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Canon 50mm 1.4 focus issues

Started Sep 24, 2013 | Discussions thread
Armin Hermann Regular Member • Posts: 299
AF idiosyncrasies

ClaudiaC wrote:

Any tips? I feel do frustrated when this sort of thing happens and it has been quite frequent lately.

Claudia,

many good suggestions have been made. They may help you but maybe they wont. Truth of the matter is this: Your camera does not support accurate focusing at 1.4 very well. So dont take it personal if you miss the shot.

I can only recommend to shoot dead center at 1.4 (manually select the center AF point, and do not recompose before shutter release). Personally i find this awful but you can frame the picture afterwards in lightroom. Another thing i find awful.

I could go on lamenting about AF idiosyncrasies and large apertures but this wont help you either. So instead i wish

Good luck!

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