got my replacement SL1...

last month, i decided to go back to DSLR for now from mirrorless, and i need very light weight gear. i sold my a6000 and lenses and bought an SL1 plus STM kit lens and the 55-250 STM, followed by a yongnuo 50mm 1.8. i'd rented an SL1 and 55-250 STM in 2014, and was satisfied with the pics i took overall.

so the new camera shows up and we take a photo trip to marina del rey. unfortunately while my BIF pics turned out pretty well and the camera and lens focused like magic for most of the action shots, all the pics of stuff like flowers, architectural pieces, still lifes, etc, all came out not exactly out of focus, but more degraded, so that viewing them at 60% or 75% looked like they were enlarged to 150% to 200%. oddly that wasn't the case with the motion pics so much.

at first i wanted it to be my fault, which would mean i could fix it. canon took a guess it was the lens, which i almost sent back, but my husband suggested i try the other two lenses, and both gave the same result, although it was better on a tripod than handheld. so i sent back the camera and kit lens with a heavy heart - while almost all the pics looked worse than my phone pics from 2 phones ago, the quick focus for BIF was the best i've experienced.

my replacement camera arrived 11 days after i sent the first one back, and yesterday i got to put it through its paces. i'm happy to report that with the same 55-250 STM, the pics came out much better. what a relief! and a local squirrel decided i wasn't a threat and posed for me for around 20 minutes

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