's made out of garbage plastic. It has hard clicks when it locks all the way to one side of the focus ring and when moving sounds like a little kid on a big wheel coming after you.

There's a lot of people who don't like to spend a lot of money on photography equipment and even the thought of an $80 lens seems a bit absurd to them. For those people I will always recommend this lens. In this case you definitely get what you pay for, but you get a little more. It's made like crap, it's not pretty, but the results are usually good and hard to beat for the price. I'd go out on a limb and say no lens in the same price range could produce the same quality pictures.

However, if you're wavering back and forth between this and the F/1.4, for a few hundred more, do yourself a big favor and spend the extra money if you have it.

Fantastic lens!
This lens is fantastic! I've been shooting with it for about a month now and my photos are definitely looking good. It's a great starter prime lens with good focus and clear pictures. I've been doing show/concert photography with it and works wonderfully in low light. You get a lot of bang for your buck here. With most other lenses costing $300-$1200, the 50mm f1.8 is quite a steal at under $100. Buy it and you won't regret it.