Canon EF 50MM F/1.8 STM Lens for Canon DSLR Cameras

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.)

First of all thanks to Amazon and the seller for quick delivery. Now let me tell you a little about myself .I am an hobbyist photographer . I have a Canon 500D with Standard Zoon 18-55mm kit lens and a 55-250mm Telephoto lens. This is my first prime lens. If you have a standard 18-55mm kit lens you might have always felt the need to have a larger aperture to get good low light shots. Canon's EF 50mm f/1.8 lens fulfils that need at a very reasonable price. Just 1 month back Canon released this lens. So, now if you want a Canon 50mm f/1.8 lens ,you've got two options , either get this lens with a Stepper Motor for autofocusing or get the earlier version of Canon's EF 50mm lens that had a micromotor. I will compare this lens(EF 50mm f/1.8 STM) with the previous version(EF 50mm f/1.8 II) based on different reviews I have read and based on my personal findings:- Pros of this lens : - 1 - The build quality of this lens is very good compared to the previous lens and this lens has metal mount and therefore more durable and it is smaller in size too. 2- The lens is Silent while focusing if you compare it to the previous lens and the autofocus is a bit faster to lock on an object. It is not very silent if you compare it to 18-55mm STM lens 3- If you shoot mostly video then this lens is very good , it focuses faster and makes much less noise while focusing 4- The Bokeh of this lens is much better looking than the previous one , its much rounder and softer and gives smooth transitions when you change aperture in video mode. 5 - If you half press the shutter button in the one shot mode , you can adjust the focus ring and therefore in a way you get full-time manual focusing with this lens which you dont get in the previous version. 6- This lens is a bit sharper at the widest aperture and also uses Canon's modern Super Spectra coating, to avoid lens flare Cons of this lens:- 1- The only negative point I could find while comparing it with previous lens is that the manual focus works only when the camera is attached to the lens and is switched on and not in sleep mode which is true with every lens with Stepper Motor. So , if you're using normal extension tubes for macro photography then this may not be very helpful but you could always move the lens near and far to the object to achieve the focus but it would not be hassle free. So, for this purpose the previous ver lens is much better. In Conclusion , this lens is much better than the previous one , So go for it without even thinking. I didnt had much time to use this lens but attaching a few pics I have taken so far with this lens. Edit 1- I made a timelapse of Clouds with this lens , find it here -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zez3j9uZ8Q&fb

HIGHLIGHTS: excellent image quality, compact form factor and affordable pricing, but with few concessions in build and AF performance. CONSTRUCTION: Slightly smaller and heavier than the prior model, EF 50 1.8 II, aka nifty-fifty, but with significantly better build quality. Improvements include metal mount, sturdier barrel and AF/MF switch, larger focus ring, grippy matte finish and stepping motor (STM). Unfortunately, it has an odd filter size, 49mm, rather than 52 or 58mm common to small Canon lenses. OPTICAL QUALITY: It's the same optical formula as the nifty-fifty, but with tweaks to lens coatings and improved close focus ability. Wide open it's tack sharp center frame, sharper than my nifty-fifty. Corners on full frame, e.g., 6D, are darker and softer than center but equalize by F2.8. On APS-C cameras, e.g., 70D and Rebel, there is little corner darkening or softness since nearly half the image circle is cropped out. Optimal sharpness is at F5.6. Chromatic aberration (CA) is mild and reduced over the nifty-fifty. In short, image quality is excellent open wide, even better stopped down and one ups the nifty-fifty in both sharpness and control of CA. BOKEH: I love the soft whirl of a defocused background, and this seven-blade diaphragm does not disappoint, rendering smooth bokeh and pleasantly round specular highlights. The smooth bokeh combined with pin sharp center frame really make subjects pop at larger apertures. This a great portrait lens! AUTO FOCUS speed and reliability is markedly better than the nifty-fifty. It's accurate and rarely misses focus even in low light. Focus is achieved by front element extension (nested barrel. The STM motor is quieter than the prior model, albeit not completely silent. VIDEO FOCUS on a 70D is not as fast as STM zooms but buttery smooth and great for touchscreen pulls and Movie Servo. Focus noise, while low volume, was recorded by my 70D's built-in mic during quiet video clips. The workaround is to use an external mic or prefocus. MANUAL FOCUS is focus-by-wire: the ring merely activates the focus motor and is not mechanically coupled to the lens. Manual focus is smooth, but control isn't as good as a mechanical ring. The MF ring is thin but wider than the nifty-fifty's ring and better positioned. Like USM lenses, it has Full-Time Manual (FTM), allowing AF override without flipping a switch: simply turn the MF ring. Unlike USM lenses, FTM is only active when the shutter button is half-depressed. HOOD: The groove on the barrel is for the Canon ES-68, locking bayonet hood. It attaches to the outer barrel, protecting the protruding inner barrel from frontal impact and flare. It's pricy but a worthwhile investment. Update (8/16/2015): The JJC LH-68, a clone of the ES-68, is now available at less than half the cost of OEM. FINAL BLURB: The natural perspective and fast aperture make the EF 50 1.8 STM ideal for low light, travel and street photography with a full frame camera (6D). On a cropper, e.g., Rebel or 70D, it's a short telephoto and perfect for portraits, indoor sports and stage. Canon got everything right with this redesign: accurate and snappy AF, sturdy build and, most significantly, vivid and sharp images wide open. And Get 10% Casshback in Amazon pay wallet by Ordering through wplov.in/4.

