Features:

  • The "Nifty Fifty" Has an 80mm Equivalent Focal Length (on APS-C Bodies @ x1.6 crop factor) 50mm Native on Full Frame Cameras
  • An excellent walk-around lens: Great for portraits, action, and nighttime photography
  • Minimum focusing distance of 1.15 ft. (0.35m) and a maximum magnification of 0.21x
  • Stepping motor (STM) delivers near silent, continuous Movie Servo AF for movies and smooth AF for stills
  • 80mm effective focal-length on APS-C cameras, 50mm on full-frame cameras
Affordable portrait lens

Such a great inexpensive lens! Definitely lives up to the nifty fifty nickname. Love using this for portraits! Works great with my old T6 and my new 6D Mii.

Great lens!

Exceptional except the connector is plastic. I can live with that though.

Great for price

This lens is a very good and cheap (compared to other lenses) lens that get the job done very very well. If your looking to do portrait photography this allows you to have that very nice bokeh. The lens is very sharp when set to f/2.8 and still fairly sharp when at f/1.8! Overall this lens is great if your looking to do Portrait photography! Please do note if your using a camera with a camera with a ape-c size censor the total focal length of this lens will be 80mm not 50mm if you use this on say a 5d mark ii it will be a 50mm lens. (To figure this out just do 50x1.6 you can do that with any lens.) I hope I helped!

I love it!

This lens has taken my photography to the next level! It works great! I’m used to the Kit lenses that zoom in and out so getting used to not having that feature has been interesting, however this was well worth the money!

Awesome lens! Lives up to its name, “The Nifty 50”

Love this camera lens! It’s perfect for videos, portraits, or product photography. Definitely a bargain lens! I highly recommend if you want a good bokeh effect while maintaining some clarity of image

Great up close and personal lens for the price!

I was very impressed with the quality of the pictures taken with this lens. For the price it seems like it would be a low end lens but the clarity in the pictures were amazing. You have to know what you’re doing and how to work a lens like this in order to get great clear quality pictures. They tuned out amazing. Perfect for newborn photography! Zooming into the pictures on my computer after I did a newborn photo shoot, I could see every detail.

Best Bang for the buck period!

I have a Canon 5DS-R Body I bought at launch along with a Canon 24-70 F2.8l II lens when I entered the hobby. I put the hobby aside until now (life issues) and decided to drag it all out of the safe and start making use of it years later. I always thought that if you had a zoom lens that you had all of your bases covered as far as focal lengths and you do, but for portraits and objects you want to stand out from the background the zoom lenses doesn't offer the same amount of separation as far as the blurred background. I decided to try a 50mm prime lens and I didn't want to spend a ton just to see if the difference was worth the investment and I can tell you it was. The bokeh is phenomenal on a prime lens and the difference is night and day. I bought this lens by mistake as I was not planning on buying the international version but the lens is the same as the US version with the only difference is you can't get the lens repaired under warranty here in the US is my understanding. This lens is super quiet and takes great photos for the price and I am happy with my purchase and saved a lot of money over the L series. I'm am a new to the hobby and definitely not a professional and I wouldn't be able to tell the difference between a $1350.00 and this $125.00 lens at this point. This lens is super light compared to the 24-70 lens I have now and I will probably leave this lens attached to the body from now on. This is a great lens especially for the money and would be a wise purchase if you want to test the prime lens niche without dumping a ton of money.The pic of our new puppy was shot at wide open at 1.8 and the blur starts really fast as you pull away from the right eye, probably should have shot this one at 2.8 or maybe 3.5 to clear up the face but you get the point. I may eventually but the L series of this lens one day but for a newbie hobbyist this one will work well for me into the foreseeable future. Buy it, I don't think you will regret it!

A novice's review: I love it!

This is my first fixed/prime lens and I love it. Portraits are fantastic, as are close-ups of people. I used it to shoot a friend's dimly lit indoor wedding reception and I captured some gorgeous shots. It is a more narrow field than that of which I am used, but group pictures looked cozy with everything needing to press in together. I feel this is an excellent tool to step up your photography from the standard kit. I now leave this lens on my camera all the time.

Canon's nifty 50 works as designed.

As a novice photographer this is a neat little lens that I am learning to enjoy. It makes me take my time and compose shots instead of 'cheating' myself by using a zoom to frame the subject of my photo. Photos using my t6 come out great with this lens. The small cleaning pen that comes with it is just meh. I would prefer the pen have the brush on one end and the felt circle on the other. The spray end doesn't do much for me.

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