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<blockquote data-quote="skater" data-source="post: 239336" data-attributes="member: 19158">Hi, all.&nbsp; First time poster here... I'm hoping to get some advice on taking pictures with my D7000 at hockey games.&nbsp; I'm just not getting the correct focus in a lot of my pictures.&nbsp; For example, the autofocus is set dead center of this picture, with the lower part of the Caps logo on his jersey, but as you can see it looks like the camera actually focused on the Greene Turtle logo in the background.&nbsp; (I loaded this picture into Aperture then exported it as a JPG - I didn't do any correction/cropping/etc. to it.)<img src="http://rjmarq.org/photo_album/badfocus/D7K_2553.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />I'm using the AF-S DX VR Zoom-Nikkor 55-200mm f/4-5.6G IF-ED lens.&nbsp; The camera is mostly on manual - ISO 1600, focal length 160 mm, f/5.3, 1/250, no flash.&nbsp; I have it on AF-C with a single spot, and spot metering.I've tried playing with a couple settings, such as:Focus tracking with lock-on - set to offCenter-weighted area - 6mmThere was no difference in the pictures that I could spot.It doesn't look to me like the lack of focus on the player is the result of his movement, but maybe I'm wrong.&nbsp; I would really appreciate any suggestions you have to improve the focus issue.&nbsp; Thanks in advance!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="skater, post: 239336, member: 19158"] Hi, all. First time poster here... I'm hoping to get some advice on taking pictures with my D7000 at hockey games. I'm just not getting the correct focus in a lot of my pictures. For example, the autofocus is set dead center of this picture, with the lower part of the Caps logo on his jersey, but as you can see it looks like the camera actually focused on the Greene Turtle logo in the background. (I loaded this picture into Aperture then exported it as a JPG - I didn't do any correction/cropping/etc. to it.) [IMG]http://rjmarq.org/photo_album/badfocus/D7K_2553.jpg[/IMG] I'm using the AF-S DX VR Zoom-Nikkor 55-200mm f/4-5.6G IF-ED lens. The camera is mostly on manual - ISO 1600, focal length 160 mm, f/5.3, 1/250, no flash. I have it on AF-C with a single spot, and spot metering. I've tried playing with a couple settings, such as: Focus tracking with lock-on - set to off Center-weighted area - 6mm There was no difference in the pictures that I could spot. It doesn't look to me like the lack of focus on the player is the result of his movement, but maybe I'm wrong. I would really appreciate any suggestions you have to improve the focus issue. Thanks in advance! [/QUOTE]

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