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By Chris (United Kingdom)
I owned the Canon 50mm f/1.8 on a previous camera, so this time I thought I'd go for the 50mm f/1.4
If you get it right this lens can take great pictures, however :
1. At the widest aperture settings the depth of field is so small it can be really tricky keeping the areas of your subject in focus.
2. At the widest aperture settings it is gives a very soft image
3. Build quality is a lot better than the f/1.8, however the focus ring isn't great (feels a bit gritty and mechanical on my lens)
Overall I am pleased because being able to go right to f1.4 is useful, however not wholly convinced about the price when compared to the f/1.8
By K. Ahronson (Surrey, UK)
I read loads of reviews about this lens, and I was cautious about being overly-optimistic. I need not have worried, this is a fantastic piece of glass. The bokeh is truely amazing and it almost becomes hard to take a bad photo with it.
My hand kept going to the zoom ring which of course wasn't there, and that will take a while to get used to, but oh how I love this lens. I don't seem to have any of the vignetting that one or two reviews had spoken about - just great, great pictures.
I'm taking photos of stuff under my desk at ISO 100 without flash. Incredible.
Buy this lens, go on, buy it.
By Howard Denton (Annan Scotland)
This lens gives a much better picture ( hardly any colour fringes etc) than any of my L series zoom lenses. It is also much better than my 50mm f1.8 lens, it focuses very quickly and gives very sharp images on my full frame 5D mk2. At f1.4 it is a little soft at the edges, but stopped down to F2 it is fine. For landscape shots it is optimum around F8 for overall image quality. Throw away the zoom lens and get this 50 mm lens. Zoom with your legs!Canon - Lens - 50 mm - f/1.4 USM - Canon EF
By liza
I think the most people who are reading this review are thinking of purchasing it. So I won't go in to too much detail.
Just like every single person who owns this lens and wrote a review about it... It's and amazing lens. The first few pics will be so breathtaking you just can't believe it. The quality is so awful great! I don't get it why its not an L lens. Sure the 'L' in the title would make the price twice as much but I don't think its any less better than the L series lenses. (have never owned an L lens).
If your a beginning photographer and just fell in love with photography (what one of the best thing must be in your whole life, ghehe) this is def. a good lens for you. But I think you won't be very suprised because you have never used a bad lens or a simple kitlens. It's so much more fun if you have used lenses with low/normal quality. But thats something rather personal, and it doesn't make the lens different ofcourse.
I have bought a lens hood with it (too bad it doesn't come with the lens so I had to spend 25 euro extra, very clever Canon) and its an accessory I highly suggest to buy (aside filters).
I have been using this lens for 2 weeks. I have just returned from my trip to Dubai (another wow I can say). It kinda changed my mind about the lens.
Sure the portrait photo's where great, but the lens wasn't very useful. I wished I had bought a 10mm lens too, just because I couldn't get the burj Khalifa (largest building in the world) in one photo. :P For a travel lens I cannot suggest it. Get a landscape lens. I think its the one and only 'useful' lens on a trip (an allround lens could be an option, but I has far less image quality).
I still made very very VERY good shots with it. And if you won't use it that much for traveling you will be using it for any other type of photography (wildlife could be possible but it won't be easy).
If there was one lens I could use, if there was only 1 lens I could suggest someone else to buy, if theres one lens out of a milion, it has to be this one.
By Barry Mccarthy (Ireland)
I was looking for an upgrade to my 1.8 lens. Something that was as light and small as it was, but with better build quality and resolution. The 1.4 has really delivered for me. The extra bokeh at 1.4 is great and at f4 and beyond the sharpness is as good as anything I've seen. I like the physical size of the lens as it's light and neat on my 5dmk II. The build quality is far superior to the 1.8. The only downside to the lens is when using it in manual focus. The focussing ring seems to take 1.5 full turns to focus from near to far. What would be way more convenient would be maybe a quarter turn, like with my 16-35L lens. Besides that though, I would give this a 5 out of 5. Wish I had bought it earlier.
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