Beach Photo

Well, well, good news boys and girls, I just got the a new toy to play with, and that’s Canon’s 50mm f1.4 lens, for those of you who don’t know, 50mm is the zoom range equivalent for the 35mm camera age, and the f1.4, well, think of it this way

the lower number the f stop is, the wider the lens opens
the higher number the f stop is, the smaller the lens opens

in other word, the f1.4 lens would be more expensive compared to the f2.8 lens, simply because it could open up the lens wider, hence catch more light, throw more stuff in the background out of focus, all the better, but you will have to pay pretty pennies for it.

Any who, I just got the lens before I went on the trip to Galveston, so I thought to myself, what’s the better time to try it out than the Galveston trip? Only to find out that the 50mm f1.4 lens is not able to focus anymore after I took the pictures above, a quick search online found out that they cost about 1/2 of the new len’s price.

The lens is in the Canon repair center now, I am getting an estimate for the repair cost before deciding on what to do…. ;_;