[agilepixels]

Weather sealing and better plastic of L-lens is worth usually ~$100-$150 (according to several references) and majority of the price difference is in glass and corresponding assembly and verification process at the factory.

Most of the high-end L-glass have mostly manually controlled assembly and testing process. So, here's the price...

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Nikita Ivanov.
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[WerySmart]

Сообщение от agilepixels

Most of the high-end L-glass have mostly manually controlled assembly and testing process. So, here's the price...


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They suppoused to be, of course. But do they really?

I have explored several 50/1.4 which are quate expensive, and suppoused to be adequately good made, and all of them did have the foulty AF foucusing.