Canon EF 50mm F/1.8 STM Rental
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Canon EF 50mm F/1.8 STM
Meet your storytelling sidekick: the Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 STM Lens. It's the heart and soul of your camera bag, perfect for those who live to tell stories through film. This lens loves low light, making early mornings and late nights your playground. With its wide-open aperture, you can draw viewers into every scene, making your subjects pop against buttery smooth backgrounds. It's not just a lens; it's your tool to make the ordinary look extraordinary, designed for filmmakers and cinematographers who dream big.
- Availability: Available
- Brand : Canon
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- Crafted for clarity and precision, the lens boasts a Super Spectra coating on its individual elements, a technique developed to combat the common enemies of image quality: flare and ghosting. This coating ensures that even when you're filming against the light or in environments where contrast and color fidelity are challenged, your footage remains crisp, vibrant, and true to life. The result is a canvas that’s as accurate and vivid as your vision, inviting viewers into your narrative without distractions.
- At its heart, the Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 STM harbors an STM stepping AF motor, a feature filmmakers and cinematographers will find valuable. This motor delivers autofocus that’s not only speedy but whisper-quiet, preserving the authenticity of intimate moments without the intrusion of mechanical noise. Coupled with advanced AF algorithms and a high-speed CPU, the lens promises fast autofocus performance, ensuring you never miss the climax of your scene. For those who prefer a more hands-on approach, the full-time manual focus override allows for precision adjustments, ensuring your subject is always crisply defined.
- Designed for versatility, the lens is compatible with both full-frame Canon EF-mount DSLRs and APS-C models, where it provides an 80mm equivalent focal length. This flexibility makes it an excellent choice for a wide range of projects, from indie films to documentary work, where the narrative demands intimacy and detail. The bright f/1.8 maximum aperture is not just a specification—it's a gateway to creative freedom, offering control over depth of field that brings your subject into sharp focus against a softly blurred background, perfect for selective focus techniques and low-light storytelling.
- Durability meets design in the lens's redeveloped physical structure, which features a metal lens mount for resilience in the field and a re-located focusing ring to maintain its compact, easy-to-handle form. Its rounded seven-blade diaphragm further enhances its artistic potential, creating a pleasing out-of-focus quality that adds depth and emotion to your shots.
| Feature | Specification |
|---|---|
| Focal Length | 50mm |
| Maximum Aperture | f/1.8 |
| Minimum Aperture | f/22 |
| Lens Mount | Canon EF |
| Lens Format Coverage | Full-Frame |
| Angle of View | 46° |
| Minimum Focus Distance | 13.78" / 35 cm |
| Maximum Magnification | 0.21x |
| Optical Design | 6 Elements in 5 Groups |
| Diaphragm Blades | 7, Rounded |
| Focus Type | Autofocus |
| Image Stabilization | No |
| Filter Size | 49 mm (Front) |
| Dimensions (ø x L) | 2.72 x 1.54" / 69.2 x 39.2 mm |
| Weight | 160 g |