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D7000 AF Focus Issue? AF fine tune?
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<blockquote data-quote="ryanwphotography" data-source="post: 108490" data-attributes="member: 12620"><p><strong>D7000 AF Focus Issue? AF fine tune? Fixed??</strong></p><p></p><p>Ok I'm not here to complain or bring down the D7000 in any way shape or form. I'm saying this for anyone looking at this camera to possibly buy, this is an excellent DSLR as are all Nikon DSLRs. And you would be very happy with it.</p><p></p><p>Ok so now that the disclaimer is out of the way, I am just wondering if anyone else has had this issue. When I bought me D7k I had a lot of trouble with the AF not being sharp. I tried everything I knew to do to get sharp images short of sending the camera back to Nikon for repair. I did a bit of research and started playing with the AF fine tune. Now I know a lot of people say never play with that unless you know what your doing. In my mind, If Nikon put it there then I should be able to play with it. So I downloaded a focus test chart and went to it! And now my shots are a lot sharper than they used to be. It's not perfect but it is worlds ahead of what it was before. I had to do this to both of my lenses. As much as -17 on my 50mm. Everyone told me that It was user related issue and I was doing something wrong, and in most cases it is. But I think this is an exception.I found that using live veiw was tack sharp but using the veiw finder wasn't. But I think I have them pretty close now.</p><p></p><p><strong>So my question is, Has anyone else had this issue? Have you been frustrated like me?</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong>Here are a few shots I took to compare Live veiw and veiw finder before I adjusted AF fine tune.</p><p>[ATTACH]25491[/ATTACH][ATTACH]25492[/ATTACH][ATTACH]25493[/ATTACH][ATTACH]25494[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ryanwphotography, post: 108490, member: 12620"] [b]D7000 AF Focus Issue? AF fine tune? Fixed??[/b] Ok I'm not here to complain or bring down the D7000 in any way shape or form. I'm saying this for anyone looking at this camera to possibly buy, this is an excellent DSLR as are all Nikon DSLRs. And you would be very happy with it. Ok so now that the disclaimer is out of the way, I am just wondering if anyone else has had this issue. When I bought me D7k I had a lot of trouble with the AF not being sharp. I tried everything I knew to do to get sharp images short of sending the camera back to Nikon for repair. I did a bit of research and started playing with the AF fine tune. Now I know a lot of people say never play with that unless you know what your doing. In my mind, If Nikon put it there then I should be able to play with it. So I downloaded a focus test chart and went to it! And now my shots are a lot sharper than they used to be. It's not perfect but it is worlds ahead of what it was before. I had to do this to both of my lenses. As much as -17 on my 50mm. Everyone told me that It was user related issue and I was doing something wrong, and in most cases it is. But I think this is an exception.I found that using live veiw was tack sharp but using the veiw finder wasn't. But I think I have them pretty close now. [B]So my question is, Has anyone else had this issue? Have you been frustrated like me? [/B]Here are a few shots I took to compare Live veiw and veiw finder before I adjusted AF fine tune. [ATTACH=CONFIG]25491._xfImport[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]25492._xfImport[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]25493._xfImport[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]25494._xfImport[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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