YONGNUO YN35mm F2 Lens 1:2 AF/MF Wide-Angle Fixed/Prime Auto Focus Lens for Canon EF Mount EOS Camera

Color me impressed. The other reviews aren't lying. This isn't a quiet lets, it's not a wonderful lens, but it's a good lens. I've done photography as a professional for over 12 years now and owned several canon lenses in this range including both 35 1.4L's, and the old 35 f2 Canon. I used this lens paired with an older 5d Mark III for a wedding a few weeks ago, and did a lot of the getting ready photos with it. The bride absolutely loved the image quality that came out of it from the photos she selected, and it worked really well. No it wasn't super fast like an L series lens, and yes it's a little noisy, but it's perfectly usable and gives great results. For anyone looking for a slightly wider 50mm, I can vouch for the quality from this lens. I think it will be perfect as a walk around PJ type lens for my older 5d Mark III.

I love this little lens on a full frame camera, especially for street walks. It's easy to use, light weight and works incredibly well. The versatility of the lens and quality of it is a good value.

For the money, this is a fantastic little lens. I use mostly fast primes but I'm not quite at the financial level where I can shell out for the top of the line glass. This little 35mm f2 is a fantastic piece of glass for the money. I've been using it now for a couple of months... I've got around 2000 shutter actuations on it. What you'll find is a lens that is very reminiscent of the good ol' nifty fifty for around the same price. Build quality is a little better than the nifty fifty, it has a metal mount instead of a plastic one... but the rest of the body feels just as fragile as the nifty fifty. That said.. after 2000 shutter actuations on it, it hasn't fallen apart yet... so I figure just because it feels cheap doesn't mean it is garbage build wise. It sounds a bit like an anti-aircraft gun sighting in on a target when it focuses... very loud next to your face. It doesn't do a lot of hunting to nail down the autofocus, but it is fairly slow to achieve focus. Mine had a bit of a back focus issue when I got it, but that isn't super unusual and you can take care of that in camera with AF Microadjustment and get it up to speed. Color rendering is great... I've used this lens on both a T3i and a Sony A7rII, I haven't noticed a whole lot of color fringing in my photos like some reviews mentioned, but when I have seen some it's been in very high contrast shots and was fairly easy to take care of in post. It is actually pretty sharp wide open and does obvioiusly get sharper as you stop down. The bokeh it produces is actually pretty pleasant, no complaints. I don't think it is sharp enough wide open for portraits if I plan to print them, but I feel no hesitation shooting portraits with it wide open if the photos are going to stay digital... it is plenty sharp at f2 for instagram/facebook/flickr/digital photo frames etc. My biggest beef with the lens, hands down, and the reason why I give this lens 4 stars out of 5... is the lack of dedicated lens hood attachment. This is a 35mm lens... don't make me thread a lens hood onto the barrel... I'm obviously going to want to take this lens outside...

For the Price this Lens produces clear front and rear images little on the dark side on standard setting have to compensate.

As a beginner "photographer", this was a great purchase. It achieves great bokeh shots and is a great landscape lens. As well. Its does a fairly good job at macro shots. If you add the macro extenders with this, even better so. Heads up. The motor within is pretty loud, so not recommended for videos unless you plan to add in separate audio for your videos. But aside from that, especially for a beginner, 5 out of 5.

My review based on using it solely with a Canon 5D Mark IV: For the price, this lens is not terrible. Picture quality is very sharp and is on par with Canon EF lenses. But the build quality is not, however. The lens cap pops off very easily, sometimes just from placing it in my camera bag. There's lots of play in the housing of the lens. The plastics are cheap. I haven't used it much for these reasons, so I can't really speak to how well it holds up to heavy use. My guess is not very well. After trying it with a Canon EOS Rebel 2000: This lens simply does not work. My Canon EF lenses all seem to work just fine with this camera. This one seats fine, the VF and AF work fine, no issue setting the f-stop. But I click the shutter, and it stays open and the camera display says the battery is dead. I'm not even halfway through my first roll on these batteries, so there's no way they're actually dead. I open the battery compartment and close it, the camera comes back to life with full batteries, and the shutter closes. I googled the issue and other Rebel 2000 users have experienced the same thing. Conclusion: A good value lens if it works with your camera, but it may not. Consult Yongnuo's website before you buy to see if your camera is supported. As it turns out, neither of my cameras is! But it does work with my DSLR. Its failure to support an EF film camera means it's not a true EF lens.

I have been using this lens for a few days now after purchasing it, and I think it is excellent. It is small/lightweight and the autofocus works well. The 2.0 aperture really pulls out the depth of field capture of my Canon Rebel SL3, and paired with a Neutral Density filter this lens is excellent. The video stabilization is solid, and the image quality is very good for the price of the lens. I will say that the retracting/extending plastic ring that pulls in and out of the lens while the autofocus goes feels very cheap, and is a slightly loose fit. It works 100% fine and it is the price you pay for an exceptional lens for just over 100$.

I was searching for a 35mm lens to add to my collection and didn’t have a massive budget. I decided to take a chance on this one, and wasn’t that impressed. For reference, I shoot with the canon 70d. First, this little lens has the noisiest autofocus sound I’ve ever heard with a lens. I was definitely not expecting that. I thought I would get used to it, but as I used it over a few days the sound continued to bother me. Not excessively so, but if you were shooting somewhere that required silence/quiet, you’d hear this lens every time it focused. Second, it had some severe focusing issues when paired with my camera body. This may not be the case with every body+lens combo, but this problem made the lens almost unusable to me as it would miss the focus on 90% of the shots. This obviously poses a huge problem if shooting a one time event, or even just in everyday photography. I did my best to manually calibrate it, which helped some, but the focus plane changed when the camera was held horizontally or vertically. The lens itself seems to be sturdily built, and is pretty light weight. I would have returned to Amazon had I not missed the return window. However, the photos that were in focus came out beautiful and tack sharp. The quality is great for the price of the lens.