Customer Ratings & Reviews

I purchased this lens a few weeks ago and have been using it since then mostly for portrait photography on my Canon Rebel T3. The lens focuses relatively quickly and silently thanks to the STM motor, it's clear and sharp in the center of focus, and has very nice bokeh/DOF especially wide open at f1.8, great lens if you are looking to get into portrait photography or street photography.

I was recently pushed by a friend to purchase my first prime lens. I wasn't sure which one I wanted, the 35 mm or the 50 mm. I am so so so happy with my decision on the 50 mm. Its perfect for portrait photography, if that's something you are looking to use it for. I absolutely love this lens its silly. I have been using it a lot when I photograph engagement shoots and senior portraits, since it's light weight and I can carry it for great distances on a shoot - and not feel weighed down. Got to love my nifty fifty.

So I picked up this lens to just start shooting with my camera I just bought, and I'm blown away by the quality it gives off and if you can find like the right balance between focal point and aperture then you will get some pretty stellar pictures out of it

I’m just beginning my photography career, and I don’t have tons of money to drop on lenses right now. This lens is amazing quality for the price, especially for macro photography and portrait photography. This lens is best for the sharp subject and blurry background effect. I’m so glad I got this.

An excellent lens it's great for taking portraits among other things. Photos are unedited.

this lens is AMAZING but if you’re looking for a zoom in and out option this is not the right one for you but as far as picture quality ITS WONDERFUL!!!

It was good and takes amazing pictures! I truly loved the product and haven’t stopped using it since!

works well in a variety of light conditions. Auto focus struggles under dimmer light conditions. Manual focus compensates well at that point. It gives very nice results when shooting portraits, and action shots. I am able to capture good images in continuous shooting mode.

Very nice quality! i 100% recommend this for beginners!

Just a beginner in the realm of DSLR photography so I appreciate the other reviews for this lens; they helped me make a decision on purchase (the price-point doesn't hurt either). So getting this lens out of the box and onto my camera was quick and fast and in no time I was snapping pictures of our dogs with a nice blurred background thanks to the low f stop at 1.8. really makes a huge difference in a picture and I am thrilled to have this lens in my inventory. True to the saying, a picture is worth a thousand words so I'll let the attached photo do the bulk of the talking!

This lens is so amazing! Anyone can become a professional photographer with this lens! You just need to play around with it a bit to get used to it, and you’re all set! I highly recommend this lens to everyone especially beginners!

The lense I’ve been needing. I’ve been hearing so many people rave about it and man am I so happy I got it. Im still fairly new to using a camera but this lense is definitely worth it. I will display a picture with no edits. It captured color and I love that!

I love this lens!! My pictures turned out amazing!!

As a beginner (just got my camera a few days ago), this lens is fool proof!! Sharp, bright photos every time. I cannot believe the quality of this lens for an affordable amount.

Bought this for my T7i, primarily for the wide aperture. With such a low price point, I wasn't expecting a lot from the lens, but I have been surprised on multiple fronts. The quick, accurate, silent focus was the first thing that impressed me, and the overall quality of the images followed shortly thereafter. Well worth the money.

This product is amazing. Lens is by far the best for its price. Also best buy associates were very helpful with assisting me in making the right purchase.

I bought this to take pics of my plants for my business and I absolutely love it. Way better than expected.

I am a beginner. Lena has good functioning for dark places.

Ah, the “nifty fifty”! This is without question the best-selling lens from Canon, maybe even of all lenses. Its high price to performance ratio is the reason for this. It can be useful on both crop and full frame, and should probably be every beginners first upgrade lens,

Great budget lens, its impressive what you can do with this especially in low light settings. Can't think of a better lens for beginners.