Canon EF 50 mm 1.8 STM Lens - Compact and Lightweight Lens for Canon DSLR Cameras, Fast Aperture, Smooth Focusing - Ideal for Portraits and Creative Photography

I've just bought this lens to replace my 50mm f1.8 lens which fell apart after 6 years use. I was attracted by others' reviews and the compact design, fast aperture of 2.8 and the fact it's an EF lens so when I eventually upgrade to a full frame Canon, it will still be useful. I've been using it for best part of a week so far and I'm very pleased with it. It's great in low light, ultra compact and great build quality for the money. I paid £150 with p&p, and it's already come down 20 quid in price, but it's worth the extra 20 quid and more. The lens has more detail throughout the frame than my old 50mm f1.8 II Canon lens and I am now feel i should have gone straight to this lens in the first place. It gives me 64mm focal length on my 1.6 x cropped sensor of the 60D I use, which to be fair is perfect for group shots and portraits. I'm slightly more in the face of portrait subjects than with the 50mm, but the lens has a much smaller profile being a pancake design, so it hasn't yet seemed to intimidate any of my subjects. The focusing is quick and near silent. I've used the manual focus ring on the lens which is oddly, but cleverly electronic, so there is a fraction of a second delay, but it's still quicker than auto focus (depending on you of course and how quickly your eyes focus on the viewfinder). The build quality is excellent and it has a nice weighty feel in the hand, but feels perfectly balanced on the camera. Shots are sharp throughout the frame at all apertures that i have found, whereas the 50mm 1.8 could soften a little round the edges at f1.8 (but was ok from around f3.2 and above). I can see me using this lens for most shots now other than wide angle shots. It's not often i use zoom functions on my longer lenses, so this could be my 'walk around lens'. Each to their own i know, but i love it. The 50mm lens was a great lens, but unfortunately, the ease at which it appears to have broken (haven't a clue how it happened, because I didn't drop it or knock it) has put me off buying another. If I ever do go for another 50mm it will probably be the £1200 L series f1.2 when i eventually upgrade to a 5d III.....one day. Right now, that's far too expensive for me to justify as I'm not a pro (not yet anyway ;-)) Right now, this lens fulfils 90% of shooting requirements from a focal length point of view. Clever Canon. It's made in Malaysia, not Japan, which was my only slight apprehension when buying this lens, but I'm very pleased so far and the build quality is great as i said. If you don't quite want to stretch to £300ish for the f1.4 50mm and are, like me, now non-confident in the 50mm 1.8 II, this 40mm f2.8 EF is a great, economically in between alternative and i highly recommend it. By the way, I ordered it on a week day in the morning and had it by tea time the next day direct from Amazon.

This is a beaut of a lens. It is small. Cheap BUT super low f, so bright, fast and stm in this latest version for fast, quiet autofocus. I also got the 24mm and a 55-250 to have a decent selection of lenses after some youtube time. This is perhaps the worlds best selling lens and came highly recommended. This version is even better with multiple improvements like more metal for plastic and stm autofocus. Great for localisation/bokeh so I can focus in on what I am interested in with lovely background blur a.k.a. bokeh. Being f1.8, get bright images with colours. I have not tried it out in the dark or with fast shutter speeds to test it out BUT it is the best selling lens and the pics that I saw on youtube with it were amazing. As with most things camera wise, worth checking out if can get 2nd hand since get great prices and as new in most cases. This is ideal for portrait or product photography. 24mm compliments it nicely, for some wide angle. Also remember with crop cameras 50mm behaves like 80mm in full frame. A lovely lens and so far I would say that I would have been just as happy if I only had this lens since I use it for nearly all my pics. I'll play around with the other ones and there are shots which the 24mm let me take. Will not regret getting this and will be hard to remember how you survived without it once you have it!

This is a very good lens for the price. It's a 50mm prime lens and you should note that on a crop sensor camera this would be around 80mm which basically means the view will be zoomed in. This isn't perfect for in door shots unless you are in a large room but that's just a note to make. The 1.8 F-stop is great for low light situations when compared to the starter lens kit which goes down to 3.5 (i believe) so this means you can shoot in doors or when it gets darker without resorting to a highier ISO shutter adjustments. I shoot video so I need to stick to some rules for my ideal shot when it comes to motion blur etc. The lens has a great focus ring because it's not right on the front like with the starter kit lens, it's set back a little and is a bit larger making it easier to pull focus. You get a nice circular bokeh effect with this lens when doing a depth of field shot. The downside of using this lens specifically when shooting film is the noise. It's not terribly loud but it is noticeable. If you are shooting outside with a lot of ambient noise from the traffic etc it might not be so bad but in doors it's not great. So imagine you are shooting two characters and you want to rack focus between them and the primary sound is the dialogue, well you can be sure you will have to do some ADR to correct that in post so have your actors on standby. Of course for a shot without changing focus it's really nice For still photography it's great I am comparing all these things to the starter lens because I would imagine most people considering to buy this lens would be looking for an upgrade to their starter lens and the variable starter lens can also reach a focal length of 50mm (18-55mm). I guess the noise is the only thing you can complain about and that only really counts if you are filming and you are adjusting the focus through the shot. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Good: F/1.8 - Good bokeh and good amount of light let in Bad: Auto focus is loud and crazy and focus in general is a little noisy but manual focus isn't that bad unless you are shooting quiet video Good: Focus ring is a little thicker and it's not right at the front of the lens making it easier to pull focus ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I always use manual focus but i tried the auto focus to test it out and it's horrible, it didn't work great and it makes a crazy noise when doing it. It's not a smooth transition, imagine starting a car engine but altering the noise frequencies. If you have a solid 'subject' in the scene like a person the sound from the lens is like a laser printer when using the auto focus. With the manual focus it's a nice smooth transition/sound so it doesn't sound like your camera is a bag of crap. I have really pointed out the noise but that's the only real negative and it's not that bad especially for taking stills, i just wanted to give you some idea of what to expect. The final thing that makes this lens awesome is if you fiddle with the focus ring moving it back and fourth really fast you can make it sound like BB-8 from star wars.

