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EOS 350D and Canon 50mm f1.8

Started Dec 14, 2014 | Questions thread
Doug Pardee
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Re: EOS 350D and Canon 50mm f1.8

chits wrote:

I am planning to buy this lens and after searching here saw it has focus issue,

What you guys suggest ? My main purpose is to shot portrait of kids and family on holidays,wedding ( night mainly) , Kindly suggest , Does Sigma or Tamron has good wide aperture lens for 350D ?

The problem is that the autofocus (AF) system on the XT/350D is designed for f/4 zoom lenses. It wasn't designed to be accurate enough to handle the narrow depth of field at f/1.8. The AF accuracy varies from camera to camera. If the AF in your camera happens to work well at f/1.8, great. If not, too bad.

Later "Rebel" models — even the XTi/400D — have improved AF systems that provide increased accuracy at larger apertures (at least with the center focus point). The original Digital Rebel (300D) and the XT/350D, however, don't have that.

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