Title: Familiar Ground
Review: After many years working with film and a 50mm lens, this marks a return to old habits of picture framing, and generally it has been a pleasant one. Very good to great sharpness of focus, and the typical excellent light and color qualities Canon brings to its lenses. But the feel for manual focus leaves something to be desired. The focus ring feels loose not firm, being able to be moved from side to side, and it has a gritty feel to its manual focusing, not smooth as virtually every other Canon lense I've owned has been. The result is where I would want it, but the feel of the lens leaves me uneasy. A look at someone else's copy of this lens showed these less than wonderful qualities to be even more pronounced in his. The kicker is that to get excellent build quality, you evidently have to spend five times as much for the f1.2 version.
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