Back focus problem on D7000 bought in Spain (No International Warranty)

[westmill]

Ouch ! I would have declared war on Spain at that point lol
Its a beautiful city indeed. I loved the Cathedral and that famous street ( name as left me lol ) was wicked.
Appart from the pain of having to carry my gear everywhere, the only other pain was if we whent out of the hotel
drinking, I had to stay sober, because I went with three girls. I just clocked a few guys that l susspected were roling
drunks. Next day, there had indeed been reports of drunks being roled.
I remember driving past the stadium on the way to some where or other. I never paid much atention as Ive never
had much intrest in football. Went to Tenneriffe the following year... much better lol.
My fave place is Paphos in Cyprus though.

 

[Marcel]

Ouch ! <snip "I loved the Cathedral and that famous street ( name as left me lol ) was wicked." snip>

That street is called the "Rambla".

 

[westmill]

That street is called the "Rambla".

Haha,... Thanks Marcel... Thats the one. Glad you told me... Ive been sat here wracking my head trying to remember lol.
I took a fair few pics there and in the market. A bit of a street photographers dream isnt it lol.

 

[Marcel]

Haha,... Thanks Marcel... Thats the one. Glad you told me... Ive been sat here wracking my head trying to remember lol.
I took a fair few pics there and in the market. A bit of a street photographers dream isnt it lol.

Yes, Barcelona is a great photogenic city. But there are thieves there, and they are organized. I saw a guy get mugged and there was nothing he could have done. They were about 8 and it happened so fast it was unbelievable.
But the architecture, the parks, I still remember the nice shots I took there.

Actually, I was able to do quite a few good shots from the top of the city tout bus. Now window on top so the view was great.

 

[pistnbroke]

the simple thing to do would be to photograph the ruler as I explained earlier and print that ....then you and they can see and not argue about the problem...if the centre of focus is about 4 in out on the ruler the internal adjustment will fix it ..if over no ...remember it is not true back focus that you are adjusting but where the autofocus tells it to focus....the subject must be in focus but so must the image on the sensor ....

 

[zmijasu2k3]

I will keep that in mind. Still waiting to hear back from nikon after sending sample pictures.

 

[Phillydog1958]

I will keep that in mind. Still waiting to hear back from nikon after sending sample pictures.

Give them time. They do respond to emails. I've sent several. It took about 10 days before I got a response.

 

[zmijasu2k3]

Just thought I would post an update.

I dropped off the camera at nikon service. As far as I can tell it will cost me roughly 50 bucks to get it calibrated. Still in "The Shop".

I asked they guy at the counter if they see lots of "back focus" problems, he tells me it is common, the focusing needs to be fine tuned. I told that I don't want them to just use the built in Fine Tune functionality of the camera as it is not a true fix because it is per lens. I told him that obviously this is a body issue and I don't want to have to fine tune the body for each lens I have. He said, "this is technology, this is how it works". I basically told him I don't agree with what he is saying.

I thought he took personal offense, even though my beef is not with him. Anyway, I hope they fix it properly. I read in some forums that some people, when they got their camera back from service, still had some focus issues but less.

I used my old D40 this weekend and it takes much better/sharper pictures than my D7000 did. Amazing that nikon doesn't just do a recall or something.

 

[pistnbroke]

I think you are getting up tight about this and not thinking straight...Its not true back focus just adjusting the focus point and to be able to get this right for each lens is a bonus as it takes out tolerances.
You will not get sharp pictures unless you adjust the sharpness setting in the menu ..I use +9 and the contrast +1 and of course you can do this for each lens....Maybe your head is too old for this technologhy leap and you would be happier with scanned film. We shoot thousands of shots a week on two D7000 with no problem.

 

[zmijasu2k3]

I think you are getting up tight about this and not thinking straight...Its not true back focus just adjusting the focus point and to be able to get this right for each lens is a bonus as it takes out tolerances.
You will not get sharp pictures unless you adjust the sharpness setting in the menu ..I use +9 and the contrast +1 and of course you can do this for each lens....Maybe your head is too old for this technologhy leap and you would be happier with scanned film. We shoot thousands of shots a week on two D7000 with no problem.

Maybe it is OK for you to have to adjust sharpness on every lens, it is not for me. I do understand that some fine tuning might be necessary to achieve best results. But in my case the focus issues were unacceptable and too blurry, etc. If Nikon is selling their cameras with kit lens, let it be calibrated for this lens properly, but Nikon even failed to do that. If Nikon is advertising their cameras to be the best without screwing around with settings, than that's what I expect to get. If they had mentioned that I have to be fine tuning focus for every lens I have, I would not buy this camera. Note that I don't mind playing with the camera, adjusting various settings to get desired effects and quality, i just should not be expected to do it to get decent results.

Maybe your head is so far up Nikon's butt, it's time to take it out and stop posting stupid comments.

 

[pistnbroke]

Come on wake up how many lenses do you have ..you talk as if you have 50 and are buying new ones all the time and spending your life doing menu work.....most people have say 5 or less and having each dead on is a bonus.
The D7000 is great but lets have a 24 mp D7200 !!!!