My Lens

I have a lens that I love. It is a Canon 50mm 1.4. I love it. It was a gift from a dear friend of mine, Maranda. I cherish the lens, but about 6 weeks ago it stopped working in auto focus mode. At first I thought my entire camera was broken. Then I figured out it was just the lens, but without the lens the camera might as well be broken. Then I figured out that it would work in manual focus but not auto focus. I have tried getting comfortable working in Manual Focus mode but this is really hard when you are trying to take pictures of kids on the go. Forget focus!!! I was getting comfortable shooting in manual focus, if I was taking pictures of leaves and stuff. Forget the kids. My friend Maranda did some research and come to find out that it is a common flaw in those lens. They will stop working for no reason out of the blue, but then it also starts working out of the blue. I have periodically checked it to see if it started working again, and it never would. So I drove down to Ritz and was about to just buy a different lens. I did not have the $$ at the time to replace the 1.4 so I was just going to get the 1.8. I had my camera with me and was sitting in my car in front of Ritz and checked it one more time and Wow....it started working. What a blessing. We all know where these blessings come from. So my camera lens works again and I celebrated by taking some pics of Delana...in tu tu's of coarse.