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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nikonkelly" data-source="post: 49212" data-attributes="member: 9183">I am new to the forum, and just getting my feet wet trying to find my way around here.  I have been shooting a DSLR since April of 2005, and average about 25,000/yr.  President of 2 photo clubs, and moderate/own several yahoo Nikon groups.  I replaced my D200 on November 17th, 2010 with a D7000.  It seemed like a logical move getting more resolution, low light capability, but sacrificing some of the pro features of the D200.  My first shoot with the D7000 was about 1000 images of Sand Hill Cranes.  The images were great, high ISO was what I had hoped for and them some... however, by the first week of December, I was finding that the camera was back focusing in the worst way.  When I was only 5 feet from my subject, the focus point was 2 feet behind my subject when using the 35-70 F2.8 AF-D.... upon further looking all of my lenses reflected some degree of back focus.  At first, as much as I knew that it was a camera issue, I tried to blame it on user error, and to some extent, I had some of the settings messed up so that I was not consistently getting bad focus, but much of the time.  Took a 12 day trip to Disney World, and had a ton of back focused images, especially at f2.8 as one would expect with an issue of this sort.  Upon returning home, I had the camera cleaned at a Photo show in Detroit, and asked about back focus issues with The D7000.  The Nikon repairman indicated that they had very few issues with the D7000's and this was not a known issue, however He suggested that I have the camera checked to see if it was properly aligned.  Because the camera was so new, they had not yet had the Nikon "GOD BODIES" in yet and this took several weeks to get them.  Once they had their equipment calibrated, they called me, I took my camera down and about 45 minutes later I had a perfectly focusing D7000.  Today, I find that the focus is very exact and I am very happy.Very few people that I have spoken with in person or on the many different forums, have indicated any problems with the D7000, In fact, I only personally know of 2 people who have had actual issues with the D7000 out of over 225 D7000 users. That is less than 1% which is pretty normal for problems.  This does not mean that there are not problems out there, but they are not as wide spread as some would have us believe, and I know that these issues exist... I was one of them.  I had my camera repaired at an authorized Nikon repair place in Wyandotte Michigan... I don't work for them, but they have done all of my repair work since 1970... yes I was only 13 years old at that time, but I have been very happy with their work over the years.  It helps that they are only about an hour and a half away from where I live so I can call them up, take the camera to them and wait for it, and that too keeps me coming back.  For anyone having issues, I think that you owe it to yourself and your camera to have it repaired... if it is out of warrantee, the price for mine would have been $180.  which is not too bad, but since it was not yet a year old it was No Charge.  Just thought that there needed to be some balance to this thread... are there some issues, yes a few, but not many, and if you send the camera in to be fixed, most of the time they will get it the first time... although some may have to do it twice... just like you need to do with your car when you have it fixed... most of the time they get it right the first time, but not always, and that does not mean that it is a bad car or a bad camera, just that the technician did not get it right the first time.NikonKelly<a href="http://www.nikonkelly.com" target="_blank">Rev. Kelly Todd's Photo Galleries at pbase.com</a></blockquote>

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