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Canon EF 50mm f1.4 USM Standard & Medium Telephoto Lens for Canon SLR Cameras Specifications

The 50mm f/1.4 standard lens is a terrific choice for both casual and professional photographers. The lens is outfitted with two high-refraction lens elements and new Gaussian optics, which combine to eliminate astigmatism and suppress astigmatic difference. As a result, the lens obtains crisp images with little flare even at the maximum aperture. The lens’s f/1.4 speed, meanwhile, is perfect for available-light shooting. And as a bonus, this lens is the only lens in the EF system to offer an extra-small Micro Ultra Sonic Motor (USM) while still providing a full-time manual focusing option. Other features include a close focusing distance of 1.5 feet, a 58mm filter size, and a one-year warranty.

Specifications

• Focal length: 50mm
• Maximum aperture: f/1.4L
• Lens construction: 7 elements in 6 groups
• Angle of view: 46 degrees
• Focus adjustment: Overall linear extension system with USM
• Closest focusing distance: 1.5 feet
• Filter size: 58mm
• Dimensions: 2.9 inches in diameter and 2 inches long
• Weight: 10.2 ounces
• Warranty: 1 year

Canon EF 50mm f1.4 USM Standard & Medium Telephoto Lens for Canon SLR Cameras Overviews

Canon offers this standard lens featuring superb quality and portability. Two high-refraction lens elements and new Gaussian optics eliminate astigmatism and suppress astigmatic difference. Crisp images with little flare are obtained even at the maximum aperture.

[if I got this lens with my new Canon 7D. I love the pictures it takes. Perfect portraits even in low light.
It's a quick focus and a very useful focal length for individual shots of people. The 7D is not a full-frame camera though so this is too tight for my original purpose (I want to take pictures of groups of friends at parties and not have to use a flash). This would be GREAT on a full-frame camera, but on a crop frame camera it acts like an 80mm lens... far too close for my applications. I'm going to have to get the 35mm 1.4L to do what I want.

For the price, you simply cannot beat this lens. It takes beautiful pictures that are crisp and brilliantly colored even in low light.
It has a fast focus so pictures of children and animals who don't like to stand around waiting can be snapped super fast and crystal clear.]

Customer Review

I got this lens with my new Canon 7D. I love the pictures it takes. Perfect portraits even in low light.
It’s a quick focus and a very useful focal length for individual shots of people. The 7D is not a full-frame camera though so this is too tight for my original purpose (I want to take pictures of groups of friends at parties and not have to use a flash). This would be GREAT on a full-frame camera, but on a crop frame camera it acts like an 80mm lens… far too close for my applications. I’m going to have to get the 35mm 1.4L to do what I want.

For the price, you simply cannot beat this lens. It takes beautiful pictures that are crisp and brilliantly colored even in low light.
It has a fast focus so pictures of children and animals who don’t like to stand around waiting can be snapped super fast and crystal clear.

I recommend this lens to all my friends – Brent R. Schnarr – Huntingdon Valley, pa, US
I love this lens. New photographers ask me all the time what lens to get and this is the only one i suggest. It lets you take photos inside with out a flash plus gives you that great depth of field. For 0 its a real bargin.

Compact Lens on the Go – Bennofer – Oakland, CA USA
Love the light-weight feel of this lens and the short, compact body makes my overall camera feel smaller and easy to grab on the run. I’m still learning to best optimize the blurring because it seems a bit inconsistent. Sometimes I get some really amazing shots with interesting blurs on the edges and sometimes it looks a bit flat with minimal blurring on the edges. I use it mostly to take photos of food so the shots vary depending on whether I’m shooting something small like an apple or something bigger like a plate of pasta. The smaller objects tend to lend to more blurring. But am having fun so far experimenting and seeing the results. Does work nicely in low light but not great for shooting portraits of people because you have to stand far away.

Poor quality – A Thinking Man – San Francisco, CA
Very poor quality. It died on me twice, each time on an exotic trip – horribly disappointing! Both auto and manual focus stopped functioning. Canon fixed it for free the first time, the second time it was no longer covered by warranty. I probably took just 300-400 shots with it total! It appears that a lot of Canon products – unless you buy the most expensive ones – are having quality problems. (My lens was made in Japan, BTW). The Toyota syndrome? Would like to buy it again, hoping that I may be be lucky this time – but do I want to risk spending over 0 just to see it die somewhere in Burma or Borneo while getting ready for one of those on-my-god shots, which is exactly what happened to me TWICE?

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