Product Description

Technical DataDimensions & Weight / Weightg130Technical DataDimensions & Weight / Lengthcm4.1Technical DataHeader / Product LineCanonTechnical DataHeader / LocalizationEnglishTechnical DataHeader / ManufacturerCanonTechnical DataHeader / Packaged Quantity1Technical DataLens System / TypeLensTechnical DataLens System / Lens ApertureF/1.8Technical DataLens System / Min Focal Lengthmm50Technical DataLens System / Min Focus Rangecm45Technical DataLens System / Focus AdjustmentManualTechnical DataLens System / Max View Angledegree(s)46Technical DataLens System Mounting / Mounting TypeCanon EFTechnical DataOptical System / Magnification0.15Technical DataDimensions & Weight / Diametercm6.8Technical DataLens System / System TypeLens

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #363 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Canon
• Model: 2514A011AA
• Released on: 2007-04-16
• Dimensions: 16.14" h x 26.85" w x 15.75" l, .29 pounds

Features

• Magnification - Extension Tube EF12 II: 0.56 -
• Magnification - Extension Tube EF12 II: 0.68 -
• Minimum Aperture: 22
• AF Actuator: Micro Motor
• The lightest EF lens of all at a mere 130g

Manufacturer's Description
This is the lightest EF lens of all at a mere 130g (4.6 oz). It's also very compact and delivers high-performance for a standard lens, with excellent colour balance. Its high-quality Gaussian optics provide sharp delineation from near-to-far focusing distances.

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Customer Reviews

Made my new camera sparkle
I've got a Canon 400D with the standard kit lens. It's OK but I was a little disappointed by the sharpness that it achieved. After quite a bit of reading up I'd heard so much good stuff about this relatively inexpensive lens that I decided to get one.

Most of my pictures are of my kids and many of them are indoors. This lens is great for portraits and because the aperture can be opened to 1.8 it gets enough light that flashless indoor pictures become feasible. The results are great. Nice, natural colours compared to the flash and as others have mentioned, the blurring of the distant background is very pleasing.

Having read that it had an old fashioned and noisy focus motor I was expecting something horrific which would cause people to look around if you were taking a picture in public. In reality it's marginally louder than the USM lenses and a little slower. We're talking 25% in my view. It's perfectly useable. In low light, manual focussing is preferable and is very easy. People also say the plastic housing is fragile. Well, if like me you've got a 400D with kit lens, it's not really any more plastic like than the either of those so don't be put off.

I've only had the lens one day and I've already taken some pictures which I'll treasure. Only downside of the lens is that at 50mm on a 1.6 ratio camera like the 400D it's a telephoto. In other words, you have to step back a bit to get everything in, so not ideal for indoor group shots. A 30mm lens would be better *but* the one I was looking at was three times more expensive and that's what swung it for this one.

GREAT LENS

I can only echo what other people say about this lens.

It isn't loaded with state of the art gizmos, it isn't built well and it'll probably break into a thousand pieces if you drop it......but who cares? For £70 you can go and buy another!

OK, so the AF micro motor is loud and it will hunt in low light, but this is not an L series lens. This little piece of Japanese plastic will take stunningly sharp pictures with great colour balance at all apertures. It focuses down to about 18 inches and, wide open, this lens will throw everything out of focus into a rich, creamy background blur on a par with lenses costing many times more.

If you've recently bought a DSLR/EF-S kit lens combination you will have seen the limitations of the lens when viewing pictures at 100%. You certainly won't be disappointed with the image quality of this lens. It is superb in all situations from portraiture to landscape and this lens really excels in low light. The lens has an 80mm equivalent on 1.6x crop-factor bodies and, as others have said, you will need to think more about composition - but one thing is for certain....you will never regret buying this lens.

It is a cheap and obvious progression from the low quality kit lenses that many people encounter through their first DSLR camera.

I don't work for Canon either, but if I did, I'd sell thousands of these!!

Wow, what a difference
Having last year bought a DSLR (350D) with a zoom lens and then experienced its limitations with quality (poor sharpness) and inconsistant AF focussing (hit and miss to say the least) I decided to buy this prime lens to see if that helped improve the situation. Wow, what a difference, this is a real corker for the price. The images captured with this lens is in a different league - pin sharp even at high ISO's and fantastic replication of colour and levels. Yes it is plastic and will hunt if the subject is not central but it gets a highly recommended from me.