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EOS 350D and Canon 50mm f1.8

Started Dec 14, 2014 | Questions thread
Susan S. Senior Member • Posts: 2,058
Re: EOS 350D and Canon 50mm f1.8
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R2D2 wrote:

chits wrote:

@R2D2 Thanks buddy

so you wanna say each 50mm f1.8 lens may be different some can AF focus well and some can't

I think that's certainly been the general experience around here unfortunately.

So i should purchase from store rather than online

Whichever has the preferred return/exchange policy. My advice is to just don't ever keep an underperforming lens.

Good luck to you,

R2

I find it really hard to tell with  a 1.8 lens wide open whether it's the lens in front of the camera or the idiot behind it that is the problem.  My 50 1.8 performs pretty well wide open on a tripod, aimed at a target, yet I get a very very low percentage of bang in focus sharp eye informal portrait keepers from it used wider than f2.8 hand held.  Because it will focus on a target fine, I assumed it was the user.  Then I got the 85mm 1.8, and under the same conditions it hits focus every time on the eye.  So maybe it is the lens (by which time the 50mm was out of warranty).

my copy of the 50 1.8 generally front focuses a bit, but also will pick something infront or slightly behind the plane of focus-it is particularly fond of almost invisible stray hairs.  or it will focus on nothing at all.

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