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<blockquote data-quote="eliotlovell" data-source="post: 32304" data-attributes="member: 7861">Thanks for your reply.Unfortunately, having carefully tested further, the AF on the camera is not giving consistent results even with indoor daylight –*it will often focus behind my selected focus point. Also, when I've had the AF light switched on, the camera usually focusses behind the point I've selected. I'd have thought the purpose of this light was to enable the camera to get the correct AF point when the ambient light is too low :-/This is the second D7000 body I've had, the first being exchanged after the shop checked and verified focus errors. I've used a 5D with a 35mm f1.4 for many years in the same lighting situations with , and I'm finding the AF errors on this body to be too significant to ignore. I think it will be going to Nikon for repair, but if this is just the limitations of the AF system, then I'll have to change to a different body with more consistently accurate AF. Am I right in thinking the D300s or D700 have more robust AF?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="eliotlovell, post: 32304, member: 7861"] Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately, having carefully tested further, the AF on the camera is not giving consistent results even with indoor daylight –*it will often focus behind my selected focus point. Also, when I've had the AF light switched on, the camera usually focusses behind the point I've selected. I'd have thought the purpose of this light was to enable the camera to get the correct AF point when the ambient light is too low :-/ This is the second D7000 body I've had, the first being exchanged after the shop checked and verified focus errors. I've used a 5D with a 35mm f1.4 for many years in the same lighting situations with , and I'm finding the AF errors on this body to be too significant to ignore. I think it will be going to Nikon for repair, but if this is just the limitations of the AF system, then I'll have to change to a different body with more consistently accurate AF. Am I right in thinking the D300s or D700 have more robust AF? [/QUOTE]

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