Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II Camera Lens Reviews.

Best lens for the money., April 24, 2006
Reviewer: Matthew Lei

With this lens it is well known that you'll either get a great sharp copy or a problem copy that is either soft, back focuses or front focuses. Most people get a good copy but this lens seems to have a higher bad rate than others.
Anyways, just return it until you get a good one. Once you do get a good one this lens is never coming off your camera. Is has perfect sharpness, even at 1.8. Its a tad slow to focus and is noisy. It feels like a plastic toy from a snack box but dang, it has awesome glass and thats what matters.
You're not going to find a lens under $400 that can perform nearly as well as this one does. Its extremely sharp that your eyes will bleed, it has perfect contrast and color. No true canon fan would be without this lens.
Due to its awesome 1.8 fstop its great for low light. It can keep your shutter speeds nice and fast to stop motion in very low light. I don't know what I'd do without this lens.

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Great Lens, April 19, 2006
Reviewer: DesiInCT "Hyderabadi"
This is a great lens for the price! A MUST for indoor pictures, with or without flash.

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Canon's 'Thrifty Fifty' Belongs in Every Camera Bag, April 5, 2006
Reviewer: Mark Kitaoka

I've been shooting seriously for about a year now and a friend of mine had been trying to get me to use his EF 50 1.8. I shoot quite often in low light conditions and my fastest lens before this purchase was Canon's discontinued EF 28-70 f2.8 L lens. It's a wonderful lens, albeit a bit heavy, but really sharp. Not quite fast enough for stage performance work, but it was the fastest lens in my bag. After borrowing his 50, I was shocked at the plastic housing construction and the tiny focus ring. All of that bias disappeared as soon as I took some test shots and examined them on my PC. This lens is a real jewel producing acceptable bokah and color depth. I find that I use it quite often and the featherweight allows me to keep it in my bag without adding much weight. In most low light situations, the slight light fall off toward the corners is unnoticeable. I highly recommend this lens, as on a price performance ratio, it certainly keeps up with the two L series lenses in my bag. Bravo Canon.
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Fabulous Lens for the money, March 24, 2006
Reviewer: Joel Jenkins "wheezy"

I LOVE THIS LENS. It is hands down the best value you can get. I am amazed at how sharp the images turn out with this, much sharper than the 18-55 Kit lens and for me was way better than the 28-105 3.5-4.5 USM II that I bought, and returned.

Colors are great, the 1.8 for indoor photography is awesome and the higher you set the aperture the better it gets. I love this lens. If you spent your $1000+ on a Canon Digital SLR you'd be nuts to not spend another $70 and pick this up. Going out and shooting pictures is a blast, but the icing on the cake is when you get home and they turned out how you imagined. This lens will do that for you. I shoot with a 20D.
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Well worth the money., March 22, 2006
Reviewer: M. OMara "momaraman"

A friend of mine recommended this lens and just wouldn't stop talking about it. Finally, I bought it with some hesitation. Once I got it in the field I immediately fell in love with it. Fantastic in low light, sharp pictures, and a lot of fun-in short it's the best $70 I ever spent.

I loved the lens so much that after a recent trip to Europe I when I accidentally dropped the lens and broke it (on pavement) the first thing I did when I got home was to get on the computer and buy another. I just could conceive of owning my Rebel and not this lens.
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A good deal? Fugedaboudit... , March 20, 2006
Reviewer: D. A. Allen "Professional Nerd. No, Really."

For less than $100, you get a great lens.

Other reviewers, on Amazon and many other sites, have complained about the poor build quality... I can't deny that it's made cheaply compared to it's $300 cousin. But most of the people complaining have an unending list of L-glass lenses in their bag.

If you're an amatuer, this lens is more than good. The more expensive version gives you 1/3 stop... a $200 1/3 stop. I've had mine about a year. At f/1.8 I've handheld shots in streetlight and in dim torch-lit restaurants. I cannot imagine a better lens for the money.

And worst case, if the lens breaks, I can buy two more before I've come to the total that I would have put into the f/1.4 cousin.
I highly recommend this lens.
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Exactly what I needed at an affordable price!, March 19, 2006
Reviewer: J. Trotter "Devine Designs"
I am in love with this lens! It takes wonderful quality sharp images on my Canon 20D. I would recommend it to anyone who wants more than the basic lens that comes with your camera, but can't afford the even better l-series lenses yet. It works nice indoors as well because of the 1.8f stop. Its also very lightweight for people who don't like carrying alot of extra weight in equipment on them.
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new lens for my Canon Rebel XT, March 19, 2006
Reviewer: Alice
This is my first "normal " lens and it seems to take good, sharp images. Many of the forum members have shown great pictures with it.

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