Processing: The 50mm 1.8 is built of rather cheap plastic. You shake it, you can hear it rattle. Even the bayonet connection is made of plastic. The focus ring can be rather bad use. That sounds once disastrously at BUT
the image quality: The lens provides excellent image quality at a ridiculously low price. Fine details are displayed and the focus is on a very high level. The large maximum aperture of 1.8, a beautiful game with the blur and bokeh is possible. The light circles of bokeh look good, but are not circular. With a maximum aperture open the picture to the edges loses much sharpness, detail and brightness. Here help the stopping down by 2-3 f-stops or software-based lens correction example in Lightroom.
Focus: Unfortunately quite slow and imprecise. The objective is pumping during focusing.
Conclusion: An objective, with significant shortcomings. However, these are by the great picture quality more than compensated. The price performance ratio is phenomenal - especially when the lens used purchases (50 euros). Strong buy recommendation!
What else you should know:
- Not as long as the focus ring does not turn the lens to "MF" stands
- Fade is usually very beneficial for the quality
- When using it on a APSC Camera crop factor of 1.6 must be considered. The effective focal length thus extended to 80mm. A very long focal length for universal use. As a complement for everyday use I recommend the 24mm 2.8 pancake EFS for APSC cameras and the 40mm 2.8 pancake EF for full frame cameras.
