The death of my Canon 50 mm f 1.8 lens

You would hope that your lens would look like this when not in use;

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But unfortunately this (below) is how your 50 mm f 1.8 Canon lens may look like once you take thousands of pictures using it.

One day I heard a weird noise and all of a sudden the middle portion of the lens fell off its main structure.

The lens lasted something around 4 years and I certainly took more than 10 thousand pictures using it.

BTW, the picture below was taken using my new Canon 50mm f1.8 which I hope will generate as many good pictures as its predecessor.



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Canon 5D officially announced

Canon has officially announced the 5D Camera which will sell for aproximately US$ 3.5K and that will offer a full frame sensor and 12.8 megapixel as its main features.

Sample pictures and Specifications are available at Canon's Japanese Web site.

There's also some information at Canon's North American Site.