{"id":9185,"date":"2015-05-21T08:24:55","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T12:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canonpricewatch.com\/blog\/?p=9185"},"modified":"2019-07-11T20:47:52","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T00:47:52","slug":"new-ef-50mm-f1-8-stm-in-stock-and-available-to-ship-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/new-ef-50mm-f1-8-stm-in-stock-and-available-to-ship-today\/","title":{"rendered":"New EF 50mm f\/1.8 STM In Stock and Available to Ship Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The recently announced <a href=\"\/product\/05790\/Canon-EF-50mm-f1.8-STM-price.html\">Canon EF 50mm f\/1.8 STM<\/a> is now in-stock and available to ship out today at most major stores, including <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>, and <a href=\"\/go\/Amazon\/EF-50mm-f1.8-STM\/p=5790&#038;m=20\">Amazon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At a price of only <a href=\"\/go\/BH-Photo-Video\/EF-50mm-f1.8-STM\/p=5790&#038;m=5\">$125.00<\/a>, we&#8217;re extremely impressed with the value they&#8217;ve delivered in this refresh. They have resolved all of our biggest gripes about the original version, and it is a great upgrade even if you have the original:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A metal mount, not plastic (the older 50mm f\/1.8 Mk I with a metal mount sells for $200+ used!)\n<li>A more accurate and quieter STM focusing motor\n<li>Rounded aperture blades, and 7 of them, for smoother bokeh\n<li>Reduced minimum focusing distance\n<\/ul>\n<p>When readers ask us &#8220;I only have a 18-55 kit lens, what&#8217;s a good next lens to buy?&#8221;, our go-to lenses used to be the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canonpricewatch.com\/product\/00007\/Canon-EF-50mm-f1.8-II-price.html\">50mm f\/1.8 II<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canonpricewatch.com\/product\/00006\/Canon-EF-50mm-f1.4-USM-price.html\">50mm f\/1.4 USM<\/a>. Now it&#8217;s this new <a href=\"\/product\/05790\/Canon-EF-50mm-f1.8-STM-price.html\">EF 50mm f\/1.8 STM<\/a>, hands down. It allows an aspiring photographer to experience prime lenses &#8212; shooting with wider apertures to achieve shallow depth of field, and moving your feet to re-frame rather than standing and zooming &#8212; all without breaking the bank. At $125, a fantastic price point, we&#8217;re expecting this lens to be very popular.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recently announced Canon EF 50mm f\/1.8 STM is now in-stock and available to ship out today at most major stores, including B&#038;H, Adorama, and Amazon. At a price of only $125.00, we&#8217;re extremely impressed with the value they&#8217;ve delivered in this refresh. They have resolved all of our biggest gripes about the original version, [&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-9185","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\/9185","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=9185"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9205,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9185\/revisions\/9205"}],"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=9185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}