Imaging recource: 50mm fraud! Canon warns users against fake 50mm f/1.8 lenses as counterfeits appear at service centers

    Canon is warning users that they might be using counterfeit lenses. Canon’s service center has seen a number of EF 50mm f/1.8 II lenses that are not genuine Canon products, despite looking almost exactly like the real deal lens, at least externally. Fortunately, if you take the lens off your camera, you can tell if it’s authentic or not. If you look at the mount of the lens and read the “Canon Inc.” text, the genuine product has a space between “Canon” and “Inc.,” but the counterfeit optic does not. You can see this is in the...
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