Canon - EF 50mm Lens - Black
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The Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 STM Lens is a compact and versatile normal-length prime ideal for everyday photography, offering a bright f/1.8 aperture that enhances low-light performance and allows for precise depth-of-field control. Designed for full-frame Canon EF-mount DSLRs, it also functions effectively on APS-C models with an 80mm equivalent focal length. Its optical design features Super Spectra coating to reduce flare and ghosting, ensuring strong contrast and accurate color in backlit or harsh lighting. The lens incorporates a smooth, near-silent STM stepping motor for fast autofocus, supported by advanced algorithms and a high-speed CPU, along with full-time manual focus override. A durable metal mount, repositioned focusing ring for compactness, and a rounded seven-blade diaphragm that produces pleasing bokeh round out this well-balanced and capable lens.
Features
Feature 1
50 millimeter focal length and maximum aperture of f/1.8
Feature 2
Great for portraits, action, and nighttime photography; Angle of view (horizontal, vertical, diagonal): 40�, 27�,46�
Feature 3
Minimum focusing distance of 1.15 feet (0.35 meter) and a maximum magnification of 0.21x
Feature 4
Stepping motor (STM) delivers near silent, continuous move Servo AF for movies and smooth AF for stills
Feature 5
80 millimetre effective focal length on APS C cameras, 50 millimetre on full frame cameras. Lens construction: 6 elements in 5 groups
Specifications
- Lens Mount CompatibilityCanon EFLens TypeStandard PrimeMinimum Focal Length50 millimetersMaximum Focal Length50 millimetersMaximum Aperturef/1.8
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The Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 STM Lens is a compact and versatile normal-length prime ideal for everyday photography, offering a bright f/1.8 aperture that enhances low-light performance and allows for precise depth-of-field control. Designed for full-frame Canon EF-mount DSLRs, it also functions effectively on APS-C models with an 80mm equivalent focal length. Its optical design features Super Spectra coating to reduce flare and ghosting, ensuring strong contrast and accurate color in backlit or harsh lighting. The lens incorporates a smooth, near-silent STM stepping motor for fast autofocus, supported by advanced algorithms and a high-speed CPU, along with full-time manual focus override. A durable metal mount, repositioned focusing ring for compactness, and a rounded seven-blade diaphragm that produces pleasing bokeh round out this well-balanced and capable lens.

Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 STM Standard Lens: Capture important moments in your life with this standard lens, which works with your compatible Canon DSLR EF-mount camera. A circular aperture with 7 blades helps you add creative background blur.

Compact and lightweight-an outstanding walk-around lens-Canon's EF 50mm f/1.8 STM is a great entry into the world of EOS prime lenses. With an 80mm effective focal-length on APS-C cameras, 50mm on full-frame cameras, it's an excellent prime lens for portraits, action, even nighttime photography. Its bright maximum aperture of f/1.8 helps it not only to excel in low light, but also to capture gorgeous, sharp images and movies with beautiful background blur thanks to its circular 7-blade design. An updated lens arrangement with new lens coatings helps render images with excellent color balance, plus minimized ghosting and flare. Performance is brilliant, with a stepping motor (gear-type STM) to deliver near silent, continuous Movie Servo AF for movies plus speedy, smooth AF for stills. A redesigned exterior with improved focus ring placement makes manual focus adjustments a breeze. Canon's most compact 50mm lens, the EF 50mm f/1.8 STM has a rugged metal mount, plus an improved minimum focusing distance of 1.15 ft. (0.35m) and a maximum magnification of 0.21x. Offering sharp performance for the best in movies and stills, it's a fixed focal length gem-the perfect lens for photographers and moviemakers to expand the creative possibilities with their EOS cameras.

Some items like your keys or wallet you just take everywhere you go because you just never know. For anyone with an EOS R series camera, add the RF50mm F1.8 STM lens to that list. As part of the EOS R System, it’s nice and compact thanks to its RF mount so you can shoot – and get a great shot – anywhere and anytime. Size isn’t all though. As a fixed focal length lens, it lets you be creative with composition and can be used for a wide range of scenes from snapshots to portraits, landscapes to low-light situations and more. Those images will stand out, too, just like you intend whether on social media, or when sharing or printing, thanks to impressive optical features like a PMo aspherical lens to suppress aberrations, Super Spectra coating to reduce flaring and ghosting, and a large f/1.8 aperture for low-light shooting and beautiful bokeh. Pick it up and use it one time and you’ll see for yourself, and you won’t be able to leave the house without it.
| Pros for Canon - EF 50mm Lens - Black | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| There were no pros for this product— | Price, Ease of use, Lens Quality, Overall Performance, Background Blur | There were no pros for this product— | Price, Ease of use, Image Quality, Aperture, Size |
| Cons for Canon - EF 50mm Lens - Black | |||
| There were no cons for this product— | Auto Focus | There were no cons for this product— | Chromatic Aberration |
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