Customer Ratings & Reviews

Great lens especially for the price you really can’t beat it. Great in low light great for video.

For the price, this nifty fifth lens has the goods! Shot this with my Sony Alpha 1 body for a birthday party in low light and it was stellar! Can’t go wrong with this purchase!

My expectations were blown away! It is very clear and focused really well when I am shooting videos!

Best lens I’ve had so far, I use it for all my videos and photography since I got it

Exactly as advertised and produced even better than I could have anticipated

Nice prime lens with incredible optics for the price! Recommended only for the full frame lineup, for APSC cameras it turns into an 80mm from the 1.6x crop factor, which is only useful for macro photography

If this lens covers the basic, I would've given it 4 stars. But there are sub-par performance that made me go to 2, even thought of 1 at some point. I use A7S, A7R (v1), and A6000. Bought it twice, thinking the first one was defective. Checked the firmware, both are on 03 (the latest as of 12/19/20). Opening the box, I like the look and feel of it, minimalist... including with the lens hood (reversible, easier to carry). The only adjustable thing on the lens is the focus ring. Powered it on, it focuses with 1-2 back/forth, not fast, but acceptable... photo quality is decent. With the Pre-AF on I discovered the continuous intermittent hunting, like it never lock onto in focus. Odd, but okay, I disabled the Pre-AF, it stopped. I use AF-C with back button to focus; here the lens exhibit the same back/forth hunting like in Pre-AF as long as I hold the AF button, even still on a subject with lines in good light. Even while at times the box turned green, it would never finalize the focus and lock on. So AF-C = not usable. I'd still be okay with this, I even don't mind running it in MF (used to it with adapted lenses). But when testing it outside today, photographing some cars and motorcycles in a clear day, around noon. It failed to focus on what it seems an easy subject car. This is the last straw for me. This Sony 50mm f/1.8 FE-mount would've been a good basic lens if it can perform the basics: focusing in both AF-S and AF-C. Slower focus is okay for this price point, but need to nail it consistently. The 'nifty fifty' price is usually priced between $200-250. If I have to limit its usefulness... ie. resort to MF, $150 would've been the more appropriate price. The 50mm F/1.8 A-mount I bought for an older SLT-A55 for $200, works better than this using the LA-EA4 adapter on my 3 cameras above. For that reason, I'm returning this lens and can't recommended it.

Super great lens super worth buying recommend getting it

Great bang for buck and a very good upgrade from the kit lens on an a6000. The locked on 50mm plus cropped sensor 1.5x gives it a 75mm look to it. Tricky to get shots since you have to stand further away from subject but the sharpness for the price can’t be beat. I feel like this is almost a 85mm lens with the zoom I get, but like I said the picture that come out of this lens are crispy clear! The bokeh effect on this lens also looks amazing!!

I love the 1.8 fstop and the fact that it is a native sony lens. Very sharp and reliable for photography and video.

Excellent condition. very clear photos and video with this lens

Amazing lens for the price, crisp photos and video, only had one issue with focus breathing during videos but besides that amazing.

Great beginner lens! You just have to mess around with it a little and learn the settings!

I am extremely surprised by the quality of the photograph. The focus is perfect for short distances.

I bought this just before my trip to Washington DC and it worked out so well for me! Love that I can have. A bigger and smaller F stop. Gave me some really beautiful photos and can’t wait to use it more in the future!

I use this lens all the time all my photos are with this lens.

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.

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!!

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

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