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Canon 50mm f/1.4 focus and sharpen problem

Started Dec 14, 2014 | Discussions thread
clarnibass Senior Member • Posts: 2,480
Re: Canon 50mm f/1.4 focus and sharpen problem

I don't want to discourage you and I'm not saying the camera reset didn't solve a problem (weird but who knows...), however...

In your new side-to-side examples, you can see that the good focus example (right) has the center focus point exactly on the big ball where it says "student". The out of focus (left) has the center focus point under the writing, exactly on that thing that is in front of the ball, and there is even more contrast just in front/below that.

So again, it makes sense that it was front focused (in comaprison with the green ball, but correct for the photo). I'm not saying this is what happened, but in the left example it makes more sense that the focus isn't on the green ball. The focus in both of those photos is what I would expect it to be, assuming you used the center focus point.

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