Amazing lens. It is pretty wide so you don't have to move around. At 2.8 with high ISO, its good at night time also. Silent focusing compared to 50mm 1.8. And its very thin! I use it on a 5D, and its much better compared to the 50 mm 1.8. At night I sometimes miss the 1.8, but then the focusing is much faster on this, and silent as well, so in all, its a nicer buy. Plus with high ISOs, you are usually Ok. There is more noise, but then the added convenience is a good tradeoff. For a full frame, its a very sweet deal. Pictures are sharp, colours are great. I am getting peanuts for the 50mm, so I still use it sometimes when I know I would need the 1.8 but those occasions are becoming less and less.

A brilliant lens for anyone looking to up their photography game! Every photo you take with this lens between an aperture range of 1.8 to 3.2 will have the nice depth of field which makes the subject pop in any image. I had to do photography for my cousin's engagement and all I had in my arsenal were a Canon SL2/200D (crop sensor), 18-55mm Kit lens (28-80mm in crop sensor) and a 75-300mm telephoto lens (120-480mm in crop sensor). I knew very well that these lens and camera combination were not the best for a event photography. (trust me! I've tried! The results were not so great) and I was sceptical about renting lenses as I could not be as light headed as I usually am with my own lenses. So, I ordered the 50mm f/1.8 lens on 26th April, 2019 and got it on 27th April, a day before the engagement ceremony (Kudos to Amazon delivery). I tested the lens a day before the engagement and on the day of the engagement, 90% of the photoshoot was done with the 50mm prime lens with 18-55mm lens used only for wide angle group shots. The absence of image stabilisation is not an issue as the lens is light in weight. So, yes, the nifty fifty is a one size fits all kind of lens. However, my camera had a crop sensor (1.5~1.6X), which means the 50mm was actually giving me the field of view of an 80mm focal length. This meant that I had to physically move around a bit to get the framing right. If you have a full frame camera, 50mm would have the field of view of a 50mm. This field of view difference had me over thinking about whether to buy the 24mm f/2.8 (38mm in crop sensor) or the 50mm f/1.8. I finally pulled the plug on the 24mm, bought 50mm because of the 1.8 aperture and decided to compromise on the field of view. Also, the 50mm STM had 7 aperture blades which meant the bokeh would be nearly rounded. In the end, the pictures came out great and had that 'Professional Photographer Click' look to it, everyone loved it. This made the investment totally worth it. The only drawback with this lens would be the auto focus. While it is silent because of the STM motor, it is not the fastest. I did the entire day's photoshoot with Manual focus and the results were really good. So, I would suggest that you use this lens with manual focus only. So, in conclusion, if you are person who wants a relatively inexpensive lens with nice bokeh and depth of field, this lens is just hard to beat. (I will not be sharing photos from the engagement to protect the privacy of the people involved. But, I will share some unedited sample photos to give you an idea about the quality you get from the 50mm prime lens.)

普通に使えます。 15年前のレンズですけど、べたつきやレンズ内の埃ほとんどありませんでした。

L’objectif Objectif EF 50mm f/1,8 STM est tout simplement excellent ! Il est parfait pour les portraits, que ce soit des photos de profil, des portraits en buste ou même des clichés de petits objets. J’ai repris la photographie sérieusement depuis quelques mois avec un Canon 2000D, et j’ai réalisé plusieurs shootings en extérieur et en intérieur. Passer d’un objectif de kit à cet objectif change complètement la perspective et la manière d’aborder la photographie. Le fait de devoir se déplacer pour ajuster la distance et la composition est un vrai plus pour la créativité. Contrairement à un objectif de kit limité à f/4, cet objectif ouvre jusqu’à f/1.8, ce qui permet de magnifiques flous d’arrière-plan (bokeh) pour des portraits saisissants. J’ai vu d’autres objectifs de marques concurrentes sur Amazon, mais ils n’offraient pas le même système d’autofocus fluide et performant (STM). Je recommande vivement de choisir cet objectif Canon d’origine. Pour environ 30 € de plus par rapport à des alternatives, la qualité est irréprochable et cela vaut largement l’investissement. Je partage une petite photo de mon chat que j'ai pris avec lol. Rien à redire, je suis pleinement satisfait !

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