Product Description

Compact and high-performance, this standard lens is the lightest EF lens of all at a mere 4.6 oz. (130g). Its Gaussian optics provides sharp delineation from near to far focusing distances. The color balance is excellent for a standard lens.

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

Simply WoW
I just receive this lens when I was at work, I put it on my camera and GIVE ME A BREAK!!! Well I had to give myself a break...
This lens is Awesome and for this price WOW.
I love it for portraits the detail and color are just amazing, I was skeptical because of the price thought it was a plastic lens but it looks solid. It does makes lots of noise while focusing but if you have your headphones on you wont hear a thing :)
Now time to go and see how it looks in different subjects - hmmm the city???

good value for the price
agreed, poor build quality. but why do u need to see the quality when it can shoot decent pictures? not 50 mm f1.4 grade, but hey....its damn cheap. u can use it for a few months and then discard when u upgrade. good for ppl on a tight budget/learners (like me :-(). anywayz, its so fast...never missed an expression on my kid's face...and works very well indoors/poor lighting. but i think i will never buy a thing from adorama again, took a month to get this lens, customer service sucks..they told me they shipped it so now its not their responsibility...had to wait in line for an hour at my local post office to get this lens. emailed them twice after that..no response...not even an apology!! adorama lost 1 customer for life.

Excellent for the price
I bought this because every single camera site I've been to said to buy it. And for $80 (which was what I'd paid for it), how can I lose. Now, I've had it for a few months, and what can I say except that it's excellent. Razor-shape images, fast-fast f.18 aperture, and on my 1.6x sensor, roughly 80mm shots--which are perfect for portraits. I don't understand why people say it's built crappily, but again, it's $80, and unless you're a photojournalist who abuses her equipment, why worry about its build quality?

A warning, however: 50mm on a cropped-sensor camera, again, will translate into a 80mm focal length, which might be too narrow for most close-up shots outside of portraits. If you want to take any sort of street shot, I'd suggest getting a fast zoom or something like the Tamron 17-50mm.