Customer Ratings & Reviews

From the minute I bought this lens, it has not come off my camera! The crisp shots with a prime lens have been perfect for portraits, groups photos, landscaping, etc. With its durability as the cherry on top, this is the all around perfect lens!

For what you’re paying for this lens, it’s just silly not to buy one. Produces great photos, it has a wide aperture, and a very nice and snappy auto focus. There’s a reason it’s called the Nifty Fifty, practically any photographer you ask will have or have had this lens at some point. You don’t have to use it just for portraits either, go out there and play with it, you won’t be disappointed! Note to buyers, it does NOT have IS so it’s not exactly the greatest for making videos unless you use a tripod. Also the AF isn’t exactly whisper quiet and the noise will definitely be picked up by a mic mounted on the camera.

Great affordable lens. Its lightweight and takes great pictures.

This lens offers great values for the price. Not only it is lightweight, it also gives a nice feel. This canon EF 50mm lens also allows for awesome background blur.

Camera lens make a difference in quality. There is no point of buying a camera without upgrading the lens. Unfortunately the lens that come with cameras usually are good but there is a huge advantage of upgrading your lens for best quality.

This lens produces nice images, fantastic quality, and an amazing bokeh effect. Its very light weight and can hardly tell you have a lens on the body. Depth of field and apeture variety is brilliant. Good lens for the price.

It's a nifty little prime. I'd say it is well worth the purchase for a new photographer. This model has a better build quality than an earlier one with a plastic mount and no STM, which was also a nice lens.

Wonderful lens for mind blowing photos . So much depth

This lense produces great images with a great shallow depth of field all while being incredibly cheap. Would recommend for any photographer, new, or experianced.

Worked well, easy to use, takes great photos for the price

Just started using this lens and it has great quality. It’s a great beginner lens

Was looking forever for a good fixed prime lens to shoot portraits. Wasnt too sure if i should get the 1.4 or the 1.8 stm, so happy i went with the 1.8 stm, its lighter and way cheaper!!!

Really great lens. Easy to use. It’s a bit different than the lenses I had used before but I really like it.

If you just bought a canon camera and you've been using the lens it came with, this is the first lens you should get. You just can't beat the value for money here. It's small, light, lets in a ton of light, and it's cheap. what else do you need?

This is a great lens. Some of the reviews said the motor is noisey, but I don't here it. The picture quality is good. the price was reasonable.

Great quality and ease of use. Very good for portrait mode. Captures objects very well and captures depth automatically.

Great lens. Works perfectly. Highly recommend purchasing.

This lens should be a staple in any photographers kit bag. The background blur is off the charts, you go from looking like an armature to a real pro real quick with lens. It has a metal connection ring which fits nice an snug against the camera body(previous versions had plastic). This lens does not has IS(image Stabilization) , so you should have a steady hand or tripod in use. It is pretty solid and dead on throughout all the aperture stops. And for under 130.00 you get a lot of bang for your buck.

I just bought a Canon 80d only the body, I didn’t want the kit lense. So I did my research and everybody raves about this lense. And for good reason, Best purchase I’ve made. It’s cheaper and the quality is so good. Highly recommend it!

Great Lens for the Portrait Shoot. crispy clear pics. It will not replace 18 55 mm lens for its easy to use. Easy to focus and very light weighted. Easy to carry;