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Repaired 50mm 1.4 at distance

 
steve126a
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Apr 27, 2013 20:29 |  #1

I've had my 50mm 1.4 for almost a year now. On my crop body, it was dead-on. When I moved up to my 6D, it seemed to front focus. I tried to Dot Tune the lens, but quickly ran out of MFA in the tele direction. Sensing something was off in my photos, I sent the lens back into Canon. They repaired the lens claiming that something was not right inside the lens, causing the focus issue.

I get the lens back, and now it almost seems worse. The softness in general is pretty bad. When photographing people/objects wide open at distances between 1-3 feet, the lens seems ok. When taking photos of people/objects between 6-20 feet, they get soft really quick. I understand that f1.4 is not the sharpest aperature, but should the subject still be relatively sharp at distances beyond 10 feet?

I'm attaching some 100% crops to show as examples (focus point is always right eye):

IMAGE: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v660/Steve126a/3_feet_zps76361899.jpg
IMAGE: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v660/Steve126a/6_feet_zpsae8fa826.jpg
IMAGE: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v660/Steve126a/10_Feet_zps07eba5fa.jpg
IMAGE: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v660/Steve126a/15_feet_zpsd77af584.jpg
IMAGE: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v660/Steve126a/20_feet_zps3c2e0aae.jpg
IMAGE: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v660/Steve126a/30_feet_zpscb21fad1.jpg

Here's another shot of a plant at around 3-4 feet. Focus was on large leaf in center.
IMAGE: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v660/Steve126a/Plant_zpsd38ea79c.jpg

I haven't tried MFA'ing the lens again, I was assuming it would come back better after the repair. The repair sheet in the box said if the issue persists to send back the camera and lens together. Maybe I should go that route.

Can anyone post shots of their 50mm 1.4 wide open at around these distances? I just want to make sure I'm not being paranoid.

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Apr 27, 2013 20:45 |  #2

Yeah there's something wrong, try manually focusing it and see if you can get better results.

But looks to me like one of the elements is off, it's kinda acting like a macro lens.


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Apr 28, 2013 08:17 |  #3

Yes, tripod, remote switch, LiveView 5x 10x MF. Will tell us all if it is your AF or the lens.


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