Mac Connection has the Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II Lens for $100 with free shipping. This is a best-value prime lens for your Canon SLR that is both very fast and very sharp. It is often referred to as the 'nifty fifty'.
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Nice, I need 50mm Canon lens for portraits. Hopefully some time in the future someone will make a prime lens with Image Stablization, until then I'll enjoy this f/1.8
To me: It is a must have budget lens for DSLR owner. Look like a pretty good price for now.
At old time, this lens is about $70- $80 range and it is around $120 now.
Goob, don't you think that there is a reason most primes are without Image Stabilization. Tired of damn noobs com paining about IS, especially for portraits where IS doesn't help at all.
I promise not to "com pain" again, in the meantime do you care to elaborate why IS would not be an advantage for a 50mm lens especially when shooting with available light.
usually you don't want IS when using tripods, or if you're good with a monopod. IS at this point would only add noise.
I usually don't have problems with blurred pictures using my canon slr with non-is lens. Of course I would take another picture if I found my picture blurry (thanks to the digital technology). If anybody is concerned with camera stablization, then he should switch to using Sony camera body but the price of the lens are higher.
Perhaps one should consider IS comes with a price over and above dollars. If electronics have to be able to move an element in the lens to stabilize the picture then that element is not as stable or secure as it would be in a non-IS lens. The quality of the focus will be less deterministic because one doesn't have perfect control of element alignment.
No doubt a lot of the money that goes into an image stabilized L lens is to control the exact position of this movable element.
Which gets us right back to exactly why this lens is so championed, the fact it produces a sharper picture than the IS lenses.
IS would make the lens more bulky and expensive.
Interloper, If you have to use tripods and monopods doesn't this support the use of IS in a prime lens. Maybe IS does add noise to a photo but I never read anything to that effect. My thought is that IS would allow me to use lower iso's and slower shutter speeds when I need to push the envelope while holding by hand which I almost always do.
GrumpyCat, that makes sense. Weather it's true or not I don't know but that sounds reasonable.
I would get this if it had IS.