Canon Shooters: Good Low-Light 50mm Lens for Cheap with Coupon
Sorry for the rush of Canon-specific deals lately, but it just doesn’t seem like there are as many good savings out there for users of other systems at the moment.
We talked a while back about 50mm 1.8 lenses as being one of the first upgrades an SLR shooter should get. Optics at 50mm aren’t too difficult for camera manufacturers, so a 50mm lens is usually a cheap and bright addition to the kit lens that came with your camera. It’s particularly well-suited to indoor photography, as the wide aperture lets in several more stops of light than the average kits lens.
Abe’s of Maine has the Canon 50mm f/1.8 lens on sale for $89.95 with free shipping and no sales tax. And if you enter the coupon codes FRIEND10 or LOYALTY10, you can knock another $10 off. At $80, this lens is a great addition to your kit and give you a little more versitility with the light you can shoot in.
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Thank you for the cool Cannon deal.
-David.
I don’t know about the cheapest price but I can second the recommendation for this lens - after all I’ve plugged it on my blog already. Good points are that it’s cheap, it has a good focal length for portraits on a crop sensor and the image quality is very good indeed even on full frame. It’s also very light.
Against this is plasticky - including the mount, it doesn’t auto focus specially well and the manual phocus ring is a bit of afterthought.
Still, if you’re interested in picture quality this really has to be a tremendous value buy because it combines a low price wuth a quality as good as the best.
I don’t use mine as much as i should because of the convenience aspect of zoom lenses and I use good quality zooms- but this will motivate me to use it more.
John Rocha