Yourlensreview - Lens - Canon EF 50 F/1.8 II

- Lowlight situations
- Leightweight
- Sharp
- DOF

- Cheap build

Price/quality this objective is perfect. I bought it for 80,- euro's.
F/1.8 can give you a nice DOF, and for portraits it's also very nice!

Price
Sharp
Fast
Lightweight
Price!!!!

5 blade diaphragm
Cheap build

As far as I'm concerned the only reason not to own this lens is that you already have one of the upgrade 50mm prime varieties.  At the price, it combines the most fun and image quality of any lens I have.  The 5 bladed diaphragm can leave pentagonal out of focus highlights and generally unpleasing bokeh.  I use this lens mostly on Kenko extension tubes for macro but other reviews posted here suggest it also does well for more normal photography.  The bat photo below suffers from unsharpness due to motion (1/6 second handheld) but was taken in the bat house in the zoo with dim red lights.  What more can you ask for the price?

Light
Sharp
Very sharp at 2.8 and up
Cheap

Suffers from front focus easily
AF haunting
Build quality

This lens offers an excellent price/quality level. When you learn how to deal with its downsides it'll bring you quite satisfying results.

Sharp, nice length on dSLR

Builtquality is not great, AF a little noisy

I use this lens for indoor portraits where there is little light and as an semi-standardlens whereever I need a small DOF. This lens offers really great value for the money, I paid €80,-, for a lens that's pretty sharp and very sharp from 2.8 and up.

When there is little light, this fellow is my friend, because of it's F/1.8 and portability. Highly recommended.