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- Top features: – Perfect for portraiture with fixed 50 mm focal length – f/1.8 aperture for beautifully blurred background – Quality elements and coating for sharper images – Travel friendly lens is an essential part of any kitPerfect for portraitureThe Canon EF 50 mm f/1.8 STM Standard Prime Lens offers a perspective that’s similar to the human eye, making it ideal for portraiture and easy to achieve perfect framing with a smooth bokeh.Near-silent STM focusing eliminates focus noise – ideal when shooting movies.f/1.8 aperture A bright maximum aperture of f/1.8 delivers great results in low-light conditions, while also letting you capture a smooth background to make your subject stand out.Quality elements and coating This fixed lens offers sharp images with increased contrast and reduced distortion. The glass elements are layered with Canon’s bespoke Super Spectra coating to help prevent flare and ghosting caused by shooting into the light.Travel friendly lensLightweight and compact, the EF 50 mm f/1.8 STM will form an essential part of your photography kit and is compatible with Canon EF mount cameras.
- Product codes: 4549292037692
- Model number: f/1.8
- Product ID 1: 3348020559
- Product ID 2: 10132951
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CANON EF 50 mm f/1.8 STM Standard Prime Lens is available currently from Currys for just £119.99, which is a great deal but we’re going to dive a little deeper into the price to explain why it’s such a good deal.
To help understand the average price you should expect to pay for Lenses we analysed the price of every product in that category. The average was £729.24. But perhaps more importantly you’d also want to know what you would expect to pay for a particular brand, so we also analysed the average price you would pay for a product from Canon. The average was £530.97. But that perhaps isn’t the fairest analysis because we know that Canon make more than just Lenses. So we went a step further and analysed the average price of Canon Lenses, this was £786.33. So you can see that CANON EF 50 mm f/1.8 STM Standard Prime Lens is a bargain at £119.99. Especially when you look at the table below which shows you the average price of products with certain features and specs. For example you’d expect to pay £544.65 for a product meeting the Lens type: Prime spec.
Specification / Price Comparison
| Feature | Spec | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Lens type | Prime | The average price of Lenses with this Lens type spec is £724.19 |
| Lens category | Standard | The average price of Lenses with this Lens category spec is £544.65 |
| Compatibility | Canon EF mount | The average price of Lenses with this Compatibility spec is £865.74 |
| Image stabilisation | No | The average price of Lenses with this Image stabilisation spec is £723.32 |
| Focal length | 50 mm | The average price of Lenses with this Focal length spec is £560.07 |
| Maximum aperture | f/1.8 | The average price of Lenses with this Maximum aperture spec is £536.33 |
| Minimum aperture | f/22 | The average price of Lenses with this Minimum aperture spec is £752.81 |
| Focusing | Manual & autofocus | The average price of Lenses with this Focusing spec is £690.30 |
| Minimum focusing distance | 0.35 m | The average price of Lenses with this Minimum focusing distance spec is £531.37 |
| Elements and grouping | 6 elements in 5 groups | The average price of Lenses with this Elements and grouping spec is £479.50 |
| Diaphragm blades | 7 rounded blades | The average price of Lenses with this Diaphragm blades spec is £427.69 |
| Filter diameter | 49 mm | The average price of Lenses with this Filter diameter spec is £288.73 |
| Silent focusing | Yes | The average price of Lenses with this Silent focusing spec is £785.83 |
| Box contents | – Canon EF 50 mm f/1.8 STM Standard Prime Lens – Lens cap E-49 – Lens dust cap E – Instruction manual – Warranty card – EAC leaflet |
The average price of Lenses with this Box contents spec is £119.99 |
| Dimensions | 69.2 x 39.3 mm (D x L) | The average price of Lenses with this Dimensions spec is £119.99 |
| Weight | 159 g | The average price of Lenses with this Weight spec is £70.99 |
| Manufacturer’s guarantee | 1 year | The average price of Lenses with this Manufacturer’s guarantee spec is £169.50 |
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Reviews of CANON EF 50 mm f/1.8 STM Standard Prime Lens
Reading customer reviews will of course be a big part of your decision on whether to buy CANON EF 50 mm f/1.8 STM Standard Prime Lens or another alternative. We’d advise reading reviews from trusted sources like ao.com or Currys, for the obvious reason that you know the people adding the reviews are verified buyers. Likewise we also suggest only buying from trusted online sources too, chances are, if you’ve found a deal that seems too good to be true, it probably is. Having a quick reference score/rating is also really useful as a benchmark to deciding between two products, we provide a score out of 10 for our reviews based on customer feedback from Currys. CANON EF 50 mm f/1.8 STM Standard Prime Lens scored an incredible 9.2 out of 10, thanks to the feedback from 153 customer reviews. You can read these by clicking the “Read Full Review” button that’s hovering on the bottom of your screen now.
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