I use this mostly for portraits so if you are looking to buy a great portrait lens and don't want to spend $1000+, look no further

I took this lens to Yosemite with me, and I think it takes good landscape photos as well as portrait photos

It takes beautiful portrait pictures and is great for indoor pictures where previously my pictures would come out too dark, but not with this lens!

This lens takes beautiful portrait pictures with a gorgeous bokeh effect

This is a great lens for sharp portrait pictures - it creates a really nice "bokeh"; so everything in the background is blurred while the subject is incredibly focused

The button on the battery barely sticks out very far compared to other brands, but the unit is partly to blame too b/c of its design for its battery connector

Quality, Clarity, and Powerful... great product and important lens to have...

Very good product - received quickly, and it works GREAT!!!

Very good product - received quickly, and it works GREAT!!!

This product is great for portraits and can get the job

It has such beautiful bokeh and the pictures turn out great!

Bokeh is very nice as the lens has rounded aperture blades

The wider the aperture (thus lower the f-stop) the more background you can blur (bokeh) at closer focal lengths in order to produce flattering portraits with a focus on the subject

This lens is light weight, super sharp, and has amazing bokeh

, bokeh is rather harsh, and autofocus is not very reliable

and I was able to lower my ISO so my pictures had less noise.

I am not a professional in photography, but the pictures that this lens takes are really awesome

For the price of this lens and the great pictures it takes I absolutely love it

The pictures you get are stunning and the amount of aperture you get for the price is unbeatable.

Absolutely great lens, takes wonderful pictures for such an affordable price.

Very easy to use and takes great shots with minimal effort

It takes great low-light shots and I've gotten some great macro shots with it too!

It takes great crisp shots that make the subject really pop

Beautiful lens, great for portraits & close up shots!!!

The shots I can take with this 50mm lens are incredible

Great price if you are looking for an upgrade in a kit lens

I would highly recommend to anyone looking for a great prime lens for a great price!

its an absoloutely great lens fot the price, recommended!!!!

The worst nightmare when it comes to camera equipment is the price...but this offers an affordable 50mm f1.8 lens

Absolutely great lens, takes wonderful pictures for such an affordable price.

I know it's the photographer that makes an image successful and not the equipment, but the shallow depth of field and overall quality of this lens for the price really helped elevate my work

Great starter prime lens and the quality of the images is outstanding

I love the amazing quality of the pictures this lens produces

Such an amazing lens - great quality and fun to play with a fixed lens once in a while.

This lens just takes amazing quality pictures with very little effort.

Great lense, bought two different lenses, this is my favorite

All the other lenses were expensive, and I just needed something that I could take shots with and get great quality...nothing too fancy

Inexpensive, works, and I cannot tell images apart from much more expensive lenses - so why pay more?

One of the best "starter" lenses to have besides the kit lens

I have a number of expensive lenses but since my nifty fifty came, I use it almost exclusively

As my first prime lens the 50mm has definitely improved my photos

If you only have your kit lens, and you never shot with any old manual SLRs (where fast 50mm lenses were king), you owe it to yourself to pick one of these up.

The 50mm with the 1.6 crop factor makes this lens tricky to use inside unless you plan shots in advance

I wasn't expecting much when I got this cheap 50mm lens for my new

yet i have switched to a 35mm, cuz 50mm on a crop body is bad for indoor shooting situations -- you will capture the face of a subject but lose all the context in the pictures (e.g., the surroundings). when you are indoor, you don't have much space to step back

So much of this lens is so good, and you just expect flawless manual focus

It's great for low light shots, and the focus is fantastic

Love the lens build and quality but dislike the manual focus

Lens focuses quickly and gives a perfect mix of a sharp focus into a soft background

Auto focus is accurate, fast & tack sharp even in low light, manual focus makes some noise due to the stepper motor but not a issue

The autofocus is louder than more expensive models - this is only relevant if you are doing cinematography, the sound WILL show up in a video.(3

Bought this mostly for the 50mm and the F1.8, and because of great price, I did not like the older models because I invested in bigger and larger lenses

Ef 50mm 1.8 worked very well with the Canon EOS 5 D Mark III full frame.

It's great for low light situations if you are looking for a sharp lens and you can't afford the L

(1) The autofocus is not as fast as more expensive models

The first arrived with a defective autofocus, the second began making harsh grinding and clicking noises then reporting an error to the camera

It can be irritating for "home videos" but if you plan to remove the original sound for something else then the noise shouldn't be a problem

And no static noise or hard sound coming from the focus, which is a big plus for shooting close ups for video

This lens pulls nice smooth focus and locks on to the subject without hunting and with audible noise

Great lens, super sharp, though not as quiet as i though it would be.

There's a rumor that the new 50mm L 1.2 will appear anytime soon in 2016.I believe this time the rumor must be more than that cause this lens and the technology inside reflects a new milestone in photography

Great lens, super sharp, though not as quiet as i though it would be.

If you are taking pictures in close quarters like inside a house, you’re going to have a bad time.

delivered on time, with great response time on questions, product as described, recommended

The problem is that the focusing on ours is off just enough that it has a hard time focusing on what matters most - eyes

This lens is really sharp & fast with good background blur.

I wanted an F1.8 lens hoping for the extra sharpness, the better low-light performance, and the pleasing background blur available with the wider-open lens setting.

It doesn't quite autofocus as fast as the L and the L isn't that fast

This is an excellent replacement for standard kit lenses, as the 1.8 aperture provides excellent background blur, and professional quality portrait shots

The background blur with this lens is perfect for portrait photography