Canon 50mm f/1.8 - How to tell is USA or Imported

[throbinson]

I just bought this lens from B+H Photo and it arrived today... sadly had 1

possible 2 issues... first is I can see specs of dust inside the glass that

can't be cleaned so, naturally annoyed and emailed customer service.

 

That aside... on their site the had two lenses, the same specs, execpt one is

listed as Imported and the other USA, and the USA one was about $5 more.

 

I went with the USA lens.

 

I was putting the new lens back into the box and noticed the box says under the

flap "For China Only".... does this mean it's not the USA lens? Is there a way

to look at the lens itself and tell which it is?

[alex_kaufman]

Look at the warranty card... It should say something like Canon USA or Canon USA/Canada

[bobatkins]

Well it doesn't really matter but USA lenses should come with a Canon USA warranty card.

 

Dust isn't unexpected. It's a cheap lens, but even if it was an "L" series zoom, it's likely you'd see some dust. Dust really doesn't do anything much except annoy the user.

[throbinson]

Ah card says USA/CAN on it....

 

And I wondered about the spec... cheap lens but new so was suprised to see it... wasn't sure if would affect the image or not... took a few shots but, someone with a keener eye may see what I don't.

[throbinson]

My main concern dust wise, was that 1 spec seems pretty big... well, guess I'll see what the CS says... had a few issues with my order.

[jimstrutz]

Dust is normal in new lenses. Even if it wasn't it wouldn't be long before dust would be inside anyway. You would have to get an awful lot of it in there to make a difference to the image.

[throbinson]

Thanks for the info... saw a few posts on google saying the same but wanted to get the Photo.net opinion as well... happy to finally have a decent prime and didn't want to have to send it back already. :)