Product Reviews

Seriously, this is a great focal length for all photographers to carry in their camera bag. It is great for portraits, cityscapes, and street scenes. But this lens has the added benefit of being a macro as well. That is a huge bonus when you are out and about shooting. Now you can shoot all styles of photography and get extreme closeup or abstract shots as well. All with the same lens.

I use this lens in a studio setting in manual focus mode. I could not be happier.

I bought this as I do macro shots on food and items for my clients. Because this is a 50mm macro, I can only use this for normal portrait shots. With F2.8, I can get amazing bokeh and it looks great.

good for macro, sharp and also use as a standard lens.

In normal use, images are sharp with good colour and contrast. AF is OK if you can use phase-detect focussing. Otherwise it can be slow and noisy. Macro AF is slow with hunting but not terminally so.

Excellent macro lens, very sharp, amazing resolution, light and easy to carry around. My tips....use AF-A or MF. Stay clear of AF-C. Don't expect this lens to be a do it all solution because it isn't. It is a macro lens and when used as such it's a star.

This is a great macro lens for the price. Yields great sharpnes only negative is I would like another f stop ot two.

Works great with the new 6500. Better value than the 90mm for me.