Customer Ratings & Reviews

This lens is a wonderful addition to my Canon DSLR photography equipment. While other lens can be used for portraits, the bocca with this lens is awesome!

I bought this lens expecting to be able to take some decent pictures without breaking my budget. Instead, I was able to take great pictures on a budget! I'll skip the superlatives and simply say that this lens is, by far, the best investment that you can make for your first lens after the kit lens you probably got with your camera. The f/1.8 aperture will give you a great deal more flexibility, whether you're practicing photography as art or just wanting to capture memories. The only real downsides to this lens are durability and noise. Neither of these are severe problems for me. I don't expect to be in any quiet locations that the motor noise would be a distraction. And, at this price, if it breaks it wouldn't be much of a burden to have to buy another.

This is a must have lens for any photographer, both professional and amateur! Love the dynamic that this lens gives when taking pictures of people.

This is a great value for a lens and works well with portraits since it adds the blur to the background and focuses on the focal point. Very simple and fun to play with. This is my second purchase of this lens since I dropped my and shattered it in the trade center museum. It is an affordable lens which makes me not scared to use it and not be devastated when I dropped it.

Bought this lens after reading some good reviews about it and it turned out to be a supper great lens for its price for me. Great picture quality.

Bought this bad boy over a month ago and brought it for our trip up North, I should say this lens is absolutely wonderful. The sharpness of the images is somewhat comparable to the more expensive Canon lenses. With the 1.8 aperture, this lens is great for portrait shots. It's feels plastic but gets the job done. If you take good care of your lenses, you'll have no problem with this.

This lens is just amazing. I use it all the time and I believe this lens is the best to use when you just started learning about photography.

Loved this lens the moment I first used it. Bought specifically for Christmas family pictures and everyone was very impressed with the results

This is a must for anyone that owns a SLR!! It's easy to use and doesn't wonders if you want to get fancy and creative with your shoots.

Invaluable at twice the price. Absolute essential for a photographer of any skill level. Excellent for producing bokeh effect naturally.

This lense is perfect for close ups and can be just left on the camera for quick and on the go pics. I do not like that it does not have a wider lense to catch a full view of your subject. This lense is good quality and inexpensive

I love this so much! Perfect lens for photography! I use mine for sessions!! All the time!

Best most affordable lens EVER! I'm beating myself up for waiting this long :( It does exactly what I want I'm in LOOOOOOOOVE!!!

This is the second lens I have owned. The first being the kit lens. This is a great upgrade, especially for the price. I already notice a difference in my picture quality and the DOP is amazing on my Canon Rebel T3. I would recommend this lens to anyone who is interested in learning more about photography but doesn't want to invest a lot of money.

if you have the money go for the f1.4, since it is built better with the metal housing. However, that will come with a price about 4X more that this lens. For the price, this lens does an excellent job in low light situations and takes very sharp beautifully colored pictures.

The lens is great and considering the hybrid plastic lens, gets great light! The lens is very light due to the construction and provides great depth in photos as you can blur out areas beyond the subject of focus.

I'm in the process of learning more about photography and lenses. I loves shooting portraits, kids, families, etc. I've used this lens a couple of times and the ability to have that large f/1.8 aperture has given me great results to really focus on the subject. The background blurs perfectly and I am having a lot of fun with this new lens!

This lens is very inexpensive yet very good quality. You can achieve professional images without having to break the bank.

Great picture quality from a very inexpensive lens. I would recommend getting a lens hood for it so it is more protected.

this is absolutely fantastic clear high quality pictures from this lens excellent excellent excellent I can't say enough