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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BackdoorArts" data-source="post: 133465" data-attributes="member: 9240"><p>Funny that you should mentioned this, but I was in a Scott Kelby workshop yesterday and he mentioned this lens specifically as one that people talk about having "focus issues".  What he said is that the narrow DoF on lenses like this (and other 1.4 but no so much with 1.8 lenses) means that they demand to be treated differently.  Many photographers, himself included, are in the habit of establishing focus in the center of the frame and then reframing the shot while holding the shutter button down halfway (I do it too).  Because the dof is so narrow, even minor reframing will cause focus shift.  With these lenses he was saying it's mandatory to frame first and move your focus point over top of subject and then focus and shoot.</p></blockquote><p></p>