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Canon EF f1.4 won't focus, despite my singing

Started Mar 19, 2013 | Questions thread
Lemming51
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Re: Canon EF f1.4 won't focus, despite my singing

Scarlet Pimpernel wrote:

It appears that my Canon EF f1.4 won't focus: however much I sing gently to it, it simply refuses to focus on anything below 3 metres. ideas?

At the risk of stating the obvious:

AF won't move the focus mechanism closer than 3m?  That would mean it's broken, have it serviced.

Is it just misfocusing by some amount when the subject is less than 3m away?   Try in-camera MFA (if available) or have the lens calibrated.

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