So if you are friends with my first of two facebook accounts then you saw me go through quite an ordeal this week trying to figure out why ALL of my horizontal photos were completely out of focus. I mean ALL of them. I have been noticing that it had been getting worse and worse and so I would start shooting my sessions at 3.5-5.6 instead of the usual 1.6-2.8. I was bound and determined to figure it all out and so I called Canon. They told me to shoot at f/8 for the clearest picture. This just would not do! I pretty much started a riot on my facebook wall about the Canon v. Nikon debate with the focusing issue and realized that a ton of other people were having the same problems. I mean, my photos were COMPLETELY fuzzed. I was ticked and couldn't stop until I found the answer to my problem. I loaded up a cart on bhphotovideo.com with Nikon gear and just about hit submit. I decided to call Canon again and speak with a CPS guy and after talking with him for about 30 minutes he mentioned what might be the problem. He said that I was viewing the images in Bridge and that my cache might need to be cleaned out. I felt like such a dummy. I opened a photo that I thought was completely blurred and out of focus and once it was open (not in ACR, but into the actual PS application) it was crystal clear. I was ecstatic! I almost sold off $15K in Canon gear over this issue.
Thank you Canon. In the meanwhile, I decided to sell off 5 of my lenses (I own almost every Canon lens made and hardly use them all) to buy the 50mm 2.5 macro and the momma lens of them all, the 85mm 1.2. I found a wonderful person who was willing to make a trade and this morning I had my hands on a buttery, awesome, crystal clear 85mm! Who else could I take photos of other than my boy, Sol?
If you are having this problem, then clear your cache, you aren't going crazy when you see your photos out of focus in Bridge! Canon still rocks my world and I'm really glad about it.
Sol's eyes are AMAZINGLY blue!! What a cutie!!!
(10.01.11 @ 12:45 PM)