First of all the price was great and lower than many other sites I had looked at and the delivery time was fast! The lens arrived in well packaged and has already exceeded my expectations. With the low aperture it's a perfect lens for portraits and items that you want high detail on.

- USM is fast the majority of the time but does have some hunting issues - Decent quality lens with good build quality - Looses sharpness when shooting at f/1.4 but gets sharper as the aperture increases - Very high presence of chromatic aberration and some flaring when shooting in brighter,...

Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM Lens this is a great lens and everything I've asked of this lens it has done a great job at which includes thing such as taking portraits etc. Is does a really great job of shooting pictures when it is dark outside and I can't ask for too much more then that.

The overall build quality is very decent with a metal mount and an outer barrel made of good quality plastics. Manual focusing feels quite smooth albeit not damped. The broad, rubberized control ring is certainly a plus compared to the tiny focus ring on the EF 50mm f/1.8 II.

If there was ever a lens in need of a revamp, it was this rather stripped-back golden-oldie of a nifty fifty…...

Extremely lightweight build; Full-time manual focus override

Significant autofocus issues; Vignetting and poor sharpness

Gary Wolstenholme takes a look at Canon's mid-range 'nifty-fifty'. Standard lenses such as this are popular due to their lightweight and bright maximum aperture.

Decent resolution across the frame when stopped down; Good resistance to flare; Low vignetting at maximum aperture

Barrel distortion may be noticeable in critical applications; Quality towards the edges doesn't really excite until stopped down to f/4

Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM should probably be considered the best alternative among Canon's four 50mm lenses (in terms of value for the money, overall performance and capabilities). While not as fast as its more expensive 50mm f/1.2L USM variant, this lens performs as well (if not better) pretty much...

A 50 mm lens is one of the most classic devices in the assortment of every advanced photography enthusiast or every professional photographer. In days of analogue photography it was an instrument which gave you the same picture scale as the human eye does so it was commonly added to amateur reflex...

good frame centre sharpness (apart from the maximum aperture); very good frame edge picture quality on APS-C; good frame edge picture quality on full frame; well corrected astigmatism; low chromatic aberration; lack of distinct geometric deformations at frame edges; fast; silent and accurate...

by f/1.4 the image is distinctly „soft"; very high coma; susceptibility to flares; visible distortion on full frame; very high vignetting on full frame

Although not pin-sharp at its widest apertures, Canon's EF 50mm f/1.4 USM remains a competent performer and its image quality between f/4 and f/8is excellent. Two issues should be considered when assessing this lens: the size of the sensor on that camera with which it will be mainly used and whether...

While it's not tack-sharp when used wide-open, the Canon EF 50mm ƒ/1.4 USM is still quite good, and stopped down to ƒ/4 image quality is excellent. At ƒ/8, it's as sharp as sharp gets. Used wide open however, the lens has some definite issues, and on full-frame, edge performance is remarkably poor.