Customer Ratings & Reviews

Love this lens, best fitness with my 50mm so I can get those wider photos and fit more people in group shots!

Love this lens!! The depth to field is great without paying thousands. It’s my new go to.

This inexpensive little prime offers great images at an affordable price. I use it daily for Fresh 48s due to its small size and light weight. It's not one of Canon's L lenses, but you're not paying the price, either. I have a good assortment of RF lenses, but this one spends the most time on my camera due to it being so light weight. There is a little vignetting on the images, but it's easily corrected in LR. I haven't had a chance to try it for landscape yet, but for newborns and closeups, it's a nice addition to the kit.

I recently added this 35mm lens to my collection, and it has quickly become my go-to for almost every situation. First off, the build quality is impressive; it feels sturdy and well-made, with smooth focusing and a compact design that makes it easy to carry around. The image quality is stellar—sharp even at wide apertures, with great contrast and beautiful color rendition. The f/1.8 (or f/1.4, if applicable) aperture gives a lovely shallow depth of field that’s perfect for portraits, and it performs well even in low light. I’ve also been able to get some incredible close-up shots, making it versatile for various types of photography, from street to landscape. I love the focal length as well—35mm is wide enough to capture a nice scene without feeling too distorted, yet it’s also intimate enough for portraits. It has really helped me improve my compositions and focus on framing my shots well. I highly recommend this lens to anyone looking for an affordable yet high-quality prime lens that works for a wide range of shooting styles. It's worth every penny!

Best bang for the buck in an absolute workhorse of a 35mm prime lens, weight and build are great. Only wish it was weathersealed….have to pay for that “L” fir something. Keep this in your loadout. Great for landscape and street photography

Picked this up when it was on sale and I’m so glad that I did. The RF lenses are in every way a superior build to the EF line. This is not a L series lens, but you’ll immediately notice the quality of this budget prime the first time you pick it up. It is fantastic in low light and even pretty good for macro photography with only minor chromatic aberrations with the aperture wide open at the edges. It finds its focus quickly for photography, and that quick focus slows down some for videography for a near silent focus when recording. Overall an excellent lens for the price and non-L series build that also includes lens Image Stabilization.

This lens is incredible, especially for the price. The new RF glass is truly crisp. Yes, you can get cheaper EF lenses but trust me there is a quality difference just to step up the price a little bit. The chromatic aberration on this lens is a lot less than my previous lenses. It isn't perfect but it can handle a lot more. The focus is a bit slow and noisy, however, for portrait sessions, I haven't found this to be a negative factor. With this being a budget lens on the RF line, I HIGHLY recommend picking it up. 90% of the time in my sessions this is the only lens I use. It is super versatile and lets you get up really close depending on what you are capturing.

Pretty sharp lens with good autofocus and built in image stabilization. Good size lens to walk around with for everyday shots.

If you need a really good lens that’s inexpensive, this is your glass. This focal length has many uses from portraits to street photography. Lens is built well at this price point. Wish it had weather sealing. Images are very good to excellent and is sharp at all aperture’s.

I can find no reason not to have it. Although it's cheap, but the image quality not cheap at all. It's so good. Very small size and light weight makes it a very good walk-around lens on your R body. The only downside of this lens is the focus speed when shooting video is a little bit slow and sometimes you can hear a little noise.

Lightweight and quiet. Excellent for macro and video. Perfect for the R50. Decent for low light because of IS and wide aperature. This lens stays on my camera most of the time.

PRO: - small, compact, lightweight - f/1.8 fast - IS image stabilized - Macro 1:2 -Customizable ring on lens, like for ISO or aperture etc. CON: - Macro is only half life size (1:2 vs ;) - Not professional L-lens

Great lens, perfect for what I’m using for videos has the automatic stabilizer

Love this lens!!! Im a huge fan of this focal length. Very convenient for street photography, travel, to every day portraits. A great all around value for this excellent lense

I love this little lens. It seems to work great in low light due to it's f1.8. 35 mm seems to me like a good size for natural looking photos like if you were just walking around. Sure, it isn't as great as some of the L lenses, but it is not $1,000's either. For the price, I am very happy with the performance of this lens. I am giving it a four star because I think that Canon could at least include a cheap hood for the lens. I did see some flaring in low light with bright lights around. A cheap lens hood seemed to fix that easily.

Great lens. It is important to note that this is my very first lens and I’m new to photography. However, simply from a viewers perspective this lens produces great stills. The build quality is solid. The aperture is great. Overall a great lens for all around use.

Amazing lens. This thing is crystal clear and at the right price. The Focal of 1.8 works great with low light and the built in IS really allows you to make quality content hand held.

Is perfect to my foodie photo, great texture, is tiny but powerful, great update for my work

Great lens for the price. I took it to the local aquarium to get some low light shots and this is not a bad lens for the money. Video recording was good too! Highly recommend!

Great prime lens. One thing about Canon lens they work and work well. I was able to use the lens at a Christmas party. The pictures are very good, great color and clarity