It was a toss-up between the YongNuo and this one. But I am glad I did not choose the cheaper one to save a little money. (The difference is not much now, though the performance blows the cheaper one out of the water). The overriding factor was the motor noise. This one is close to silent, not the Yongnuo. The older version of the Canon 50mm seemed pretty much equal to the Yongnuo in performance as well as build quality. In fact, the older Canon actually had less-perfect Boken than the new version or the Yongnuo. So this is a major change. The primary purpose was video shooting, but the still photography, especially portraits, is fantastic with this one. The attached photos were taken in pretty low light conditions. Although I am no expert photographer, even an amateur like me ended up with great looking shots which were otherwise impossible with the kit lens. For beginners, coming from kit lenses, this might seem a little baffling to move closer to or farther from the subjects to get proper framing, so the temptation always exists to reach for the lens and rotate it to focus. Maybe it will improve the photography skills too. The Bokeh is pretty much what I expected it to be, although the colour tinge shows up slightly on the warmer side. Great for portrait photography. The build quality is also great. It does not feel plasticky or cheap at all. Video shooting is pretty good, but the focusing is slow at times. Pretty much follow the rule of Shutter, ISO, frame rate and you are good to go to make great movies. I might add, even with non-professional lighting. I might have regretted buying the YongNuo, but I am so glad that I decided against it. This might be something that is tempting to most cost-conscious buyers, but go right ahead and take the plunge. This one is worth it! And the difference in cost is not so much now, but the difference in results is nothing short of amazing. Go for it- highly recommended by just another amateur photographer. PS: About the attached photos. The cat pictures were taken in almost completely dark conditions, with only a night lamp for illumination. The outdoor photos were clicked in overcast and dark, rainy, cloudy weather. How beautiful the low-light photography seems even with inept skills!

Let's start with the build quality. It's a very well built piece of kit, and feels solid, though it's made of plastic. It brings back the metal mount from the first 50 mm f/1.8 from 1990 and adds to it a silent and decently​ quick STM motor for autofocusing. The manual focus ring is no more of that flimsy plastic found in the mark ii version. It's very easy to grip, and is broader, and hence allows for precise focusing. One thing to bear in mind is that since the manual focus ring is coupled to the STM motor, you can manually pull focus only when the shutter button is pressed halfway down. Rotating it at any other time will do nothing. Moving on to the most important thing. It's optics and the picture quality it produces. Well, there's no difference between the picture quality back from the mark i and the mark ii versions. However, I have found out that the STM version produces pictures with slightly lesser colour fringing / chromatic aberration as compared to the mark ii. But apart from that, it's all pretty much the same. You'll be very impressed with the way it makes pictures, especially portraits look and feel so professional. Picture quality is way better than the 18-55 mm f/3.5-5.6 kit lens, to say the least. Also, you get a much more blurred out of focus background, thanks to the maximum aperture of f/1.8. What this also means is that you'll get much better low-light performance as compared to the kit lens. One final point I'd like to make here is that the lens' focal length and maximum aperture is advertised as what it would be on a full-frame camera. To find out what would be its APS-C (cropped frame) equivalent, just multiply both, the focal length and the aperture by a factor of 1.6 on Canon cameras and by 1.5 on Nikon and Sony cameras (just for reference). So, what we end up with on an APS-C camera is an 80 mm f/2.88 ~ f/2.9 lens. While f/2.9 isn't the brightest of apertures, it certainly produces nice and smooth bokeh as you'd expect. And now that the STM version has 7 curved aperture blades as compared to the 5 straight edge ones found on the mark ii, you get much rounder bokeh balls when the lens is stopped down, say to f/2.8. To conclude, let me tell you that if you've had your kit lens for sometime now and have learnt the basics of using the DSLR, this really should be your next purchase if you're looking to step up your photography game. And while getting a zoom lens for about 2-3k more sounds pretty tempting (something like the Tamron/Sigma 70-300mm f/4-5.6), trust me, you can't go wrong with this one. Go for it, you won't regret it. :)

