Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM Standard & Medium Telephoto Lens for Canon SLR Cameras - Fixed

I had this len for years, but I always had issues with the autofocus. It was always a hit or miss with it. The performance would be amazing outdoors, with great lighting, but once you indoors, the issues are very apparent. Now the autofocus stop working completely and this is s KNOWN ISSUE with these lens and the repair will set you back another $100+ to fix. Not cool Canon. Right now I’m just relying on manual focus because this len is super expensive, and I want to get the most out of it. It takes amazing pictures but I’m so disappointed with the autofocus on this len.

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I orignally said that this was one of the best lenses you could get for the money, but apparently as some others have pointed out there is a flaw in this lens that may after a certain amount of time may start losing fast autofocus and will end up just not autofocusing properly in certain siuations often getting stuck" and you have to switch to manual to correct it. For the money about the same price you should consider the 85mm 1.8 which doesnt seem to have that issue so far. and instead get the 50mm 1.8 STM lens which is much less in cost but still provides very good quality. Its a shame this issue is there and that Canon hasnt bothered to upgrade the lens so to speak with a new version (since its based on a 20 year old design) but yeah. a GREAT lens WHEN IT WORKS but over time.....you may develop issues. so also you may wish to make sure to get this lens brand new too for less chance of that issue. :-.. update: i got a brand new lens of this type lately and had not used it all that much overall and after a while it too stopped autofocusing correctly and worse still is when i tried to use manual focus then it stopped working as well... (due to the way the lens is made if autofocus stops manual will likelay also stop working too) rendering the lens completely useless. Canon needs to seriously make a new updated version of this lens to correct this flaw. it is NOT worth investing the money only to have the thing fail after a while. I have the 85mm f1.8 and i only had one copy and it NEVER lost auofocus so i dont understand what the problem is with this lens. thats why i am giving it two stars when it WORKS its an amazing lens but this design flaw NEEDS to be fixed by canon . youd actually be better off buying the lesser 50mm f1.8 lens then this one. Canon please get with the times and come out with an updated version of this lens that fixes this issue thank you.

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