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Everybody's first prime lens should be this

Started Apr 2, 2013 | User reviews thread
Scott Larson Veteran Member • Posts: 7,505
Re: Everybody's first prime lens should be this

dherzstein wrote:

I sold mine after the second repair for the focus mechanism binding and preventing AF.

I've also broken two of them. I guess it would teach a beginning photographer to be very careful with their equipment.

Oddly I've knocked the cheap plastic 50mm f1.8 all around and it still works. It's getting full of dust though.

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