Customer Ratings & Reviews

Omg!! This helped make my picture’s way more gorgeous! It really made a difference in my portrait photos! And such a wonderful price point!

In talking with the fantastic folks at Best Buy, namely the employee that hosts the Saturday classes, he recommended this lens for taking great portrait photos. He was right in! This lil Lens is amazing!!! If you want to capture a face and blur the surroundings....this is it!!

Bought this lens to accompany by 80D body (purchased body alone without kit lens) and am really loving the bokeh effect I'm able to get out of this lens. I'm actually loving the fact that I can't zoom in and out because it forces me to think more creatively about my shots.

You can never go wrong buying a 50mm prime lens as it is a must-have lens in your arsenal. This is really affordable and bought it for a friend. He claims that it is exceptional.

I've been using a 50mm prime lens for about 5 years, and I decided to upgrade it to this newer version. Speed of focusing, glass, and overall improved greatly. Very very happy with this purchase! 50mm are a must have in my book, the 1.8 aperture is great in low lighting situations!!

I purchased this lens as a backup for creative work I was doing with my Canon D6. The lens fits perfectly and performs as expected. It's well constructed and the lens is high quality.

Prime lens is really good for capturing candid pics

Great product! I would recommend it to anyone learning photography. The price you pay for it is nothing compared to the quality you get and the memories you will have and share!

I took this to a convention and got some really good photos out of it. On an 80d though, this lens is really a bit over 70mm? Anyway, the point of my comment is that you will need space when taking full person shots. So hallway cons suck. Other than that it's great

This has been a great purchase. I recommend to anyone looking for a close up lens.

Best Lenses Ever. This thing is so small but the results do not disappoint.

I wonderful lense at a great price! This is one of my go to lenses... great bokah.

Great for the price. A good starter lens and a must have for many situations.

I am new at photography, well, learning how to take great photos. In all the photography books that I have read so far, this was the recommended lens for beginners. So far, I love it. I'm sure I will love it further when I understand camera functions and shot selections better.

I love this lens! I have been able to get great shots in low light. I love having more options of depth of field too. It does everything I wanted when I purchased it!

The Canon product is excellent. The BB team knowledgeably advised and helped determine the correct lens for our needs. They let us try out the demo version and when the store we were in did not have stock, they found a nearby BB that had it in stock, helped us make the sale, and reserved it for us to pick up at the other store. This process also included a return which the friendly staff made a very easy and reasonable process for us to do. Great in-store experience. One criticism is that the BB computer system is overall slow to implement a purchase at one store and a pick-up at another. A 'wait period' of at least an hour was recommended by the staff due to a 'slow system'. Given everything else was real-time, including finding and putting on hold the product in stock at the nearest store, it seems reasonable to expect that there should be in-company computer communication that is commensurate with comparative network inventory systems.

I can't give a proper review without reply using this lens. I must admit I wonder if I should have gone with the 1.4 vs the 1.8 but that was always going to be the case. I think getting a hood will make a huge difference so I am in search for that now as I start to utilize more. The lens does seem more study then the original 50 but I know everyone loves the non stm 50. So far it's a great lens! I'm not a professional photographer so it should be enough as a hope to get better. I would give this 5 stars if I had a better handle on this lens I'm sure, but put for just in case.

I am glad to have added this lens to my collection, awesome choice for landscapes or portraits.

very good for what it’s designed for. easy to use and works like it should

I like this camera a lot! I’ve used it for a few years. I liked it for a beginner camera. It was easy to figure out how to use!