Customer Ratings & Reviews

Sony needs to work on the focusing mechanism on this because it is horrible, but it's very affordable, so this explains why it's crappy in some aspects, A 50 mm is such a crucial lens to have for the value so if you're a beginner I'd highly recommend it bec of the value and the extra training you'll get trying to focus on your subjects lol if you have the $$$, go snag you a zeiss 55 mm 1.4 prime lens! It'll cost you $700-1k but boy it's such a powerful lens, my buddy lets me take her for a spin and boy my shots come back crispy!!

I was reluctant on getting this lens at first because i thought the quality would be similar to the lens kit. After some research and taking a leap of faith, i decided to give this a go. Boy am i glad i did. My pics. turned out stellar. It was much easier to change the depth and contrast. Using less effort, i was able to capture beautiful photos with minimal adjustments. The result are these photos.

Excellent lens for telephoto, Basra te luminous f1.8 is really good to achieve a good bucket

Great for Portraits and car photography, been using it to take some pictures of my mustang, only downside is you have to step back a whole bunch of feet to get whatever it is you want in the shot

Love how this lens work the photos comes out so clean definitely recommend this if you a beginner and it’s great for portrait

Very solid lens. You can't go wrong with a "nifty 50." This is probably one of the best lenses for the price out there.

For the Sony lineup available, nice lens for the money. Better lenses out there, but I would recommend.

Great lens! Very sharp and great quality for the price!

Really good lens. The aperture provides really smooth bokeh.

Sharp budget friendly lens. Autofocus is a bit on the slow side though.

I'm using SEL50F18F with my Sony a5000. I wanted to buy SEL50F18 with optical stabilization and it's for aps-c but it costs more. So, I tried SEL50F18F and it never dissapointed me. I'm not using my camera for videos, so I'm happy with that lens. Good sharp portraits, great bokeh, beautiful colors in low-light.

I LOVE this lens. It is a GREAT buy especially at this price point.

I really like this lens with its f1.8 capability. A really good way to get a low aperture, but the only issue was with the colors. Noticed closely the green and pink colors popped out more than they should. No editing was done before or after the photo was shot. Still a great lens for the money, just with a couple of flaws.

I use it on my 5100a and for a beginner it’s a great lense!!!

This is excellent for portraits and you can get some really good shots depending on what you need to use it for. I use mine for mostly nature shots, toys and food. It mounts easily to any Sony cameras with an e-mount, although you can purchase adapters if you want to use it with Alpha mounts or some other brand name camera. Recommended.

No the best quality lens, the autofocus is alright not the best and it’s loud when is trying to focus

Title speaks for itself. This lens provides great background blur. Getting everything into frame can sometimes be a challenge depending on the type of shot you're trying to get. But portraits pretty much come out razor sharp every time.

I use this lens with my a7sii and I am quite impressed! The bokeh is amazing and this allows me to take smooth pictures in low light conditions. I'm no expert but this lens is a must-have in anyone's lens arsenal!

In the rainy/cold month that I have had this lens not much variety of pictures have been taken. Colors seem to pop and renders pretty bokeh. My only compmaint thus far is the auto focus seems to be constantly roaming trying to find something to lock onto. This could be from my new a7ii camera that was purchased at the same time. Once I figure out which piece of equipment is causing this I will update the review. But for the price I am happy! I didn't want to spend a huge amount of money while learning my camera and deciding which lens I want to shell out the big $$$ for.

Its sharp, handles focus just as fast as any other sony lens but thats a given since sony designs all there lenses to perform fast. The only bad things I can say are that if you shoot video, you'll need external audio source since the lens is noisy while focusing. Not super loud, but enough for the in camera audio to pick it up. The other thing is you get some chromatic Abberation from f1.8 to like f2.8 or f3.5 but now adays you can set a preset in your editing software to remove CA anyway so not a big deal. No time loss there. Great budget lens.