{"id":9110,"date":"2015-05-11T00:01:58","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T04:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canonpricewatch.com\/blog\/?p=9110"},"modified":"2015-05-11T09:33:23","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T13:33:23","slug":"new-ef-50mm-f1-8-stm-announced-surprise-only-125","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/new-ef-50mm-f1-8-stm-announced-surprise-only-125\/","title":{"rendered":"New EF 50mm f\/1.8 STM Announced &#8212; Surprise, Only $125"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usa.canon.com\/cusa\/consumer\/products\/cameras\/ef_lens_lineup\/ef_50mm_f_1_8_stm\">Canon just announced<\/a> the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canonpricewatch.com\/product\/05790\/Canon-EF-50mm-f1.8-STM-price.html\">EF 50mm f\/1.8 STM<\/a>. Surprise, it&#8217;s available for pre-order for only <a href=\"\/go\/BH-Photo-Video\/EF-50mm-f1.8-STM\/p=5790&#038;m=5\">$125.00<\/a> &#8212; the same as the current MAP price on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canonpricewatch.com\/product\/00007\/Canon-EF-50mm-f1.8-II-price.html\">older EF 50mm f\/1.8 II<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We are very impressed. Canon appears to have delivered a lot more value in this 50mm f\/1.8 refresh, with the inclusion of the STM stepper motor, a metal (not plastic) mount, and rounded 7-blade aperture for rounder bokeh. All while keeping the price at a very reasonable <a href=\"\/go\/BH-Photo-Video\/EF-50mm-f1.8-STM\/p=5790&#038;m=5\">$125.00<\/a> &#8212; Canon&#8217;s lowest (MAP) priced lens.<\/p>\n<p>The lens is now available to pre-order (<a href=\"\/go\/BH-Photo-Video\/EF-50mm-f1.8-STM\/p=5790&#038;m=5\">B&#038;H<\/a>, <a href=\"\/go\/Adorama\/EF-50mm-f1.8-STM\/p=5790&#038;m=6\">Adorama<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canonpricewatch.com\/go\/Amazon\/EF-50mm-f1.8-STM\/p=5790&#038;m=20\">Amazon<\/a>) with a estimated ship date of May 21st.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canon just announced the new EF 50mm f\/1.8 STM. Surprise, it&#8217;s available for pre-order for only $125.00 &#8212; the same as the current MAP price on the older EF 50mm f\/1.8 II. We are very impressed. Canon appears to have delivered a lot more value in this 50mm f\/1.8 refresh, with the inclusion of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[424],"class_list":["post-9110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-canon-ef-50mm-f1-8-stm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9110"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9122,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9110\/revisions\/9122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}