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Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II Pro Reviews

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ephotozine‘s review Edit Like Unlike

Due to its low price and excellent optical quality, this lens has long been a go-to lens for those on a budget looking to take better quality images. The sharpness this lens can produce is impressive, especially when stopped down a little. Although the build quality and basic design may fall short of that offered by more expensive lenses, the low price point makes this optic excellent value.

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Jul 22, 2011

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slrgear‘s review Edit Like Unlike

This lens has received a lot of attention as one of the true bargains in the Canon lens offerings. Its f/1.8 maximum aperture is great for available-light shooting; and when you stop it down, it really delivers excellent optical performance. Wide open, this lens is sharp enough in the center, but very soft in the corners. It's flat-out excellent, very sharp from corner to corner, with very low CA, and practically no light falloff in the corners. There's no getting around it, this is an inexpensive lens, which is immediately evident the moment you pick it up and feel its feather-light largely plastic construction. That said, it delivers surprising performance at a very reasonable price.

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Oct 17, 2005

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photozone‘s review Edit Like Unlike

The Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II may be a "cheap" lens but it is undoubtedly a capable one. It shares its characteristics with most other 50mm lenses, reads: it's somewhat soft at f/1.8 but at medium aperture settings it is hard to beat with respect to resolution. Distortions as well as lateral CAs are basically non-issues.

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The-Digital-Picture‘s review Edit Like Unlike

The Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II Lens delivers very sharp images as inexpensively as Canon lenses get. Build quality of the 50 f/1.8 is very cheap (as you might expect). This lens feels more like a toy than a piece of optics. It utilizes plastic contruction right down to the lens mount (the lenses are glass of course)...

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Oct 18, 2007

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DP Review‘s review Edit Like Unlike

The Canon EF 50mm F1.8 II is the least expensive lens currently available for the EOS system, and has been in the lineup since late 1990. It uses simple symmetric Gaussian optics with six elements in five groups, in a well-proven formula which is known to offer excellent correction of aberrations...

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Jan 28, 2009

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