I have a Canon 50mm f/1.8 prime lens. I needed a lens hood. So I bought the ES-68. Honestly, I don't know why lens manufacturers don't just ship lens hoods with all their lenses--but there you go.The hood is made of good quality material. It isn't felt-lined like some of their L-series lens hoods--but it doesn't seem any less effective for it. To connect it to the lens, I attach it, then rotate it 1/4 turn, and it snugly clicks into place. I shoot on a Canon 80D (cropped sensor), and I've never noticed any vignetting while using the lens hood. When I need to store my lens in my camera bag, I spin the hood around backwards, and attach it to the lens--so it takes up less space.If you've got the Canon 50mm f/1.8 prime lens, I recommend getting this lens hood to help reduce glare and lens flares while out shooting.

If you have less than a full frame DSLR consider this to beca nice prime telephoto lens. 50mm × 1.6 is the crop factor.

Perfect Sony product. I bought this thinking the 50mm prime lens I bought for my new A57 wouldn't come with one. It did, so now I have two of these. The price was great here, so I'm keeping it.

A great prime lens, at a very affordable price! The 50mm lens has lovely bokeh when shooting wide open. It's also lightweight, which I appreciate at times. Although the Canon 85mm f/1.8 is still my favorite lens, it is much heavier. It can also be trickier to use indoors with the focal length, depending on the size of the room I am working with. Having the 50mm opens up options in lower light situations and creates lovely photos, even while using an entry level D-SLR camera. As a photography hobbyist, I am a big fan.

This is now my main lens after getting it from Amazon. I got same day delivery through Amazon Prime. The 50mm lens is a must have lens for any serious photographer. It is lightweight and produces sharp pictures. The auto focus is rather fast compared to the kit lenses that I got with my camera.

I love the 50mm lens. If you're not accustomed to using prime lenses, it can be difficult to get used to because you have to move around with the camera to get more or less in the picture. However, being able to adjust the aperture all the way to f1.8 makes up for having to move around so much. It's a great lens, especially if you're just starting out and want to affordably upgrade from your kit lens. I highly recommend it!

This lens is quickly becoming my first pick out of my camera bag. It is such a versatile lens for so many different scenarios. As a walk around in suburban/urban environments this lens rocks. It has a very low profile, sans lens hood, and is fairly light. I use it with my Rebel T3. On a crop sensor, this lens is a go-to, but it won't be a full time replacement for indoor shooting. I do still keep my 18-55mm kit lens with me.The one major callout that I'm going to give is towards the argument that I kept running into as a beginning amateur photographer: Do you need to buy a prime lens or is the 18-55mm kit lens all you truly need for basic photography? The answer that I have come to is: it depends on how you like to work. I can set my 18-55mm to 50mm and I can tweak a lot of settings on my T3 to get a similar image from this prime lens. However, I tend to rely more on flash, due to the aperture, and I have to do a lot of post processing to clean up the image. With my prime, I do less work. I also have more moments where I may only need to process the image with one go. I also have moments were I look at the picture I captured and deem it to be of good enough quality to let it be without anything more than an onboard jpeg edit.The TL;DR of this story: Its up to you if you want to buy a prime or stick it out with a kit lens. Just know that in my experience, I tend to really work the kit lens and process the image, whereas I can shoot and worry less with my 50mm.The one thing that I would say that you might want to be aware of is the focus. My in depth study of this 50mm and its older brother is that AF is finicky. I have noticed it and overlooked it until I went out on a cold night. Ambient temps were right around 40 degrees and it seemed that this lens body was much colder in a shorter time versus something like my kit. This, I believe, threw the AF off even more. It's not enough to knock a star off, but it make the expected behavior of the AF to exaggerate itself compared to similar subjects with warmer temps.***TWO YEAR UPDATE***This lens is still awesome. I recently upgraded my camera (Rebel T6) and I have found that this lens is getting better and better. Using a 50mm on a crop sensor presents interesting challenges and rewards. In some cases, the DOF creates some unique bokeh. At other times, the sharpness from this lens surprises me. Each time I push this lens it shows me that it can do more. The one fault that I can say about the lens (not worth knocking a star off because the price point doesn't allow it) is that it is difficult to work with in astrophotography. The two main issues are: 1) this lens lacks a physical indicator of focus, i.e. hard to find infinity, and 2) The focal length + crop sensor combo doesn't allow for long exposures before star trails happen. Stopped to f/4, you'd get about a 5 second exposure before trailing is evident. Its enough to capture a fair amount of stars, but not enough to get something like the Milky Way without having a specialized mount that corrects for trailing.

Prime lenses are nearly always better than their zoom counterparts at equivalent focal lengths.I previously owned the last generation of this lens, and found that I was using it more than my kit lens. It was sharper, faster, and gave me better results, and losing some focal range was an acceptable sacrifice.This new version is much easier to focus as they're moved the focus ring behind the front element. Unfortunately, the focus is motor driven and the camera must be on and engaged to focus the lens.My images have been sharp, with great contrast and good bokeh.I was considering the 50mm f/1.4, but all research I was able to find showed that there wasn't much advantage aside from the additional available light. Plus you could buy a few of these for the same cost...If you only have your kit lens, and you never shot with any old manual SLRs (where fast 50mm lenses were king), you owe it to yourself to pick one of these up. They're a lot of fun, and the image quality will shock you when you remind yourself you only spent $120 on the lens