Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 STM

The Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 STM will let your subjects stand out against a blurry background. It allows you to photograph subjects in nice close-up without having to get uncomfortably close and risk an unnatural expression on the subject's face. If you connect the lens to a full-frame EOS camera, it will function as a standard lens and offer a perspective similar to the human eye.

Fast, almost inaudible focusing

During shooting, the STM's almost inaudible focusing is very fast, allowing you to react immediately to the situation and capture fleeting moments. When shooting videos, it offers smoother and slower focusing to give your parts a cinematic look.

Excellent low-light results

The EF 50mm f/1.8 STM lens boasts a high lens aperture, so even low light won't stop you. This, in turn, gives your images a unique atmosphere and you'll love the resulting effect.

Highly sharp images

The fixed focal length lens captures beautiful images whether you're shooting stills or movies. Excellent sharpness and contrast with low distortion for more natural looking results. The glass elements of the EF 50mm f/1.8 STM lens feature Canon's bespoke Super Spectra coating.

Compact, travel-friendly design

The compact EF 50mm f/1.8 STM lens weighs just 160g and is only 40mm long, so it takes up minimal space. The manual focus touch ring is handy and easy to find even when shooting through the viewfinder.

Let more light through

The high f/1.8 aperture allows more than 8x the amount of light to pass through compared to the standard zoom lens that comes with the EOS camera. As a result, images are sharper with less motion blur and there's less need to use flash in low-light conditions, so you can easily capture the ambience of a dimly lit environment.

Perfect focus for photos and videos

Nearly noiseless STM (stepping motor) technology focuses extremely quickly when taking photos, allowing you to react immediately to the situation and capture fleeting moments. The stepper motor makes it easier to create high-quality movies by providing stable and quiet continuous focusing, so movies are smoother and audio tracks capture only surround sound and not focus motor noise.