Best affordable Lenses
Here you’ll find the best Lenses, selected from a price range that is frequently in demand. They must have an average customer rating of at least 4 stars. The ranking is based on sales volume as well as availability, so that the most popular affordable products appear at the top. For each product, we provide a short description and the most important insights from customer reviews. This page always stays fresh and updates automatically.
1. Canon RF 50mm f/1.8 STM
The RF 50mm F1.8 STM is a bright, quiet, and affordable prime lens that opens up creative possibilities—perfect for upgrading from a kit lens. Discover your creativity and expand your photographic opportunities with this remarkably compact lens. This prime lens offers great fun for a small price.
The RF 50mm F1.8 STM is small, lightweight, and budget-friendly. With a maximum aperture of f/1.8, it excels in low light and allows for creative control over depth of field. With innovative optics and a very quiet STM motor, you can easily explore entirely new possibilities.
Thanks to the high aperture of f/1.8, you can create artistic and impressive images even at low ISO values, characterized by precise subject focus and attractive background blur.
The STM technology focuses very smoothly and nearly silently thanks to the stepping motor—ideal for both photos and videos. The Super Spectra coating contributes to the excellent image quality of this lens. Weighing only about 160 g and with a diameter of approximately 40.5 mm, it is extremely compact and lightweight. Without any adapters, it is your perfect partner for daily shooting with EOS R series cameras.
2. Sigma 18-50mm f/2.8 DC DN Sony E
The Sigma I-Series is a line of compact, beautifully designed high-performance optics for mirrorless camera systems. Included in the collection is the Sigma 90mm prime lens, which expands the Contemporary product line. It combines excellent resolution with a small body that is perfectly balanced for mirrorless systems.
3. Sony FE 50mm f/1.8
Weighing less than 186g, the new lightweight fixed focal length FE 50mm f/1.8 (SEL50F18F) delivers an excellent blend of high performance and compactness, making it the ideal choice for amateur photographers and videographers who want the benefits of a wide aperture lens. The lens features a new optical design with an aspherical element that compensates for all types of aberration and delivers beautiful, clear images. In addition, the round aperture with a maximum aperture of f/1.8 creates beautiful bokeh effects that emphasise the subject against the blurred background. The robust metal housing ensures a longer service life for the new fixed focal length.
4. Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 STM
The EF 1:1.8/50mm STM has an improved technical design compared to its predecessor. Canon's Super Spectra coating reduces side effects, while the 7-louvre aperture creates a smooth out-of-focus effect. The Stepping Motor (STM) ensures continuous and virtually silent autofocus. Compact, lightweight and affordable, the EF 1:1.8/50mm STM is a valuable addition to your camera bag. With a high aperture of f/1.8, this lens allows precise control of depth of field, giving you the creative freedom to focus on the subject and immerse the rest of the image in a soft blur. This draws the viewer's eye to a specific area of the image. In addition, the large initial aperture makes it ideal for use in low light conditions. The focal length of 50 mm is particularly suitable for portrait photography in combination with an EOS DSLR with APS-C sensor. The EF 1:1.8/50mm STM is also practical for full-frame cameras and offers a natural-looking angle of view as well as the appropriate perspective for various everyday tasks.
The lens has a closest focusing distance of just 35cm, allowing you to get closer to the subject and achieve a higher image scale. The 7-blade diaphragm ensures appealing light reflections with a blurred background. The improved image quality compared to the previous model is thanks to the Canon Super Spectra coating, which effectively reduces aperture reflections and stray light. At just 160 grams, the lens has a compact and lightweight design that fits easily into your camera bag without significantly increasing the overall weight of your equipment. The new design is compatible with both entry-level and semi-professional EOS cameras and features a metal lens mount for a robust connection to the camera body. In addition, the manual focus ring allows precise control of the focal plane.
5. Sigma 30mm f/1.4 DC DN C, Sony E
The light-sensitive standard lens Sigma 30mm F1.4 DC DN | Contemporary allows users of mirrorless cameras to enjoy photography with a maximum aperture of F1.4. Particularly appealing is the beautiful bokeh that can only be achieved with a fast lens, along with the exceptionally precise optical performance that characterizes a top-class prime lens. The latest technologies and design considerations, characteristic of the Contemporary product line concept, are well balanced in this new lens. A prime lens that offers a field of view similar to that of the human eye at approximately 50mm and an aperture of F1.4. The shallow depth of field at wide open aperture provides photographers with ideal conditions for captivating portraits and still lifes. For landscape shots or snapshots, a smaller aperture with greater depth of field can be chosen. Standard lenses offer a wide range of photographic applications and have therefore been a staple for photographers for decades. This standard lens provides a 35mm equivalent focal length of 60mm on the Micro Four Thirds system and 45mm on the Sony E-Mount system. Sigma lenses labeled "DC" deliver optimal performance on cameras with APS-C image sensors. Using a DC lens on a full-frame sensor camera inevitably leads to vignetting. For optimal results, the active image area of the sensor should be matched to the image circle of the lens. Sigma lenses labeled "DN" provide optimal performance in conjunction with cameras that have a short flange focal distance.
