Customer Ratings & Reviews

This product was a great buy. My daughter is a beginers photographer and she loves it.

This is perfect for the hobby shooter who wants professional looking portraits.

Great Lens with good apperture ideal for low light conditions

Friend of mine recommended this lens for close up pictures of my kids it works awesome worth every penny!

This lens is everything that I needed it to be and more.

Great lens and photo but you have to stand a bit away from the subject.

Has no issues.produces amazing portraits, good purchase.

This lens is a great fixed (or Prime) focal length lens. It has a huge aperture that can let on an enormous amount of light, and also allows for very smooth depth of field blur (or bokeh). It is suited mostly for more artistic shots and portraits or when low light without flash is required. The fixed length means that you have to move the camera to compose the shot, or crop the image in post, however the trade off is the huge aperture (F/1.4) and the great image quality you get from a prime lens. I would also suggest a hood when shooting outdoors or near bright light sources - I have picked up some lens flare from the sun even when it is not in the frame. It will also sometimes have trouble getting a focus lock if the aperture is set closer to wide open and the subject is moving due to the narrow depth of field and the subject shifting out of focus. Overall I would recommend this lens, especially if you want the artistic depth of field effect and particularly for portrait and natural light work.

nice beginner's lens as one gets started in photography

I have shot 5 other "fast" 50mm lenses from 3 manufacturers. This is by far the worst iteration of a 50mm f/1.4 lens that I have ever used. The lens is way to soft wide open - at least twice as soft as the Canon f/1.8 which is far less expensive. This lens also back focuses when shooting subjects further away, and front focuses when shooting subjects close up. Micro adjustments will not help. All of my photos looked like I smeared vasoline or crisco on the front element. Otherwise, the lens is built fairly well and focuses at a decent speed. I returned this lens. I guess I'll wait until Canon releases a refresh of the 1.4 like they did for the 1.8....

Would recommend this lens for anyone taking low light shots and portraits

I tried to purchase this product in store. It wasn’t in stock. Took a couple weeks to come in the mail. So I went to another location & purchased it! I love the results & feedback for my images.

I returned it I am sure it would have worked fine.

Len is okay but I thought the whole purpose is the focus. Thought about returning it but bestbuy wanted to charge 25% for restocking

Awesome lenses for a beginner. I would definitely recommend.

I rated this at 3 because of the focusing issues it has. It takes great pictures when it does focus but has trouble at times.

Not very pleased so far! Dosen't take clear images

Best purchase I’ve made in a while. Was def needed

I haven't had the chance to put it through a lot just yet but as of now its working out just fine.

Canon 50mm 1.8 is good for the price but motor nice is a issue.other than that good lens