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

• 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
EOS digital SLRs are backed up by the world's most comprehensive system of interchangeable lenses. From 14mm ultra wide angle to 600mm super telephoto, the 60+ lenses in the EF series cover all possible shooting requirements. See the world from new perspectives. Capture your vision through the eyes of EOS.

Fixed focal length lenses generally offer a wider maximum aperture than zoom lenses. From ultra-wide angle lenses ideal for indoor shooting to long telephoto lenses extensively used for wildlife, sports and news photography Canon has the fixed focal length lens to suit you.

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

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.

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.

excellent value
This lens is fantastic for the price. I have used it on my Canon 20d since Christmas. The lens does not have the best build quality or the best optics available.However the results are pretty good,much better than the efs 18 55 lens supplied with the camera. Also being a prime lens and not a telephoto, the user is forced to consider the composition of the photo much more. I would recommend this lens to anyone who has just bought a canon digital slr with the efs 18 - 55 mm lens. In fact I wish I had bought the camera body only and this lens.