Great high quality lens

 Sharp and wide photos with amazing quality

It works just like I wanted—as a lightweight, compact, high-quality alternative to carrying around a big DSLR rig

and I both loved the quality of the lens

but it is obviously built sturdier and out of better quality materials than the 50mm II

Awesome Image Quality!

I love the light weight and superb image quality.

My review is not intended to disparage the quality of the

The focus ring feels nice (which can be adjust manually even when autofocus is engaged, which is a huge plus) and the autofocus and manual focus switch has just enough resistance for a good quality feel to it

Quality, fun and portability make this lens one of the Canon’s more intriguing offerings in the EF-S lens class and would highly recommend the lens to any photographer beginning or intermediate photographer

great picture quality with depth, use it for both portrait and landscape

good price a quality lens and really compact

Considering the relatively low cost, this lens has excellent build quality and the optics are quite good

Other than that, I love the quality it provides for my videos.

Wonderful for travel, as its super lightweight! great image quality.

Excellent quality, well build, small, weightless, good open angle, great for backpacking and outdoors adventures where a big and bulky lens are bothersome to carry around.

And I'm not knocking the build quality because it's very nice

Great quality and compact lens for all types of photography

I love this lens, it has great build quality and great picture quality

So I just received this lens today and the quality is amazing both for video and stills

I love this lens the built quality is excellent, and the size is even better

Great lens for the money...clearer than my nifty 50...and tremendous build quality.

The build quality is cheap, not going to lie, but the image this thing captures is top notch

Great quality

I just couldn't get a good quality shot at all

Great quality, gorgeous look to your images, and a quick auto focus

It’s a great portrait lens, offering much better quality photos

This lens allows me to take decent quality images in a compact (relatively speaking) fashion.

Great quality lens for my Canon T3i

Available at a reasonable price and excellent image quality

The lens, like most better quality lens, has a hydrophobic coating that reduces reflected glare (analogous to polarized sunglasses) and protects the glass against scratches

The lens is a reasonable fast lens at f/2.8 and produces fairly good quality pictures at lower light levels (without flash) especially

Beautiful quality close uṕ pictures too

Great build quality and image quality

but it doesnt take very good quality pics and difficult for an educated photographer let alone a hobbyist to even focus the dang thing

Very good quality lens for the price alongside the "nifty

Much better quality than the kit lens, and I find the limitation of the prime lens pretty fun.

Typically great Canon build quality, great quality glass for the money.

Reasonable quality and sharpness.

Great lens, quality is excellent.

Great quality.

For such a great size and such high quality you'd be amiss to pass it up

I have only had the opportunity to use this a few times so far but the quality of the images are sharp, colorful, without any blemishing

It's pretty cool good quality and thaks great pictures

It still gives you great quality pictures and videos though

The range is great but the quality is just... bad

Really good quality

Great build quality, and a good value overall

The photos are all very blurry even in auto non-flash and the edges aren't crisp.. really disappointed as I really really wanted to like product and after testing two they didn't meet expectation.

I use this lens the most along with my nifty fifty (of course).I use this lens for portraits as well as for shooting around the city.definitely happy I bought this.

Great for general purpose shooting, as well as for selfies when you hold your camera at arm’s length.

Like any camera a tripod or monopod enhances low light shooting - when the venues allow them!!!Autofocus works well and the transition to and from manual for certain shots is quick such as into museum display cases and wildlife in foliage that could otherwise spoof an autofocus