KSh135,988Original price was: KSh135,988.KSh118,250Current price is: KSh118,250. + VAT
1:1 Magnification for True Macro Photography
The lens offers a true 1:1 magnification, enabling you to capture life-size images of small subjects. This is a crucial feature for macro photography, allowing you to photograph insects, flowers, textures, and other tiny details in their natural size and sharpness.
2. L-Series Build Quality
As part of Canon’s renowned L-series, the lens is built with a professional-grade, durable construction. It features weather-sealing to resist dust and moisture, making it suitable for use in harsh environments, whether you’re shooting outdoors or in unpredictable conditions.
3. Optical Image Stabilization (IS)
The built-in Image Stabilization helps reduce the effects of camera shake, especially when shooting at high magnifications or slower shutter speeds. It’s particularly helpful for handheld macro photography, ensuring clearer, sharper images without the need for a tripod in many situations.
4. Ultrasonic Motor (USM) for Fast and Quiet Autofocus
The Ultrasonic Motor (USM) ensures fast, precise, and quiet autofocus, which is important for both macro work and video shooting. The autofocus system allows for smooth transitions between subjects without disturbing the scene, making it great for capturing detailed close-ups or shooting quietly in nature.
5. Advanced Optical Design
The lens incorporates a sophisticated optical design that includes one UD (Ultra-low Dispersion) element, which reduces chromatic aberrations and ensures sharp, high-contrast images. The lens also delivers excellent color reproduction and clarity even when shooting wide open at f/2.8.
6. Rounded 9-Blade Aperture for Smooth Bokeh
The nine-blade rounded aperture contributes to beautiful, smooth background blur (bokeh), which is ideal for portraiture and subject isolation. The creamy bokeh enhances your subject’s presence and helps create a pleasing, natural look in out-of-focus areas.
7. Minimum Focusing Distance of 0.99 ft (30 cm)
With a minimum focusing distance of just 30 cm, the lens is capable of capturing incredible close-up details. It allows you to get up close to your subject, making it perfect for photographing small objects like insects, flowers, or textures with exceptional clarity
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1. Wide f/1.4 Aperture
The f/1.4 maximum aperture allows for excellent low-light performance and the ability to achieve beautiful background blur (bokeh), making it ideal for portraits, isolating subjects, and creative compositions. It also enables faster shutter speeds, reducing motion blur in low-light conditions.
2. USM (Ultrasonic Motor) Autofocus
The lens features Canon’s Ultrasonic Motor (USM), which provides fast, precise, and near-silent autofocus. This is especially beneficial for shooting video and capturing spontaneous moments without worrying about intrusive autofocus noise.
3. Compact and Lightweight
The Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 is a lightweight and compact lens, making it an ideal choice for street photography, travel, and everyday use. It’s easy to carry around and perfect for those who want a discreet, high-quality lens.
4. High-Quality Optics
The lens is designed with aspherical elements, reducing chromatic aberration and improving sharpness and contrast. This ensures high-quality images with accurate color reproduction, even when shooting wide open at f/1.4.
5. Beautiful Bokeh for Portraiture
Thanks to its wide aperture and rounded aperture blades, the EF 50mm f/1.4 creates a pleasing bokeh effect, which is perfect for portraits and creating artistic out-of-focus backgrounds that highlight the subject.
6. Manual Focus Override
The lens features full-time manual focus override, allowing you to make fine adjustments to focus even while the lens is set to autofocus. This provides flexibility when you need more precise control, such as in macro or critical focus situations.
7. Ideal for Full-Frame and APS-C Cameras
While optimized for full-frame cameras, the EF 50mm f/1.4 is also compatible with APS-C crop sensor cameras, where it provides an effective focal length of about 80mm. This makes it suitable for portrait photography and tighter framing.
8. Durable Build
Constructed with a robust build, the lens is designed to handle everyday shooting situations. While it is lightweight, it still feels solid and reliable, making it suitable for both amateurs and professionals.
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The lens features STM (Stepping Motor) technology that delivers near-silent, smooth autofocus operation, making it particularly effective for both still photography and video recording.
A bright f/1.8 maximum aperture allows for effective low-light shooting and provides excellent control over depth of field for creative background blur effects.
Enhanced optical design with specialized coatings minimizes ghosting and flare while improving overall image quality compared to previous versions.
The seven-blade circular aperture design creates smooth, natural-looking background blur (bokeh) that’s especially appealing for portrait photography.
Full-time manual focus override allows photographers to make fine focus adjustments even while in autofocus mode.
The durable metal mount provides improved stability and longevity compared to plastic mounts used in earlier versions.
Compact dimensions of 69.2 x 39.3mm make it highly portable and convenient for everyday carry.
Minimum focusing distance of 0.35m allows for moderately close focusing while maintaining the natural perspective of the 50mm focal length.
The lens provides a field of view equivalent to 80mm when used on APS-C sensor cameras, making it an excellent short telephoto option.
Improved focus ring placement and operation provides better tactile feedback and control during manual focusing compared to previous versions.
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Zoom Range (55-250mm)
The 55-250mm focal length provides a flexible zoom range, ideal for photographing distant subjects like wildlife, sports, and nature, as well as providing excellent compression for portraits.
2. Image Stabilization (IS)
Built-in Image Stabilization helps reduce camera shake and blurring, especially in low-light conditions or at longer focal lengths. It allows for sharper handheld shots, improving the chances of a clear image even at slower shutter speeds.
3. STM Autofocus
Canon’s Stepping Motor (STM) technology delivers smooth, fast, and nearly silent autofocus, making it especially useful for video recording where quiet autofocus operation is essential. It also ensures quick subject tracking in still photography.
4. Compact and Lightweight Design
Despite its extended zoom range, the EF 55-250mm is lightweight and compact, making it easy to carry and handle for long periods, which is especially beneficial for travel and outdoor shooting.
5. Optimized for APS-C Sensor Cameras
This lens is ideal for Canon APS-C DSLR cameras, where it provides an effective focal length of approximately 88-400mm (due to the 1.6x crop factor), making it suitable for even more distant subjects.
6. High Optical Quality
The lens uses advanced optical elements to minimize distortions like chromatic aberration and ghosting, ensuring high-quality, sharp images with vibrant colors and minimal optical flaws.
7. Circular Aperture
The lens has a seven-blade circular aperture, which helps produce smooth, natural-looking bokeh (background blur), making it useful for portraits and creative photography.
8. Close Focusing Distance
The lens has a relatively short minimum focusing distance, allowing you to get closer to your subject for more detailed shots, useful for both macro-style close-ups and general telephoto photography.
9. Compatibility
The EF 55-250mm lens is compatible with Canon’s full-frame and APS-C DSLR cameras, though it is especially well-suited for APS-C models where the crop factor effectively extends its reach.