Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II

Pros: Inexpensive (under $70), great image quality for price, sharp at smaller apertures

Cons: Build quality, non-USM autofocus, AF won't work in odd lighting

The Bottom Line: A great starter lens for EOS/Rebel cameras. Relatively sharp stopped down, fast maximum aperture, and very light. Recommended over cheap standard zooms.

Review: The Canon EF 50mm 1.8 II is a great starter lens for Canon EOS/Rebel cameras. It is discreet and very light. I would suggest this lens over the normal 28-80 or 28-90 lenses that come packaged with certain cameras for a first EF lens. The sharpness is far...

Pros: inexpensive, light, compact

Cons: no distance scale, feels flimsy

Review: The EF50mm/1.8II is the least expensive prime lens you get buy. At $60 new from mail order companies, this little lens is a nice addition to most consumer-grade zoom lenses.

Most consumer-grade zoom lenses have a largest aperture of f/3.5 or...

Pros: - good optics, good at 1.8, excellent from 2.8 - cheap - excellent portrait lens

Cons: - body is all plastic but that's why it's cheap and it isn't that disturbing

The Bottom Line: If you're fine with the plastic body and looking for a fix portrait lens you can stop here. Excellent optics.

Review: If you need a portrait lens (88mm with crop) and want to save money then this lens is a good choice. Okay, so AF is somewhat louder and not really fast but this lens isn't for sport and bird photography anyway (for those you'll have to invest into a ...

Pros: Good image quality Enables lower-light shooting Low cost prime lens

Cons: II series of Canon lenses

The Bottom Line: Gauge your needs and determine what type of a person you are - what level of product will you be comfortable with for the long haul.

Review: Here's the skinny as told to me by the local wisemen: Canon has always made outstanding lenses: metal mounts, metal bodies, highest quality optics, on down the line. To make their lenses more affordable for the common man, the II series was introduced....

Pros: Price! Sharp image quality; smaller size.

Cons: Plastic; hard to find focus; bokeh.

Review: I recently purchased this lens for use with my 20D. After taking some initial test shots, I have to say that it was well worth the price. The images are very sharp, especially the close distance shots. At smaller apertures the focus and depth were ...

Pros: Good Price and value for money.

Cons: poor build quality.

Review: The build quality is low but not the picture quality. It is the cheapest Canon Prime lens around that give you very good result. Every EOS user should get one of this. ...

Pros: Very light, cheap, 1.8 Aperture

Cons: Feels rather cheap but when your carrying a lot of gear thats OK.

Review: Lightweight, cheap, sharp lens. I would take this lens anywhere, it's reliable and if it gets damaged your out less than ...

Pros: Fast aperature F1.8

Cons: has a little problem with focusing sometimes

The Bottom Line: If you can't afford L glass go with this one, it's fast and cheap and fairly sharp for what you pay for it.

Review: This is a 50mm canon EF mount lens when used on a 35mm film body, when this lens is used on the Digital Rebel or the 10D/20D the magnification is increased by 1.6 making it more like a 80mm lens because the DIGIC processor chip in the canon digitals is ...

Pros: Don't know

Cons: Useless in low light conditions

Review: I bought this lens especially to be able to do low light shooting without a flash. But alas, for this purpose it is completely useless. Maybe one out of 10 photos is sharp, the AF functions very poorly in low light situations. So, although the price is ...