Beginner friendly, fast auto focus

The EF 50mm f/1.8 STM is an upgrade of the old standard (and much-loved) EF 50mm 1:1.8 II. The optics are said to be very similar, but with the new lens there is a clear improvement in centre sharpness at f/1.8. Focusing is also faster, smoother and quieter thanks to the Stepper Motor (STM). Incidentally, the STM provides much-improved video focus tracking. The STM lens is heavier and more solid in feel than the old one and has a metal lens mount as opposed to plastic. The leaf photograph attached shows the fantastic DOF (Depth of Field) control possible with f/1.8. The second shows the amazing resolving power at f/8. This is a lens no Canon shooter's camera bag should be without! Also, it is worth noting that on APS-C bodies, the angle of view will be equal to that of an 80mm lens, making it just perfect for beautifully controlled portraits and studio work. An added plus, of course, is the cost - I don't know of any other lens that delivers such great performance at such a low price. Highly recommended for enthusiasts and professionals alike. Just get one - you'll never regret it. (Professionals who find it hard to accept this statement should test the MTF of the f/1.4 50mm @ 1.8 with this one's MTF wide open (1.8). The results are surprising !

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Bu urunu bi kac yerden aldım ve kutularından dolayı iade ettim, ancak bu satıcıdan aldığım urun canonun kendi kutusu ve bandroluyle geliyor. Oldukca iyi bir lens temiz, ve iyi paketlenmis olarak geldi.

Se hai appena acquistato una reflex Canon o se scatti da tempo ma hai usato solo l'obiettivo del kit (il classico 18-55mm), questo 50mm f/1.8 STM cambierà il tuo modo di vedere la fotografia. È probabilmente l'obiettivo con il miglior rapporto qualità-prezzo dell'intero catalogo Canon. Perché acquistarlo: Nitidezza sorprendente: Già a f/1.8 i risultati sono buoni, ma chiudendo leggermente il diaframma (verso f/2.8 o f/4) la nitidezza diventa tagliente, superando di gran lunga molti zoom costosi. Effetto Bokeh (Sfondo sfocato): Grazie all'apertura f/1.8, permette di isolare il soggetto con uno sfondo piacevolmente sfocato. È l'obiettivo perfetto per i ritratti. Motore STM: Rispetto alla vecchia versione (il "plastic canyon"), questo modello ha il motore passo-passo (STM), che rende la messa a fuoco molto più fluida e silenziosa, un grande vantaggio se si girano video. Compattezza: È minuscolo e leggerissimo. Rende la fotocamera molto meno ingombrante e meno "aggressiva" durante la street photography o gli eventi in famiglia. Costruzione migliorata: Finalmente l'innesto è in metallo, molto più resistente rispetto alla versione precedente in plastica. Considerazioni da fare: Lunghezza focale fissa: Non c'è lo zoom. Per inquadrare dovrai muoverti fisicamente tu (il che è un ottimo esercizio per imparare a comporre l'immagine). Mancanza di stabilizzazione: Non è stabilizzato (IS), ma data l'ampia apertura del diaframma, riuscirai comunque a scattare con poca luce senza troppi problemi. Verdetto finale: È l'obiettivo che ti fa innamorare della fotografia. Che tu sia un principiante che vuole imparare a gestire la profondità di campo o un esperto che cerca una lente leggera da tenere sempre in borsa, il 50mm STM è una garanzia.

The Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 STM is a compact and lightweight lens that works well for portraits, everyday photography, and low-light situations. Its wide aperture creates pleasing background blur, while STM autofocus is smooth and relatively quiet. The fixed focal length also encourages more thoughtful composition. Since this is an international version, confirm local warranty coverage before purchasing. Overall, it offers excellent image quality and value.

Nice little prime lens. Compact and lightweight. Good addition to my lenses

Bueno este objetivo debería de estar en la mochila de todo fotógrafo, novel que quiera dar un paso de calidad en sus fotografías. Tiene un precio ridículo en relación a lo que puede ofrecer. No es el mejor objetivo que existe por supuesto, pero posiblemente sea el objetivo que mejor calidad ofrezca en relación a su precio. Si tienes una canon réflex o de objetivos intercambiables, y nunca has usado una lente de focal fija (Prime), hazte con ella y disfruta, aprende a moverte sin zoom y a saber lo que da de si en nitidez tu cámara. He tenido tanto este modelo STM como el 1.8 II, y es aconsejable ir a por este, puesto que por muy poco dinero más, tiene una construcción bastante más decente, además el sistema de enfoque es menos ruidoso (ojo no es silencioso, pero en el modelo 1.8 II llega a ser un poco molesto). NOTA: He probado este objetivo en una sony A7r2 con el adaptador Metabones y su enfoque es rapidísimo. Si podeis hacer la prueba os lo aconsejo. salu2 Esto es una valoración real, no de un producto regalado. Si te ha sido útil por favor indícalo. Si quieres hacerme alguna pregunta, contestaré lo antes posible.