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Soft lens??
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This is prob. a dumb question… but do lenses get softer, or “looser” after a while? Let’s say, 3 years of loads and loads of shooting, bashing around, etc.
My 50 mm feels soft-ish…
I’ve had my camera cleaned a few times… can you do the same thing for a lens? If so, where? Or would it be worth it?
Thanks in advance,
CatherineCatherine,
Are the images softer? or just how the camera feels?
As long as the images are crisp then I wouldn’t worry.
Andy
:-)
My images are always a bit soft, independent of lens…
What I mean, in this instance, is how the lens feels. If I shake the lens (not madly mind you) it feels a bit loose and, um, wobbly? Hard to describe. I’m starting to do some studio work and I think I might be sliding ever so slightly out of focus as I make the shot. Or maybe I just need to use the tripod, each and every time.
Catherine
If you had an image with the EXIF information attached we could tell if you needed to use a tripod or not.
I’d be suprised if a 50mm lens was going out of focus until you were aiming it downwards.
I just had to get my Sigma 70-300 “tightened”. I was looking at some of my shots
that I had taken with the lens and there was something slightly off with them.
I brought the shots to a pro who immediatly said you need your lense tightened.
I got it done and the lense is fine now.It’s inevitable that a lens will “wear” after a certain amount of use. It is, after all, a mechanical device and anywhere that you’ve got moving parts you’re bound to get some wear where those moving parts meet. If it’s a plastic bodied lens such as the Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II, then the wear is probably going to happen sooner than it would with a metal bodied lens. It’s such a cheap lens that I think the best thing might just be to chuck it out and buy a new one. That’s certainly what I intend to do when my EF 50mm f/1.8 gives up the ghost.
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