6. Sony E PZ 18-105mm f/4 G OSS
As the first Sony G Lens designed specifically for E-Mount cameras, the SELP18105G combines high image quality with a precise and quiet power zoom. The constant F4 aperture means you get stunning image quality even in low light. Are you filming? This powerful zoom uses Handycam technology to provide smooth zooming that is difficult to achieve manually. It's also very quiet so you won't startle your protagonists, while the integrated zoom lever allows you to maintain an even zoom speed. Known for their quality, G Series lenses offer excellent imaging performance with maximum contrast right to the edges of the image. The lens' built-in optical SteadyShot image stabilisation system ensures crisp, blur-free photos and video for hand-held shooting. Instead of a standard polygon shaped aperture, this lens offers a circular aperture with 7 blades for a natural, soft bokeh. Aspherical lens elements ensure minimal distortion, while ED (Extra-low Dispersion) glass elements ensure outstanding contrast, resolution and colour depth. The integrated focusing mechanism ensures a constant lens length, is easy to use and has a fast autofocus and a small minimum focus distance. In addition, the filter thread on the front of the lens does not rotate - a clear advantage when using polarizing filters.
7. Sony FE 35mm f/1.8
Versatile lens with fixed focal length. Quiet and reliable AF tracking. High resolution even at maximum aperture. Simple control - for example autofocus slider. Compact and lightweight - despite full format.
8. Sigma 16mm f/1.4 DC DN (C), Sony E
The Sigma 16mm F1.4 DC DN | Contemporary is the world's first interchangeable lens for mirrorless Sony E-Mount cameras with APS-C format sensors. It offers a field of view equivalent to a 24mm focal length in 35mm full-frame format and a maximum aperture of F1.4. In the Micro Four Thirds mount, the lens's field of view corresponds to a 32mm focal length in 35mm full-frame format, also with an aperture of F1.4. It is the high-aperture wide-angle lens that photographers with mirrorless cameras have been waiting for. DN lenses for mirrorless cameras are characterized by a lightweight, compact design that is built for everyday use and delivers outstanding performance across all key focal lengths.
The 16mm F1.4 DC DN | Contemporary builds on the success of the 30mm F1.4 DC DN | Contemporary, which Sigma released in 2016 as the first lens in a series of prime lenses for mirrorless cameras. It combines the brightness of F1.4 with optical excellence. The 16mm F1.4 DC DN | Contemporary, which follows the same development concept as the Sigma 30mm F1.4 DC DN | Contemporary, features a lens construction of 16 elements in 13 groups and is made from high-quality materials. This lens effectively minimizes optical aberrations and delivers excellent resolution even at wide open apertures and throughout the entire aperture range. The lens design and stepping motor also provide smooth autofocus during video recording, and the mount is dust and splash resistant due to a sealing.
9. Canon EF-S 55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS STM
Get close to the action with the EF-S 55-250mm 1:4-5.6 IS STM. The lens is the ideal complement to the standard 18-55mm lens on your EOS and is perfect for nature, sports and travel photography. It combines powerful telephoto zoom characteristics with first-class image quality and intuitive handling. The EF-S 55-250mm 1:4-5.6 IS STM employs Canon Image Stabiliser technology to ensure that your shots are always razor-sharp. This enables exposure times up to 3.5 stops longer than would normally be possible hand-held, without the increased risk of camera shake - ideal in low light or at high zoom settings. Panning detection deactivates the image stabiliser when the camera is panned horizontally or vertically, so that moving subjects can be tracked with the camera without any problems.
The EF-S 55-250mm 1:4-5.6 IS STM works with a Stepping Motor (STM), which ensures continuous and quiet focusing when shooting video with the EOS and fast and precise autofocus when taking photos. Focusing via STM is so quiet that the camera's internal microphone does not pick up any noise that would interfere with the sound recording during video shooting. The EF-S 55-250mm 1:4-5.6 IS STM is equipped with a UD (Ultra-low Dispersion) glass element and Super Spectra coatings, so that it delivers razor-sharp, high-contrast images across the entire zoom range. A 7-blade iris diaphragm increases the quality of the out-of-focus area so that your subject stands out clearly against a blurred background. A manual focus ring allows you to fine-tune the focus manually at any time; the close focusing distance of approx. 0.85 m allows you to photograph particularly small subjects. A fixed front element enables the effortless use of filters.
10. Viltrox AF 13mm f/1.4
The Viltrox AF 13/1.4 XF is a super wide-angle lens with a large aperture for Fujifilm X-Mount camera models. It features an STM focusing motor, stepless aperture adjustment, and an anti-fouling coating, and supports autofocus with eye and face detection. Its compact and lightweight design makes it an excellent choice for creating vlogs.
Fourteen lens elements in 11 groups ensure a high-quality optical design. Two aspherical lens elements are optimized for distortion and off-axis optical aberration, providing excellent resolution across the entire focusing range. Four ED (Extra-low Dispersion) lenses significantly reduce color fringing and chromatic aberrations, ensuring greater clarity and color accuracy, regardless of the aperture you choose.
The STM autofocus motor delivers fast and precise autofocus with a minimum object distance of just 8.7 inches. The wide-angle lens features an expanded field of view that surpasses the human eye. It is distinguished by its shorter focal length compared to standard lenses. This shorter focal length increases the field of view, making subjects appear smaller and allowing more to be captured in the photo. Additionally, the wide-angle lens creates a noticeable sense of spatial depth—distant objects appear even further away, giving your images a striking sense of depth layering.
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