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<blockquote data-quote="brady" data-source="post: 121722" data-attributes="member: 13200">I purchased a D7000 in Dec. 2012 and recently have been &quot;challenged&quot; to get the&nbsp; focus tack sharp.&nbsp; I noticed it particularly after coming back&nbsp; from a portrait shoot yesterday where none of the images seemed to be&nbsp; &quot;tack&quot; sharp.&nbsp; Thinking it might be operator error or a lens issue, I&nbsp; went out this morning and shot a control subject with all my lenses at&nbsp; multiple f/ stops.&nbsp; I did this on both my new D7000 and my old, old&nbsp; D80.&nbsp; The D80 images were consistently sharper for every shot.&nbsp; Both&nbsp; cameras were shooting in RAW mode at ISO 100, single, center focus point and AF-S.&nbsp; I've reviewed them in both LightRoom and View NX2.I'm aware of the &quot;AF Fine Tune&quot; on the D7000, and created a fine tune profile for one of the lenses, but it still seems like the images coming from the D80 are sharper.Any suggestions on how to confirm this and quantitatively identify the problem?&nbsp; I can imagine the response I would get from Nikon -- similar to what I would get if I took my car into the dealership and said it was making an odd sound occasionally -- &quot;We checked it out and couldn't find a problem ... everything is operating within specs, yada, yada, yada ...&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="brady, post: 121722, member: 13200"] I purchased a D7000 in Dec. 2012 and recently have been "challenged" to get the focus tack sharp. I noticed it particularly after coming back from a portrait shoot yesterday where none of the images seemed to be "tack" sharp. Thinking it might be operator error or a lens issue, I went out this morning and shot a control subject with all my lenses at multiple f/ stops. I did this on both my new D7000 and my old, old D80. The D80 images were consistently sharper for every shot. Both cameras were shooting in RAW mode at ISO 100, single, center focus point and AF-S. I've reviewed them in both LightRoom and View NX2. I'm aware of the "AF Fine Tune" on the D7000, and created a fine tune profile for one of the lenses, but it still seems like the images coming from the D80 are sharper. Any suggestions on how to confirm this and quantitatively identify the problem? I can imagine the response I would get from Nikon -- similar to what I would get if I took my car into the dealership and said it was making an odd sound occasionally -- "We checked it out and couldn't find a problem ... everything is operating within specs, yada, yada, yada ..." [/QUOTE]

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