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Canon - Lens - 50 mm - f/1.4 USM - Canon EF
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List Price: £309.99

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Used Price: £223.01
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Availability: Usually dispatched within 2 to 4 weeks Binding: Electronics
Brand: Canon
EAN: 4960999213019
Label: Canon
Manufacturer: Canon
Maximum Focal Length: 58 millimeters
Minimum Focal Length: 50 millimeters
Model: 2515A003
Publisher: Canon
Studio: Canon
Sales Rank: 6180
MPN: 2515A003

Features:

The EF 50mm f/1
4 USM lens offers superb quality and portability
Two high-refraction lens elements and new Gaussian optics eliminate astigmatism and suppress astigmatic difference
If crisp images with little flare are important to you, they can be obtained even at the maximum aperture with this robust lens

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Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- A steal for the price.
I'm buying mine after Christmas to compliment my 24-105L and 5D. Maybe the build isn't as good as the 1.2 or Sigma's new 1.4, but it is lighter and more discreet for street work than the larger, heavier variety. If used properly, i.e. at 2 stops up from max - f2, and even f4 and 5.6, you will be working at optimum apertures and this lens becomes a cracker for the price. If you expect too much fully open at f1.4 then you will be kidding yourself. But who in their right mind works with lenses fully open anyway?

Rating:

- great for concert photography
I have recently bought this lens being a recent convert to Canon, and is already one of my favourites! I specialise in music photography, which means high ISO, no flash and low light conditions.

This lens comes up trumps in all departments and for small / midsize venues, Crisp, fast and solid, this really is the only lens you will need.

Rating:

- Fantastic Prime Lens
This is the first prime lens I have bought and I didn't know whether to go for the f1.8 or this one. After much research I went for the f1.4, the build quality is much better, the focussing is improved and that extra stop counts for a lot.

The simplicity of this lens is such an eye opener, you have to work for your shots now instead of standing still and zooming in on everything. Your legs become your zoom and because of this you are much more likely to raise or lower your normal eye-level view of the world to find a more interesting angle on a subject.

This lens is purely about quality of image, there are no gimmicks, no image stablisation or anything you don't need, you have a focussing ring and an AF/MF switch. ... Read More:

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- A Lens That Makes Me Smile!
I just bought this lens a few days ago to compliment my 24-105L and Ef 100 f2.8 Macro.

The focusing speed is slower than the 24-105L which is expected, but I'm surprised that it beats the EF 100 2.8 Macro which has a ring USM.

F1.4 is very handy, and on this lens, results are very useable/acceptable. As reviews/forum discussions suggest, you will see halos and purple fringing at f1.4. This occasionally happens to me depending on subject. It gradually decreases as you step down a bit and at F2, the halo is gone.

Image sharpness wise, I can say that this lens is very sharp!

Build quality is good, better than the kit lens. Its comparable to my EF 100 f2.8 Macro. The scary bit about this lens ... Read More:

Rating:

- Sucks in the light!
This lens is great, as you'd expect. It has such a wide aperture, it can take really good pictures indoors with no flash. If you want to take advantage of the short depth of field, make sure to focus on the subject you want; it can be so short (if you want) that even nearby items are out of focus.

I use it with a half-frame image sensor DSLR so the effective focal length is more. Sometimes you have to stand quite far away from a person to take a portrait.

The lens allows manual focus at the same time as automatic focus, but I find that the focus ring is a little loose. (these may be related). People tell me that doesn't matter, but I wish it was tight.

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